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Lab Rat cover art

Lab Rat

Chump Squad · Klei Publishing · 2025-04-15

SteamEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: TBD (Xbox Series X|S), Apr 15, 2025 (Xbox One), Apr 15, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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 of 385 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

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(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 34 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 278% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 40% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.7k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 385 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $13.99 at Steam (2026-06-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 5 of 12 observed days · $6.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
929220252026Week of 2025-04-15: 92 positiveWeek of 2025-04-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-22: 61 positiveWeek of 2025-04-22: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-29: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-05-06: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-05-13: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-20: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-27: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-10: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-06-17: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-24: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-08: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-05: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-18: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$13.992025-04-152026-08-272025-04-15 — best price $15.992025-04-29 — best price $19.992025-06-12 — best price $15.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-08-28 — best price $15.992025-09-11 — best price $19.992025-09-29 — best price $15.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $14.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-02-04 — best price $14.992026-02-11 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $14.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-06-11 — best price $13.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-27 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
68.4%
earned "Adequate Competence"
24.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)20536%11
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)119%10

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DFunnyIndieComedyPuzzleSci-fiScienceSokobanNarrationDark Humor

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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