Ren'Py - Lab Rats 2 - Reformulate [v2025 4.0.37]

TLDR: Tricky rating. The context and plot is hot. Corrupting the girls and using the "mind control" drugs. But it's essentially a text based game, has little story, gets boring, lots of bugs, no penetration, no animation, not even any men to interact with the girls. The girls are just small models in the corner of the screen.

Positives:

• Mind control.
• Attributes for love, obedience, sluttiness, suggestibility, happiness, sex skills (e.g. anal).
• Developing fetishes for the girls (e.g. cum fetish, anal fetish)
• Exhibitionism, public sex.
• Body transformation. You can change the girls breasts, weight, height, hair style, hair color, skin color, etc.
• Lots of anal and a2m. (It's just text, but at least it's something)
• Text for sex scenes is written well and very hot (although gets extremely repetitive since you see it hundreds of times.)
• The girls models are quite hot, very nicely shaped with thin flat stomachs yet curved bodies, round asses, well-shaped breasts. (But big limitations listed below.)
• Threesome with mom and sis, mom and aunt, etc.
• Can gradually corrupt the entire city and change the laws to allow full nudity, public sex.
• Sometimes you record the girls getting fucked (again, just text).

Negatives:

• This is essentially a text-based game. Sex scenes are essentially just text. The images are extremely basic.
• There's no penetration shown.
• No animation.
• Girls are only shown off to the side as a small and basic model with a few different standard poses. Can almost not see any face details.
• There are zero men in the game. Even the MC is never shown.
• One main problem is that this game has mechanics but little story. Most "story girls" have almost no quest steps. The quests are also stopped half-way through, which is unsatisfying.
• For the (little) existing story content it's difficult to understand and progress. The in-game journal doesn't seem correct or isn't descriptive enough.
• Girls consist of one of three body types, some face types, hair (almost all ugly), breast size (looks good), and skin color. It gets boring.
• "Story" is based around events that trigger based on location, time, and apparently many some hidden factors. Very frustrating.
• Bugs: Quests don't progress as intended.
• Bugs: Mandatory events don't occur when they're supposed to be triggered. Then these mandatory events are forever gone and gets you stuck.
• Some stupid story situations. E.g. MC is drugged by a new employee and reacts in an unnatural and frustrating manner. MC is normally dominating and mind-controlling all girls around him and controls his environment. The game doesn't give us any choice in how to react and just lets this young girl get away with it.
• The UI is very convoluted and covers up most of the screen. This could easily be far smaller (smaller font size, rearrange the text, hide non-critical info such as employee count etc., move rarely used buttons to a submenu, such as "review staff".)
• Difficult to figure out what to do, quests, etc.
• MC feels like just a passenger in the "story" and there doesn't seem to be any substantial choices.
• Only FFM, no MMF.
• No (optional) sharing. This is a huge missed opportunity in a game where you can control these girls entirely, make them very slutty and obedient. (I don't want NTR. Instead, actual sharing under the control and participation of MC.)
• The threesome are very limited in terms of sex acts and positions. You can't even do anal.
• Clothing clipping with body shape (sometimes and only a minor issue).
• Condom required for some scenes.
• MC changes personality from one scene to the next. Most of the time he's confident, competent, and dominating the girls he mets. But then suddenly in some scenes he's completely insecure, passive, the girl has to take all the initiative and MC keeps questioning if they should really have sex etc. Next scene totally confident and dominating again.
• I don't understand how to do "optional events". It's listed in the calendar but nothing happens. And interacting with that girl also doesn't trigger an event.
• Events repeat. Bug?
• Events out of order. One talking about finally getting a BJ from a girl but MC has already fucked all her holes a lot and got her pregnant.

Played with the "standard" mod package (KINA, Cheats, etc.) of the August 2025 version from the repository.

I have exactly one criticism for this game and that is the engine/models. If this exact game were done with more anime-ey characters it'd be right up there - but that's not something I'm detracting from the score since it's obviously a completely subjective preference. Honestly the models are kind of hard on the eyes.

The main reason I'm bringing that up is just so I can say that if you're looking at this and feel the same way, don't let it discourage you from giving this game a shot.

There's a ton of content here - enough so that you can put a lot of hours into it and still be stumbling across new primary characters and events. On the management side of things the base mechanics are a bit daunting initially but they're actually very simple and weirdly fun to engage with whilst on the sexual end encounters are entertaining and the scenarios are surprisingly creative and engaging.

Despite being a sandbox and not having a real narrative the quality of the writing is quite high - people speak pretty naturally and I haven't noticed any typos or weird sentences. The sex itself isn't animated but there's a lot of fun sexual dynamics you can orchestrate. My only real criticism is that the game is a bit grindy but the cheat menu is unobtrusive and always readily available so it's easy to speed most things along (or skip them entirely if that's your preference)

On balance I'd give this a solid 9/10 for its genre, I haven't played a game like this that's as engaging or with this much content and a huge kudos to those who took the original abandoned game and carried it forward because the additional content there is equally impressive.

Best Sex Game I've ever played !!!

Best Corruption Game:
the Taboo System
(you have to unlock the kind of Sex you want with the Woman, in doing so you break a Taboo and it is easier to convince her the next time)
in Combination with the Opinion System
(every Woman has 4 Opinion "Fields", what she Loves, what she likes, what she doesn't like and what she hates!
You can change her Opinions if you put her through hard Orgasms and with the help of "Suggest-Serums" into a Trance!
And slowly but surely you can change her the way you want her!)

Best Incest Game:
I personally don't go full Incest it's always Semi-Incest for me - Stepmom not real Mom, but for each his own!
Your Mom and Sister have of course the strongest Taboos, breaking them is the hardest and therefore the most rewarding
also high Realism both reset their Boundaries/Taboos the next day(s)
So the Corruption of Mom is the hardest in the Game and again high Realism you unlock Anal Sex way before Vaginal Sex since it is such a great Taboo for her
and in Order to do so you need to change her Opinions about Incest(of course) and what kind of Sex she likes ...
so all these Ingredients work very well together and make it so fun to play
You don't just conquer their Bodies but also their Minds

Best Management Porn Game:
I know that's the boring Part but still, managing your Company and developing the Serums is real fun and a Breath of fresh Air in Comparison to most Porn Games where you just hold ctrl key til the Fun begins

Some of the best Writing:
the Sex scenes don't show much just the Woman on the right side of the screen in her Position, bending over, kneeing or whatever! So that's kind of boring for a Sex Game
BUT the Writing still brings it home!
Since it's not the average nonsensical Garbage you read in most Games, the Writer(s) is definitely a Man of Culture as well
Also the Text highlights with Colors the most important Parts

Pure Sandbox = full Control:
I guess this is another Part of why this Game is so addicting and also highly erotic
YOU CONTROL EVERYTHING
where you are going, what you do, with which Woman, in Public or Private
And every "Sex-step", what position next? the same again or something new? maybe another hole? ...
Do you want to fuck all the Woman that work for you or just the Favorites? Do you want to Fuck Mom or is it better to just have a Titfuck with her from Time to Time?
Do you want to hire only big breasted Woman or do you prefer Diversity ? Or are her inner Values the only important ones(is she good at her Job, HR needs high Charisma + HR Experience, Production needs high Focus + Production Experience ...)

All these Features are well executed and work very well together ... Like I said best Sex Game Ever

Story, you ceo of drug/serum company and serum you made can edit NPC surround you, you can use serum manipulate for your gain and fuck them make them lust over MC or fall deep love follow your command, is open worlld mc able explore find your victim talk charm or you can drug them make them do what you want... so story is GO for some or NO for some... is GO for me so why i said is GOOD!

graphic: is weak why missing 1 star

music/sound eh weak but game is Free...

recommendation Yes if you into making drug for date, and if you have issues with that.. can do traditional way going on date and talk... lol

absolute amazing game
im a casual degenerate, i dont play these games that much
but after just sneaking a peak into this game before bed
i didnt stop

for 3 days did leave my house naught but once
my cumsocks are filled, my tissuesbox empty
and my loins stir for more

honestly the Undertale text effects are killing me
so good

This game has amazing potential as a management game, but the adult side of it is just missing. I'm hoping that eventually the game will get to a point where you get more than just static images for any of the adult content, but based on the abandoned first game, that seems unlikely.

Amazing Concept,Plenty of customization can be made through characters, Wide variety of Mechanics in the Game, Well done and Highly Recommended!

About the grinding though, if you don't want to spend time grinding, there's cheat menu provided within the game.

I enjoy the concept and I think the effort here is admirable but the game just turns into this really grindy experience with very little real interesting content. Its almost like Hentai High School, where the concept is really good, but the execution just feels kinda lacking. Its still being developed so maybe it'll improve a bunch, but for now its just kinda mid, though its fun to poke around at the internal systems.

Brilliant game, and so glad I gave it a chance. Plenty of variation, supports a range of different kinks and feeds new content and activities in a well paced way to keep the game feeling fresh. I've binge played it for the last week, and still have heaps of content to go.

This is a truly phenomenal porn game. I choose my words very carefully, because a lot of porn games aren't games at all- they're VNs, they're grinds with precious little content, or they're slideshows of porn .webms

This is a true management simulator game. You take on the role of CEO and Mad Scientist, directing research towards various mind-altering pharmaceuticals, and manipulating the women you hire. You have total freedom to corrupt the environment around you with your actions. Many games promise this level of interactivity, but this game actually delivers.

The learning curve is a little steep, in the same way that many good strategy or simulation games require you to understand what you're doing. I recommend playing it once fast & loose to see all the systems, then restarting and playing it for real. It's that good.

The models are primitive, but the text is fantastic. lots of cool in-line text formatting that makes things like climaxes stand out.

Pros-

• total freedom to corrupt, manipulate, impregnate, dominate the women around the MC.
• many characters have unique combinations of traits and opinions that dictate how they behave. When you successfully seduce a character you can slowly convince them to change their opinions as you see fit. A+ corruption mechanics
• robust wardrobe and outfit controls. do you want your harem to wear collars and virgin-killer dresses to work? go for it.

Cons-

• models are very dated. The random generation means some of the women look weird/fugly (until you fix them, at least)
• there are no other men in the game at all. Some women in the simulation have husbands, but they're not interactable or visible characters. IDK if adding femboy or sissy content would make the game better, might make it worse or more annoying... but it does feel strange sometimes to have a city that has only women and no male competition at all
• the learning curve is very steep. when you figure it out the game really opens up, and when your company is stable you're basically free to do whatever you want. It's going to take some experimenting to get there though.
• There are static npcs that have weird or convoluted scripts. I have knocked up women that I can't actually have sex with yet, because they're not scripted to allow vaginal sex until you finish a quest. I think the dev needs to really rein that stuff in, or make it SUPER OBVIOUS how to advance it. Some of the triggers seem too hard to find organically.

In general I think this might be the best sandbox game I have ever played. There's also a fair bit of scripted content (all the incest stuff is scripted). As long as the dev balances the scripted stuff with enhancing the sandbox (which also impacts the non-scripted interactions with plot characters), it will all work out.

Amazing game, great port, can do anything and everything you'd dream of as the owner of your own company, getting started is staying small and invisible for the law and then once you go big you can change whatever you want about whomever you'd like

Amazing game.

100% improvement over the other versions. It had exactly my kink of mind control and body change. You are free to approach the game how you like and don't get railroaded.

10/10 from me. I just wish there were more games like this.

This game is a fantastic experience that captivates from the very beginning. With engaging gameplay, impressive visuals, and an immersive soundtrack, it offers hours of fun and rewarding challenges. The attention to detail is remarkable, and the balance between fun and difficulty is perfect, making it accessible for beginners while still challenging for experienced players. A masterpiece that combines creativity, passion, and quality, leaving a lasting impression on anyone who plays it. Definitely worth checking out!

its a really good game the original one was not this good

This is a truly outstanding game if you care less about DAZ scenery than actual gameplay.

It takes the best aspects of Superpowered, Straitened Times and The Company (complex systems) and none of their shortcomings (grind, terrible code organization, terrible UI in some of them, formulaic/predictable after a while).

So yeah, in absolute terms the sex scenes are rather abstract, but there's very complete undressing and interaction options, leading to LOTS of interactivity and ultimately replayability.

The core gameplay loop is that you need serums to get into girls' pants, but you also need "post-nut clarity" (brilliant) to research those serums, and this loop works EXTREMELY well. Both the promise and the actual payoff are done extremely well, so you'll find yourself actually caring about both things - fucking anything with a pulse AND running the company.

The incest themes are extremely well integrated into all the above, and there's impressive depth into it; not just done to tick a checkbox.

Ten out of five stars - a Game with capital G, the first one I'm excited about in a long time after years of trying out shitty me-toos without vision or competent execution.

I keep coming back to this game, and would definitely recommend it to anyone who is a fan of management-style games. It brings back memories of HHS+ but with more granular control over the characters. If you like the tags, give this game a shot.
Pros: Full control over your subjects, from body alterations, to opinions and personality types. Best game for this +5
Able to slowly influence the town and the people in it, including certain laws +1
Able to collect a harem, and have them all live in your mansion +1
Active discord community, including mods and support +5

Cons: Exclusively male character, with no other influenceable male characters. I can't help but feel like this is wasted potential, would love to see some sissification personally. -5

Because this game is still in development I won't take points off for the story, the point of the game is the management aspect and slowly changing things. Or quickly if you use the cheats built into the game. All in all this game is great, and if I had spare money I would definitely support the development of this game. Good work DEV!

Great premise with a great goal in mind. Updating and adding new content to the original version which was abandoned, but done so poorly. Even messing up some parts of the original version.

The new updates are too misguided, focusing more on adding new content rather than fixing and perfecting what is already here. Due to this, instead of having a game that has lesser content but the content it has is amazing, you actually end up with a lot of content which sounds good until you realize most of it is unfinished and very buggy. Quantity over quality instead of quality over quantity.

On top of this, the best aspect of this game is the sandbox aspect of it. The worst aspect of the overhaul forces you into VN type of story-lines. Directly the opposite of sandbox. This makes it so you can't do certain things at certain times without being pushed into a character's story that you probably don't care about. Changing this perfect sandbox into a VN with sandbox aspects.

Biggest example are "The Head Researcher", "The Production Assistant" and the head of HR. Bombarding you into their life story regardless of how you might want them to be. But you can replace them... except the replacement option is still bugged as of right now, making it so they don't do the actual jobs that they are supposed to replace. This connects back to my point of not perfecting what is already there.

Not to mention that many things are way to grindy. Like clarity and marketing which are both extremely important. But once you get past the beginning, they feel more punishing than fun. Not to mention that the original made marketing much better and balanced imo. This made the main focuses of the game way more frustrating than they should've been.

I found myself changing the coding of the game to fit what it should be more than playing the game. Then even when playing the game, I spent more time avoiding the forced VN story parts, rather than just... playing the game.

The only good thing I can say about the overhaul is the better UI with slight improvement on the serum ideas. Other than that, I find myself wanting to play the original abandoned version (which I would except it seems to have a memory problem when playing for long periods of time.)

TL;DR: Don't recommend. Great sandbox turned VN in comparison to the original, forced storylines, too grindy, too much content with none of it being perfected. Better UI but that's kinda it.

What an amazing game, I am blown away by all the content and how the game play dynamics work. I was surprised I to find myself loving the fashion designing and playing with opacities to get lewd rating with in their level of comfort, it was a lot of fun. I would actual like to see more clothing as it is a fun aspect of the game. I liked making serums and combing and working the kinks out of them. It great. I cannot stop myself form cheating tho, so made two copies of the game one for serious play with the console turned of and the other for fun where I can cheat everywhere.

Holy shit, this game is so fun. I usually only play 3d games or at least games with 2d animations. but once in a while there are some gems without fancy graphics or animation, like this one. This game really checks so many boxes for me:
- A well made management gameplay
- Very interesting corruption paths / mechanics
- Slow and mostly somewhat plausible corruption
- The dirty talk / dialogue during sex. HOLY CRAB, it is just the way I like it

Some minor gripes are with the very minor bugs (mostly very small graphical glitches, Z ordering stuff) and sometimes its hard to know what to focus of, especially during research. But other than that: I LOVE IT!

I played it for.. maybe 20 hours now (OK, at some point I restarted, but this game does have a good replay value). Still not discovered all the contend yet.

Highly recommended!

This is a management game done right: you need to plan ahead and use your resources correctly to get what you want, which in this case are the women.

It's not the usual RenPy game where you just hold down Ctrl until some sex scene happens - instead, it's a proper game, so the focus is on the gameplay - you'll spend most of the time researching and developing serums, and slowly tailoring the traits of the women to your liking.

Besides the sandbox/management mode, there is a story mode, which adds novelty. I set it to marathon speed and it's been quite enjoyable, allowing me to focus on the management part, while throwing new events once in a while.

I'm only taking away one star because of the character models: most of the faces look the same, and there doesn't seem to be a way to modify their faces (which are the main issue) through serums, and the textures are very poor - the models don't even seem to have buttholes.

That aside, it's a pretty solid management game for those looking for actual gameplay.

i don't like giving 5 stars to any game
but this one is an exception

compared to the other games i played, this one stands out the most to me
this is proof that you don't need graphics to get immersed in a game, because most of the time i find myself glued to my screen playing this for hours and hours.

i'm looking forward to future updates