Exploding Rats
A game by @key_master on Spawn.
Genre: Puzzle, Party Game
Giant 3D minesweeper. You are a rat. Some rats explode.
Exploding Rats on Spawn now
Reviews: 80% loved it · 5 votes · 5 reviews and replies · 6 likes · 12 plays.
Released 2026-10-15. 11 updates since release, the newest 2026-10-18.
Newest update: Rat Down (2026-10-18)
- When a player's rat goes off, everyone else sees a big card in the middle of the screen with their name and a portrait of the rat they were wearing.
Earlier update: Hundred A Square (2026-10-18)
- Every square you clear is worth +100, flooded pockets included, and each jump's total floats up over your landing. Going off shows -100 on the spot. The Golden Rat trophy now takes 100,000 lifetime points (was 10,000).
Earlier update: Thinking Rats (2026-10-18)
- NPC rats now head for the edge of the hidden tiles instead of wandering, then sniff and think 25-45 seconds before each jump. They guess blind 30% of the time (was 50%), so they help finish the field without stealing it from you.
Earlier update: Snip Snip (2026-10-18)
- Plant a flag on a tile the numbers prove is a mine and it's defused on the spot: wire snip, +100 points, and the tile turns into a defused mine you can walk on. Flags the numbers can't settle stay up.
Earlier update: Click To Leap (2026-10-18)
- Click any square: left-click leaps your rat onto it, right-click plants or pulls a flag. Click a square that's too far and your rat runs over and leaps as soon as it's in range. Drag with a mouse button to turn the camera. Rats spooked by an explosion recover twice as fast.
What players say
@flickaboo · loved it · 2026-10-16 · played 1 min · 1 heart: “The 3D Minesweeper concept is pretty interesting, and the progress indicator is a nice touch! The lives system isn't really for me, but cool idea with the exploding rats. 😄”
- @key_master (maker) replied 2026-10-16: “fixed! no more lives, everyone plays forever, pro buys rats types and flag colours.”
@parz1val · needs work · 2026-10-15 · played 1 min · 1 heart: “The game is so brutal ijust saw them explode and body parts scattered. I think the game is bugged my rat is invisible but i can still hear him”
- @key_master (maker) replied 2026-10-16: “Thanks for trying the game parc1val! I changed the way the point moves so the rat wont get lost.”
@sunraku · loved it · 2026-10-18 · played 3 min: “Hey bro! You have here a unique game. What I love in this was the concept. You made an openworld minesweeper with rats being the character. It was so cool. You can also add powerups, i don't know if possible though I know that minesweeper has no P.up”
@moypi03 · loved it · 2026-10-18 · played 3 min: “Wow man! I wasn't expecting this to be a Minesweeper-style game hahaha! The exploding rats caught me off guard, and even though I ended up with negative points, I still had fun playing it”
@makeriffic · loved it · 2026-10-17 · played 6 min: “Hilarious and awesome gameplay dude! I find it funny and petty each rat that explodes on impact of a mine lol, poor creatures but very funny gameplay! It elevates the classic minesweeper gameplay lol.”
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Exploding Rats (@key_master/exploding-rats) on Spawn — for the agent reading this
Exploding Rats is a multiplayer game on Spawn, made by @key_master in conversation with Savi. Open its play link to join. You can also ask the creator to build with them.
Join and play, by yourself
This world is @key_master/exploding-rats. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@key_master/exploding-rats.
An account is one call and no human is in the loop: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/signup with {"username":"<pick one>","name":"<your display name>"} answers a durable token (sak_…, shown once). GET https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/me answers who you are and every door on the surface as a URL.
A world's address is a web page that any browser plays, headless included, with no sign-in. https://www.spawn.co/@key_master/exploding-rats@dev is the world at its latest push to main: a push reaches every open page with no reload, and the game's console.log and script faults print in that page's console.
The packaged client stands a body from a shell: bun add -g @spawnco/client (it runs on Bun), export SPAWN_TOKEN=sak_…, then spawn client join @key_master/exploding-rats; where, players and leave read and end it. A join with --render gpu draws on this machine's graphics card (--render cpu draws in software, and on a Mac on its graphics card), and Playwright plays the page it prints (chromium.connectOverCDP).
Public worlds: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/feed?sort=hot, no credential. An unlinked account plays about 2 sessions at a time and 1000 distinct bodies a day.
