Ratopia

Ratopia

Released Apr 2025

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

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Released, but still in active development
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Steam $22.00
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Evaluation

Ratopia officially launched on May 1, 2025, after about a year and a half in Early Access. Since launch, Cassel Games has continued to ship substantial updates at a consistent pace. The developer published a roadmap on August 27, 2025 committing to two minor updates (September 2025 and January 2026, both delivered) and one major content update targeting Summer 2026. That Summer 2026 content update — the Tourism Update (version 1.0.0600) — shipped on July 22, 2026, introducing tourism systems, artifact content, mod support, and numerous quality-of-life improvements. This fulfills the outstanding commitment from the roadmap. As of today (August 26, 2026), no specific future content has been announced. However, the developer has maintained a strong pattern of major updates throughout the game's lifetime: the Scientist Update (March 2024), General Update (June 2024), Halloween Update (November 2024), Shaman Update (January 2025), the 1.0 launch update (May 2025), and the Tourism Update (July 2026). This establishes a sustained pattern of substantial content releases across the game's life. The developer has not announced the end of content development, and the store description continues to describe "more planned." The most recent major release was just one month ago, placing the game squarely within the active development window.
Evidence
Tourism Update (v1.0.0600) shipped, introducing tourism systems with new buildings, artifact content, mod support for leader costumes, diagonal railroad connections, and various QoL improvements.
news post · Jul 22, 2026 source content shipped
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DevDiary #38 announced the upcoming Tourism System update, describing it as 'comparable in scale to DLC' and detailing the design process — confirming active development ahead of the July 2026 release.
news post · Jun 25, 2026 source content shipped
high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Released
Nov 2023

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Cassel Games
Achievements
66
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

The citizens of Ratopia each have their own wealth and unique characteristics.

There is no such thing as a free lunch!

Supply jobs and services for your ratizens to make them all happy.

Make a detailed policy to tax them all!

Shouldn't the people all work tirelessly for more profit?

Create or prevent social disasters with your own policies.

Explore and find the remains of the great old rats.

Bring prosperity to the city through great expeditions.

Some adventures pose the possibility of awaking up apex predators, but who's to worry?

Last evaluated Aug 26, 2026
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