Lab Rat
This satirical adventure stars a metrics-obsessed AI who will monitor, profile, and entertain you as you progress through over a hundred genre-bending puzzles.
Lab Rat is an indie developed by Chump Squad, released 15 April 2025 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Lab Rat is
Lab Rat is an indie game developed by Chump Squad and released in 2025. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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. 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…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Lab Rat launched on 15 April 2025, within three weeks of Inzoi, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Blue Prince and South of Midnight. It arrived 5 years into the Xbox Series's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Inzoi, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Blue Prince, South of Midnight.
Official trailer
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