Lab Rat

About

Lab Rat casts you as a test subject navigating over 100 puzzles while being tracked by an AI that’s equal parts helpful and hilariously clueless. Solve spatial challenges across shifting environments as the game’s algorithm comments on your every move, offering feedback that’s oddly encouraging yet clearly missing the point. The AI’s obsession with data turns every jump and lever-pull into a stats-driven lesson, creating a meta-layer of absurdity that twists standard puzzle mechanics. The game’s charm lies in its self-aware satire, with the AI’s misguided take on human behavior growing weirder as you play. Its constant surveys and performance reviews feel like a quirky conversation partner more than a tutorial. Launching in 2025, it’s a compact, clever experience that blends dry humor with tight level design. Early builds leaked online already show players laughing at the AI’s baffled take on lateral thinking puzzles, proof this isn’t just a game, but a gently mocking look at how algorithms try to parse us.

Storyline

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 this AI will develop a hilariously-misguided understanding of humanity based on your performance and survey response data.