Cyber Rats

Indie· Action· Procedural Generation· Gore

Released Oct 2025

Cute rats in deadly mazes... Cyber Rats is a dark and brutal action game. Escape sadistic horrifying death mazes, Improve your rats with upgrades, and find your way out of this sinister facility.

90% positive · 154 reviews

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Evaluation

Cyber Rats launched on October 27, 2025 and has received consistent updates from developer Outpost Games since release. Two major content updates shipped post-launch: Haunted Playgrounds on December 4, 2025 (two new biomes, room expansions, full lighting rework) and Hardcore Mode on December 12, 2025 (permadeath gameplay with new rat types). These were accompanied by feature patches and bug fixes throughout late 2025 and into 2026. Before launch, the developer published a post-release roadmap in September 2025 outlining planned development phases beyond 1.0. On October 9, 2025, a separate announcement teased cosmic horror content coming to the game. On June 26–27, 2026, the developer shipped Update 1.3, which adds a Rat Select/Randomize feature and bug fixes — and notably, the June 27 development status post explicitly states that the update video contains "a small teaser of what the future will bring for Cyber Rats," directly signaling that additional content is being worked on. This is the most recent communication from the developer and confirms that development is actively continuing with more content on the horizon.

Evidence

Developer's Update 1.3 post explicitly states the accompanying video contains 'a small teaser of what the future will bring for Cyber Rats,' signaling upcoming unannounced content.

news post · Jun 27, 2026 source content planned

high

Update 1.3 patch notes describe the update as preparing 'for something big to come in the future,' reinforcing that further content is in development.

news post · Jun 26, 2026 source content planned

high

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Details

Developer

Outpost Games

Publisher

Outpost Games

Achievements

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Platform

Windows

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Verified

Players

Single-player

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About this game

Cyber Rats is a dark and brutal action game. You are a rat trapped in a sinister, AI-controlled test facility. In deadly mazes, horrifying experiments are conducted on helpless rats every day. Can you complete the objectives of the maze, and escape with your life intact? Can you stop the evil AI, and save the lives of yourself and your fellow lab rats?

Death is part of the experiment• You are a lab rat trapped in a nightmarish AI-controlled facility, where every corner hides a gruesome death.

Procedural generated death maze • A constantly shifting labyrinth. Procedural generation ensures no maze is ever the same, and you never know, what will be hiding in the shadows.

Nowhere to hide • Find the cheese. Avoid the traps. Outsmart the Cyborg Hunters. Survive the maze… or become another failed experiment.

Upgrade your rats, and unlock new colours and rat types • Unlock twisted new rat experiments, zombie rats, cyborgs rats, mutants, and more!

• Upgrade, evolve, survive. Give your rats the edge they need to escape the AI’s deadly experiments!

Can you find the way out of this sinister place?• Every rat matters. Every death counts. Survive the horrors, and break free from the AI’s twisted experiment!

Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026