
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.
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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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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese +1 more
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 42 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
Charming puzzle game with well designed puzzles (you can solve them all with careful thinking and deduction, rather than just messing around), and funny dialog/story that gives a good reason to stay invested!
很乐的推箱子游戏,个人觉得黑白侦探风的关卡玩起来很惊艳(而且难度适中,适合我这种又菜又爱玩的家伙
I really appreciate this game. For a lot of reasons. First, it's a solid sokoban. There is enough diversity and interesting gimmicks to keep the game fresh. The way the level selection process changes as the story progresses was really cool. Sometimes a sokoban will be a giant overworld with varying degrees of meta puzzles. This game progresses and changes as you go along and it made the game feel a bit more alive and interesting. Second, it's pretty funny. I really enjoy all of the videogame references and social commentary. And the way many of the gimmicks are tied to themed areas. The noise that you hear before the first of these presents instantly triggered me back to my childhood and I knew what was about to happen before it came on screen. Great job! The difficulty for the game is average. I have played a lot of sokobans, Monster's Expedition, SSR, etc., and this is a much simpler game. I did get hung up a few times, but nothing like these other sokobans where I would spend hours on a specific puzzle. All sokobans don't need to be that way, and sometimes it's just nice to solve puzzles at a good place and enjoy a game with a silly story. The graphics, sounds, music, and voice acting, all are solid. I did find a few bugs. These were easily fixed by quitting a level and going back in. Nothing game breaking, though levels would freeze. I think the dev team is small, so it's not a huge deal. And if the dev team is small, then this is a very impressive game. Either way, it really is great. Overall, this is a really fun game that I would definitely recommend. If you enjoy sokobans, I would just go ahead and pick it up. If you have never played a sokoban, this would be a solid first entry into the genre. I completed the game 100% in 8 hours. If you really like puzzle games and sokobans, the asking price is totally fair, given the quality of the game, the experience, and the gimmicks/puzzles. If you are new to the genre, and it's on even a small sale, I would definitely pull the trigger.
Genuinely delightful writing, very aware of how the video game industry is. Puzzles are solid, writing manages to stay funny but not overstay its welcome. Definitely worth asking the machine to put you down at least once.
很不错的推箱子解谜游戏,强烈推荐。 整体关卡不多,机制和场景相当丰富,看得出制作组很用心。部分机制虽然关卡不多,但也很有意思。 本人是推箱子苦手,不过这个游戏也坚持没看攻略通关了,感觉难度算中。 游戏有很多致敬,剧情完成度也很高。 整体来说没有大槽点,完全称得上优秀,可惜几乎无人问津😔。
Currently have the game roughly 60% complete. The game starts as pretty ordinary sokoban puzzler with a twist, but after a while the game takes a very interesting turn. Don't skip just because it's a sokoban.
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.
Lab Rat est un jeu de pûzzle avec une difficulté bien dosée et un humour qui me plaît beaucoup. Très bonne découverte pour ma part.
Cool and good 👍
Game lost me on the second tutorial puzzle. What does it want? I must be missing something. First puzzle is a column of spaces with a block and a button. Push the block onto the button. Next puzzle is a block and a button and 2 lasers. No clue is given. The solution is not to move the block onto the button. I randomly tried a bunch stuff, nothing worked. That isn't the kind of game I want to play. Tell me what the goal is!
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