Lab Rat

A box-pushing puzzle game supervised by a metrics-obsessed AI

Chump Squad · Published by Klei Publishing · Released Apr 15, 2025

Reviews: Very Positive; 97% of 367
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Players: 0; daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update on Steam: 1 year ago; Jul 2, 2025
Minimum PC: DX11 compatible; 4 GB RAM · 0.4 GB disk; Full requirements

What is Lab Rat?

Lab Rat is a single-player sci-fi puzzle game framed as a test run by an AI. You move objects, redirect lasers, and manipulate electricity across more than a hundred puzzles, while the AI draws misguided conclusions about humanity from your performance and survey answers.

For you if...

+you enjoy learning new puzzle mechanics throughout a game
+you like dark humor about technology and human behavior

Not for you if...

−you want multiplayer challenges or cooperative puzzle-solving
−you prefer puzzles without narration or an ongoing story

What players say

97% of 367 reviews are positive

Players praise the voice acting and how the story fits around the puzzles. Several describe the difficulty as approachable rather than punishing.

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Lab Rat system requirements

Minimum: DX11 compatible, 4 GB RAM, 0.4 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

OS: Windows 7 64 bit
Processor: Dual Core Processor, 2.5 GHz or Higher
Graphics: DX11 compatible video card
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 400 MB available space

Does Lab Rat have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does Lab Rat run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
The native resolution is not the default one
All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
External controllers are not supported for the primary player

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Full controller support
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 11
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Languages: Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Turkish.

Does Lab Rat use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam