Malyshka
Explore the village to your heart’s content and meet its inhabitants: from kindly priests to eccentric toy collectors, the community is full of endearing characters to help you on your journey. Engage in their quests to retrieve the mysterious dolls, unearthing the enigma of your lost memories as you help the people of Tikyihavoda with their daily woes. Between puzzles, conferring, errands, and hunts, it all starts to come back to you…your wistful feelings may hold more water than you think.
- Explore
- Investigate
- Throw snowballs
- Chase bunnies
- Uncover the truth
Malyshka is created by fifteen hardworking individuals under the R.A.T. Room collective. Comprised almost entirely of high schoolers, this team dedicated itself to the development of a humble but charming game. Story, art, writing, coding, voice acting, and beyond were shared among its members within the close community that formed over the course of its production. Fifteen art styles, fifteen creative visions, and fifteen minds all come together; overall, Malyshka is a labor of love, and a testament to youthful passion and the desire to grow and create.
The R.A.T. (Really Artistically Talented) Room can be summarized by our group motto: “No think. Wing it.” As a collective, we work in collaboration to create animations, digital art, and video game projects. Our most recent game, titled Malyshka, displays the combined effort of about fifteen individuals who created all of the assets, story, dialogue, music, and programming. We are students, but we create as professionals. We have been able to foster a community full of diversity, inclusion, and creativity through our shared work and learning. Also, our grind doesn’t end when we leave the studio, everyone who is involved is constantly working hard to see our visions through to the end. At our core, the R.A.T. Room operates as a single unit. No one person is responsible for the work, we are a community co-op that is passionate about art and creativity.
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
Since I played ELCTROBASIS I decided to play other titles from Rat Room Games which are on Steam. This is the only one I could find and I must say It's pretty fun game with bunch of different art styles clashing in and nice story. The Easter Eggs got me laughing especially the Intruder Meme in chest behind the Castle and FNAF 2 Balloon Boy crashing your game.
I had great time with this game and I think you should try it too. Go and play it.
Steam User 1
Malyshka is one of those games that has you questioning how it has so little attention. A small easter egg nestled deep within the distant mountains carries an ominous energy until you approach for it to be a small letter from the developers. Run around at your own pace or follow the story and you'll steadily begin to piece together your memory and your Matryoshka doll. The beautiful art style is accompanied by a growing feeling of sorrow and unease with each step you take towards the resolution of your story. Although short the game is filled with lovable and less pleasantly-inclined characters that will have you feeling for the town of Tikhiyavoda right before the game wrenches your heart out of your chest and shatters it. Although I'm known for being relatively soft when it comes to stories of grief it brought me to tears in a way that felt special.
Steam User 0
It was alright.
Steam User 0