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Attention, valued test subjects Good news! The testing program is now being evaluated and possibly awarded by an independent third party! Lab Rat has been nominated for the 3rd annual Thinky Awards, with winners announced on Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 10am PST. View the full
NEW: Added option to disable copyrighted music. BUGFIX: Fixed some issues with localized text overflowing their containing widgets.
BUGFIX: Resolution and display mode settings would not be properly restored when restarting game. BUGFIX: Localized text would sometimes overflow widgets. BUGFIX: Some keyboard/mouse inputs do not have a corresponding button icon. Other minor changes and bugfixes.
NEW: Translated game text and subtitles to Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain & Latin America), and Turkish. NEW: Added keyboard remapping. NEW: Added additional options for how subti
BUGFIX: Player could not complete level if undoing or resetting after the gate is unlocked at the end of the spider boss level . BUGFIX: Level would remain dark when returning from the combat simulator to the village . BUGFIX: Some in-game signs were not being rendered. BUGFIX: M
BUGFIX: Ambient SFX would become distorted at lower SFX volumes. BUGFIX: The Tier IV "A Mysterious Princess" levels could not be completed when entering via the green pipe in the Village . We were not able to reproduce this bug so we are not certain that our fix was successful. P
- BUGFIX: Player character would cover poll response screen in ultrawide resolutions. - BUGFIX: Using undo while certain actions were resolving could leave the level in an invalid state. - BUGFIX: Continuing after completing the game would result in broken controls. - BUGFIX: Inc
Congratulations! 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 availa
On April 15th LabRat Launches with 100+ Mind-Bending Puzzles. Put your logic to the test in this hand-crafted satirical sci-fi puzzle game. Congratulations! You have been chosen to participate in a special test that will help refine a brand new kind of game! Lab Rat was generated
Hello! We're still deep in production on Lab Rat, but I wanted to pause for a second and share a sneak peak at what we're building for you. Check out the new trailer on our Steam page, or here on YouTube: We'll be launching next year, both here on Steam and on Xbox. If you'd like
I'm SO EXCITED to share some brand-new footage of Lab Rat! Check it out!!! 👀👂👇
Lab Rat is a collaboration between 2 designers: Gwen Frey has worked in commercial game development for 12 years. She was a senior technical animator on BioShock Infinite, cofounded The Molasses Flood & developed roguelike The Flame in the Flood, and just recently shipped a p
This is a true meeting of minds! Alan Hazelden is famous in puzzle game circles. He directed A Monster's Expedition , Cosmic Express , A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build , and Sokobond . Alan runs the largest Discord dedicated to puzzle game development, " Thinky Puzzle Games ", and
The Lab Rat closed beta has officially begun. A few hundred testers are playing the first demo of the game, and more playtesters are being added to the beta every week! If you would like to join the closed beta then sign up FOR FREE at: The player feedback so far has been incredi