Lab Rat

Released Apr 2025

A metrics-obsessed AI will monitor, profile, and entertain you as you progress through over a hundred genre-bending puzzles in this delightfully satirical adventure.

97% positive · 382 reviews

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Evaluation

Lab Rat launched on April 15, 2025 as a complete, hand-crafted narrative puzzle game featuring over 100 puzzles. The store description and launch announcement describe it as a finished product with no mention of planned expansions, DLC, or additional content phases. There is no season pass, roadmap, or announced future content of any kind. Since launch, the developer (Chump Squad) has been actively maintaining the game with a series of bug fix and quality-of-life patches: version 1.3.2 on April 25, 1.3.3 on May 1, a localization and keybindings update (1.4.0) on June 12, followed by 1.4.1 on June 23 and 1.4.2 on July 2, 2025. These updates demonstrate the developer is engaged with the player community and polishing the release, but none announce new puzzles, story content, or any form of post-launch content expansion. The game appears to have shipped as a complete, self-contained experience. All post-launch activity has been maintenance and quality-of-life improvements rather than content additions.

Evidence

Lab Rat launched on April 15, 2025 as a complete narrative puzzle game with 100+ puzzles. No post-launch content or roadmap announced.

news post · Apr 15, 2025 source content shipped

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Store description presents Lab Rat as a complete, hand-crafted experience with a defined feature set. No mention of DLC, expansions, seasons, or planned updates.

description source content shipped

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Media

Details

Developer

Chump Squad

Publisher

Klei Publishing

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Playable

Players

Single-player

Puzzle Dark Humor 3D Sci-fi Sokoban Comedy Funny Story Rich Science Atmospheric Dark Comedy Artificial Intelligence Indie Futuristic Robots

About this game

Congratulations!

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.

Key Features:

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.

The Game:

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.

The Team:

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).