Lab Rat
Fair · Short indie · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. A BANGER at $4.01, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2025 (lowest $12.99, Oct 2026).
- Length
- 3.9h 8.7h to 100%
- Value
- $5.13/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 389 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.01 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DX11 compatible video card, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 9 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 11 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $4.01, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Suicide Guy ($5.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats DEPLOYMENT ($1.34, scores 51).
More about Lab Rat
1 of the 309 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 3.9 hours; clearing it takes 9, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
69% start to 15% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 6, 22:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
wow! this is actually good! can recommend! loaded with references and jokes, a sokoban-like but actually own mechanics explored to around 10 hours of real gameplay! and I wasn't even reading the dialog trees that much, I'm sure even more jokes to be found there. Thank you Gwen! Please keep going, I'm looking forward to your next games! downsides: it's unreal engine, a recent one, saving grace is that the game is...
2 more reviews
Very enjoyable experience. Not hard puzzles, but you have to think a bit. Good setting. Hit or miss with the wanna-be GlaDOS.
A good game with good humour. If your are into puzzle games and also into some parody of those games this is a must buy.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Lab Rat scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1304610/lab-ratReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.