Rat Zoomies

Your rat has the zoomies. Tap to leap across our shelves and hides, grab the berries, and see how far you get before you land in the hay.

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Every shelf and hide in the game is a real piece from our shop, made for real rats. Run past one to add it here.

How to play Rat Zoomies

  1. Tap to jump. Your rat runs by itself. Tap the game, click it or press Space to jump. Hold for a bigger leap, let go early for a little hop.
  2. Jump again in the air. Tap once more mid-leap for a second jump. Use it to stretch a short leap or to save a jump that went wrong.
  3. Grab the berries. Blueberries are worth 5 points and raspberries 25. Collect them close together for a berry streak, which doubles and then triples them.
  4. Mind the gaps and the hides. Miss a shelf and your rat lands in the hay. Run into a hide and that's the end of the zoomies, so jump over it or land on top.

The run gets faster the further you go. Landing in the cloud hammock throws your rat high into the air, and the hot air balloon gives you a ride across the widest gaps. On a keyboard, the up arrow jumps too and the down arrow drops you faster. On a phone, swipe down to drop.

Every piece is a real one

Every shelf and hide your rat runs across is a real piece from our shop, made for real rats to climb on and hide in. That includes the strawberry hide, the retro TV hide, the D20 dice hide and the cloud shelves. Each new piece you run past goes into your album under the game, and the album is kept on this device, so it fills up a little more every time you play.

Browse them all: rat hides and houses, rat shelves and ledges and the sweet treat hides.

The Rat Zoomies scoreboard

There is a board for today, this week and all time. Finish a run and your best goes on it, with no sign-up: you get a rat name of your own, and the board only ever shows that name. Sign in with your email if you want to keep your name and scores on every device.

Do rats really get the zoomies?

They do. Happy, playful rats sometimes burst into sudden hops and dashes around their space, which rat owners call popcorning. It looks a lot like a dog's zoomies. You can read more about it, and the other signs of a happy rat, in our guide to rat body language. Shelves and hides at different heights give them somewhere to climb, leap and dash to, and our pet rat care guide covers how to set up their cage.

A free rat running game for your phone or computer

Rat Zoomies is a free rat running game you play online, in your browser, with nothing to download and no sign-up to play. It works on phones, tablets and computers, a run takes a minute or two, and the sound turns off with one tap. Fancy something calmer? Try Rat Pile, where you drop rats into a hammock until it is full.