Gutterrats

Gutterats is a gang-based fantasy heist game, so it shares a lot of DNA with products like Blades in the Dark and Doratka. It is set in a city called Freeport so you might spot another influence there.

The game is written in an kind of intense shorthand that I found a little hard to follow. But there are quite a few interesting ideas here.

There’s a neat little location table for navigating around the city and moving from your safehouse and the location for the heist (as well as returning back with the loot). The target for the heist is based on your gang reputation so it starts close and ends up being further away with a longer journey there and back.

I also quite like how a lowest fail drives stat improvement.

There’s a lot going on here and I’d like to see or create an expanded version that was a bit easier to parse.