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Lab Rat
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-15.
“Cool and clever puzzles with distinct sokoban mechanics, but an absolute waste of resources on overproduction. Aesthetically and narratively, this feels like a 2010 idea that took 15 years to manifest. The puzzles are dope and that's why we're here, but why do I have to alt-F4…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“Funny puzzle game with some good writing. Laughed out loud at some jokes. Enjoyed the puzzles and got a bit stuck on some, but you can skip past some levels (not entirely sure how that works). I haven't finished yet, but worth your time if you like spatial logic puzzles.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Being bullied around was never so much fun ;) Clever puzzles which are often not easy but doable, bit much chit-chat here and there but it's amusing so that's ok.”
— a player, Steam review · 120 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Lab Rat nominated at the 2026 Thinky Awards🧪🐀
Attention, valued test subjects Good news! The testing program is now being evaluated and possibly awarded by an independent third party! Lab Rat has been nominated for the 3rd annual Thinky Awards, w
1.4.2 Patch Notes
NEW: Added option to disable copyrighted music. BUGFIX: Fixed some issues with localized text overflowing their containing widgets.
1.4.1 Patch Notes
BUGFIX: Resolution and display mode settings would not be properly restored when restarting game. BUGFIX: Localized text would sometimes overflow widgets. BUGFIX: Some keyboard/mouse inputs do not hav
1.4.0 Patch Notes - Localization and Keybindings!
NEW: Translated game text and subtitles to Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain & Latin America), and Turkish
1.3.3 Patch Notes
BUGFIX: Player could not complete level if undoing or resetting after the gate is unlocked at the end of the spider boss level . BUGFIX: Level would remain dark when returning from the combat simulato
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Indie |
| Player tags | Dark Humor · Puzzle · 3D · Singleplayer · Sci-fi · Comedy · Funny · Sokoban · Story Rich · Science · Atmospheric · Dark Comedy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Turkish * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 11 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
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