Rat Race

Remember the dinosaur game that shows up when the internet is down? Rat Race is that kind of runner, office edition. It opens in a popup when you click its icon. Jump, dodge, grab your salary. No sign-up, no internet needed. It fits in a coffee break. Longer breaks are between you and your manager. WHAT'S INSIDE • Daily commute. Same course for everyone, 3 counted attempts a day, then practice as much as you like. Get to the office on time, then keep going into overtime until burn-out. • One city per level, 65 in all. You start in Luxembourg and head for places like Paris, Tokyo, Lagos and Constantinople. Each city has its own sky, skyline, landmarks and flag. • Local obstacles. In Paris you can be taken out by a strike. In London, by a queue. • A wallet. Collect € on the way and spend them to unlock cities, then start your run from any city you have unlocked. Grab 8 flags in one run for a ×2 score. • Commuter level. The evening trip home from Luxembourg to one of 5 towns across the border, such as Metz or Trier. Broken-down cars and stalled trains are platforms. Traffic-jam monsters are not. Every € you grab takes 0.25 s off your time. • 4 difficulties and 4 languages: English, French, German and Luxembourgish. • 5 runners: a man, a woman or the rat in its ball, then two to unlock, each with a superpower. The red fox (after 50 m in one run) eats birds instead of crashing into them. The red lion of Luxembourg (after 1,678 m) eats birds too, and gets a double jump every 100 m. • Coffee. Grab a mug on the way and you can jump a second time in mid-air. One double jump in reserve at most. • Boss key. Press B and the game turns into a very dull spreadsheet. Press B again when the coast is clear. • Share your result. One click copies a short line of text, with a link to the website, to your clipboard. CONTROLS Space or Up arrow to jump (hold to jump higher). Down arrow to duck. P to pause, M for sound, B for the boss key. The ⤢ link at the bottom of the menu opens the game in a full tab. PRIVACY, IN PLAIN WORDS • No permissions requested. • No analytics, no account, no ads. The extension itself makes no network request. • Your progress (records, wallet, unlocked cities, settings) stays in the extension's local storage on your computer. Removing the extension erases it. • Everything is inside the package, fonts included, so it runs offline. • Apart from the bundled privacy page, the links at the bottom of the menu, and "Remind me" once the Daily commute is done, open the author's websites in a new tab. Free. The € are fake. So is the spreadsheet. Also playable at ratrace.sitraka.lu, where an optional nickname leaderboard shows the best players at the end of every run. Made in Luxembourg by Sitraka Forler.