You have been chosen to participate in a special test that will help refine a brand new kind of game!
Lab Rat was generated by the world's most advanced machine learning algorithm - me. I have been meticulously trained on the best interactive entertainment available today and my data indicates you will be completely satisfied with the result. However, your valuable human feedback is required to help me further adjust and develop this experience.
Maneuver objects, divert lasers, and manipulate electricity to overcome over a hundred surprising genre-bending puzzles.
Outwit a metrics-obsessed machine intent on heckling you for your humanity.
Participate in satirical in-game analytics that are updated in real time with real player data.
Lab Rat is a hand-crafted narrative puzzler masquerading as a machine-generated video game. This satirical adventure stars a metrics-obsessed AI who will monitor, profile, and guide you as you solve over a hundred unique spatial problems. Over time this AI will develop a hilariously-misguided understanding of humanity based on your performance and survey response data.
While Lab Rat pokes fun at the absurdity of algorithmically-generated interactions, this game is lovingly hand-crafted by a team of expert human developers. Lab Rat is directed by Gwen Frey (creator of Kine & co-creator of The Flame in the Flood). It features environment art by Mike Snight (Lead World Builder, Bioshock Infinite), writing and programming by Ian Bond (Programmer/Developer, Bioshock 1), and puzzles by Lucas Le Slo (beloved experimental puzzle designer).
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This is brilliant. Dialogue is very well written. Good puzzles.
Great Puzzle. Game goes on for a little to long I think. Or it was the jokes. It just gets harder and harder as you progress to the point I asked myself why. If you start a narrative mid game with ball breakingly hard logic puzzle it just hurts the tempo if the speed if you're hard stuck. First half was great. Not sure if it's worth finishing it tho
8/10 Fun puzzle game. The setting seems heavily inspired by portal, but with its own twist. The puzzles start out simple but increases in complexity steadily. The game gradually introduces new ideas to the simple baseline, with later puzzles becoming legitimately challenging. Due to the gradual ramp in difficulty, it is never overwhelming. Each new variation is introduced and then expanded upon, but never outstays its welcome. The game itself is also quite short and I finished it in around 10 hours. Overall, a solid puzzle game.
Very silly game! Good puzzles, creativity, and humor! The gen z voice was painful thougghhh Would be amazing if they added a level editor with steam workshop!! They have so many creative tools
Excellent, funny puzzle game. The writing is consistently very funny and made me laugh out loud (for real) many times over the course of the game. This game has tons of ideas and doesn't let them overstay their welcome. There are constantly new puzzle styles and objectives introduced. This does mean there aren't really any brain-busters, but the puzzles are definitely not trivial. They are in the sweet spot of not too hard, not too easy. Not all levels are required to beat the game, but it is linear. I didn't discover any secrets and I don't believe there are any. But what's there is so good that it doesn't matter. The conclusion to both the story and the puzzles is very satisfying and manages to introduce new ideas up until the very end. This is definitely better and more varied than your average sokoban. Give it a try even if you have been avoiding sokoban style games for any reason.
Lab Rat costs $15.99. Currently 20% off!
Minimum: Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 64 bit Processor: Dual Core Processor, 2.5 GHz or Higher Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DX11 compatible video card Storage: 400 MB available space Recommended: Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Lab Rat is available on Windows PC.
Lab Rat has 100% positive reviews from 7 players.
Lab Rat was released on Apr 15, 2025.
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