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Play Overview
Lab Rat (2025) is a tile-based puzzle game with an emphasis on satire. You work in a machine-learning facility where you take on scenarios chosen for you by the metrics-obsessed AI that monitors, profiles, and taunts you as you progress.
Play involves manoeuvring objects on a grid to divert lasers, and manipulate electricity to make required connections. You can place portals that let you jump from one location to another. There are over 80 puzzles to work through as you attempt to outwit the incessant AI intent on heckling you for your humanity.
The game leans into the Portal-like puzzles and computer persona. In fact, more than that game, Lab Rat narrates your progress to assure you that your puzzle performance and survey response data will be fed to this (theoretically) unbiased machine, and shape its view of humanity. You answer questions about your state of mind and are reassured that others are also doing the test.
The result is a game that is both puzzling and unsettling.
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Lab Rat 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 7 days ago.
Play involves manoeuvring objects on a grid to divert lasers, and manipulate electricity to make required connections. You can place portals that let you jump from one location to another. There are over 80 puzzles to work through as you attempt to outwit the incessant AI intent on heckling you for your humanity.
The game leans into the Portal-like puzzles and computer persona. In fact, more than that game, Lab Rat narrates your progress to assure you that your puzzle performance and survey response data will be fed to this (theoretically) unbiased machine, and shape its view of humanity. You answer questions about your state of mind and are reassured that others are also doing the test.
The result is a game that is both puzzling and unsettling.
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Lab Rat 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 7 days ago.
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Play Style
This is a Brain Game and Traversal game with Narrative and Puzzle elements. This is a single-player game.
You can play this game in the following styles:
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This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Skill Level
9+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. The puzzles get complex but providing they have good spatial awareness younger children enjoy this. Younger kids quite like the AI trying to put them off while they play.
Costs
Game Details
Release Date: 15/04/2025
Price: 20% Off
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Brain Game, Traversal (Narrative and Puzzle)
Accessibility: 30 features
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Developer: Dire Goldfish (@DireGoldfish)
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