{"rewrite":{"id":"r_9b6c900ab70bb08dc14974a6","clusterId":"c_40c0fc0b51368fbb1941c3da","slug":"all-rats-on-deck-co-op-steamboat-game-announced-for-q4-2026","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"All Rats on Deck Co-Op Steamboat Game Announced for Q4 2026","summary":"Loopr Partners and developer Twin Beacon Studio announced the co-op adventure game All Rats on Deck for PC via Steam in Q4 2026. Players control rats driven from their swamp home who pilot a steamboat built from scrap toward the open sea. The game supports online co-op for up to four players and includes proximity voice chat. Crews split tasks: steering, repairing damage, fighting fires, and gathering materials. The ship carries a detachable boat grapple gun that can pull the vessel toward fixed objects, grab distant materials, pick up friends, or move rocks and activate mechanisms. Fuel must be fed continuously to the engine, and the game allows anything to be used as fuel, though some materials cause side effects or explosions. Twin Beacon Studio is a Netherlands-based indie studio founded in February 2026, and All Rats on Deck is its first game. A demo is planned for Steam Next Fest in October 2026. As of the store page, the game does not list Japanese among its supported languages.","whyItMatters":"The announcement trailer and store page place the game alongside the recent Friendslop trend of chaotic cooperative games, and the fuel system's explosion risk makes friendly sabotage part of the core loop.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eDevelopment began with the \u0026#34;Friendslop\u0026#34; trend in mind, according to Automaton. The game lets players throw materials at frogs that prey on rats and includes a stamina gauge, rat appearance customization, and emotes.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Steam store page lists all of the following as key features:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4-player co-op: team up with three friends\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaintain and pilot the steamboat: run a makeshift ship through the swamp\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eResourceful rat crew: pick up whatever you find and put it to use\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnything can fuel the engine: throw random items in to move the ship\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplore dangerous waters: avoid obstacles and unpredictable environments\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrapple gun: mounted on the ship to help with movement\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProximity voice chat: talk with friends when together or apart\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChaotic co-op experience: improvise solutions to problems\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwin Beacon Studio is based in the Netherlands and was founded in February 2026. According to LinkedIn, four students majoring in game technology are developing it. Loopr Partners announced the game on September 29 and opened the store page alongside a trailer, though Denfaminicogamer gives the date as September 28.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Anything can go in the engine of All Rats on Deck, including things that explode. The co-op steamboat game from Twin Beacon Studio heads to Steam in Q4 2026.","twitterPost":"Twin Beacon Studio is four game technology students in the Netherlands, founded in February 2026, and All Rats on Deck is their first game. Four-player rat steamboat co-op hits Steam in Q4 2026.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Loopr Partners and Twin Beacon Studio announced All Rats on Deck, a four-player co-op game about rats piloting a scrap steamboat toward the sea. You can throw anything into the engine as fuel, but some of it explodes. 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