VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Lab Rats [v1.0] [Vren]

Lab Rats is a sandbox with a deadline management developed by Vren. A sequel is in the works as of today. As a university student you learn to use a serum to manipulate five girls you know to be more open minded. As the relationship points evolve, you unlock new interactions that were previously hidden, but still require you to do some deep dialog, search taking in consideration the time and date, and using the engine’s mechanic of sliding back your choices otherwise you will not progress at all. The models are simple with not much appeal, they don’t seem to be the main focus of the game, but the variety of actions to be found as the game progresses. Lab Rats is very focused on text, offering very little imagery but plenty of new dialog as a new tier is reached. The game also demands you to pay attention to the number of actions performed since it has a countdown to the end of the summer. An unnecessary element that only brings unease as you navigate throughout your home and the university. Overall the game is very short, almost claustrophobic, having not much to do or to view, offering very similar situations day after day. It’s not a bad game, but it does not shine beyond mediocrity. It strongly reminded me of the game Corruption, but that one offers significantly more content than Lab Rats.

Good game but
- Dated graphics (the game is quite old).
- Lacks of "scene" (background and stuffs; there's only character sprites in the scenes)
- Repetitive (though it has replay-values).
- The corruption part is good, but not very influential to the game story.

Overall it has a great concept and is one of the best game of its time. 4.5 star from me!

An incredibly hot corruption game only let down by two flaws. Those flaws are some dated graphics, which is understandable given the game’s age, and the complete absence of the male character on screen, which makes some of the sex scenes look a little ridiculous, even by porn game standards. Otherwise, this is actually fairly easy, and isn't too grindy, just make sure to go to Page 108 of this thread to find user Slobber's quick guide for the hardest girl to corrupt in this game.

Otherwise, yeah, this is just a solid corruption game. I’m not sure if its super re-playable, but at this point that isn’t really a huge deal. While I only gave it four stars, I think anyone into the Corruption flavor needs to check this out at least once.

My favorite VN style game with corruption, resource management, and time management elements. All the girls are great and there are a lot of options and things to do. There's also lots of replay value depending on the corruption level of each girl. Overall a great game.

I've seen folk mention this game having a lot of hidden content. New sex scenes found on a new playthrough quite a while later.

Might be nice. And it might be new scenes.

The way I see it from my playthrough, the story can be fairly hot. I imagine you find different positioning if you train for different kinks. Except maybe not. I trained a few kinks and the story was different but it was the same sex scene.

That's what made me mad. Most of the scenes in the story I liked, were the same for different occasions. I imagine if you turn the kinks to exhibitionism, free use or basically geared to sharing/ntr. You might see new positions? However as far as I played, a lot of scenes were the same positions for a different part of the plot.
If it makes you as the prospective player feel any better, each girl has their own positions for their repeated scenes:
mom has two
sister has two of her own.
research team have two each or something
and all these might be invalid if you unlock new kinks.

I dunno. I wanted more variety. So meowt

A good game for it's time, though the graphics are now dated. Not the biggest fan of all this devs decisions (allows multiple game modes but strips ending if you don't play one way, the RNG is bad), the console and mods are a big help and almost necessary, but at it's core the various concepts, how you alter the women, allowing prego content, is solid. If you can put up with the dated renders you'll still have some fun. A 4 in it's day, probably a 3 now. Still worth a try if you never played.

Sandbox game where you corrupt girls, including your mom & sister, with the help of a drug, eventually having sex and making them pregnant. Not very long. Overall, one of my favorite porn games.

Good:
+ Good looking girls
+ Pregnancy and corruption mechanic
+ Story

Bad:
- Gets grindy
- A bit too many chance-based events
- A bit short

Version: v1.0

A pretty good corruption and hypnosis game, there really isnt much to complain about expect the fact that this is a very "simplistic" game by all definitions. The story, corruption, gameplay, progression and art are all pretty simple, but effective.

There is a sequal to this and from the review i have read, its better in every way compared to the prequal, so im off to try out that one as well.

I used to replay this game a lot. The art is really nice, and the sex options late game are fleshed out enough. It really does its niche of corruption, incest, and mind control well.

My qualms are the RNG, the potentially long grind.

You could also argue the scope of the game is limited.

I'd recommend save editing to get a bunch of potions, and if you desire it the pregnancy flags.

Quite boring to be honest.
Scenes are repetitive and not very well composed.
Nothing is full screen but instead done with a back drop and then the women on either side of the options.

I downloaded the game to see some pregnancy but I couldn't muster playing that far.

I hope version 2 is better.

Rated: 2/5
Based on: Completed

Pretty bareboned game. The gameplay consists of clicking thru the same dialogues over and over again until you reach a threshold to open new scenes. And the reward for this tedious 'job' are h-scenes with no male model (yes the girls hump air in this game).

Great game. Outstanding. Beautiful models. The plot is not repetitive. The sex scenes are hot. Lots of content. Not glitchy.
My only complaint is that it's very very difficult to get all the women pregnant.

- Great time management game with fun gameplay loop
- Models hold up well for an older game(even better than Lab Rats 2 imo)
- Good variety with 5 girls and multiple endings
- Well paced game, I didn't feel the need to use external cheats(i do like save scumming tho)
- I actually like the simplicity over Lab Rats 2 slightly messy system

Play it if you like corruption and time management games.

Lots of good writing (few grammatical errors). Appropriate and appealing images. Fun mechanics with good replayability. A classic of the trainer genre imo. The multiple endings give the player something to shoot for. A drawback for some (not for me) is that random events can be save-scummed.

This rating might be a little generous through sheer nostalgia, but Lab Rats is one of the earliest H games I played and still one of my favorites. In all honesty, it can be a little grindy and the renders are dated, but it's really the events and circumstances that make the game shine. All of the girls in the game have unique and interesting sex scenes as you train and corrupt them. If you're into H games for the fantasy rather than the pictures or gameplay, you really can't go wrong with this one.

I'm giving 3/5 and I'm being very generous here, with a premise: you have to constantly cheat changing the stats. If you do not, it is a terrible 1/5 stars game.

The main problem with this game, apart from grinding if played without constant cheating, are the renderings. The models could be acceptable but the poses in the game are really bad, during sex scenes the girls occupy a small portion of the screen, everything feels rushed. The plot is ridiculous and the story is not really well developed, but that would not be a problem with more decent renderings, it could be like watching a silly porn with improbable scenery.

Download for an easy fapping but do not expect an interesting story. I also strongly advice to constantly cheat stats and save very often, reload scenes until the random event appears otherwise you'll never get the lewd scenes nor advance in the game, the grinding would be unbearable.

It`s about time I finally give this game a review it deserves.
Lab Rats the game that got me started on adult games in general and until today.. one of my absolute favorites on this forum.

Negatives first... to newer standards of this site, the quality of the game seem to be pretty outdated.
No visible MC no animated sex scenes only static, and sometimes weirdly positioned pictures.

So why 5 stars? Because I personally think all other aspects of this game outweigh it`s flaws by a mile..I love sandbox games and this game provides us sandbox lovers everything we absolute want in a game.
It is perfectly balanced between grinding and getting some actions .. it is coded in a well formed manor so that the player has the feeling of experiencing something or making progress.

It maybe is not the most modern game ... but in my books Lab Rats 1 is the most balanced and thought out sandbox you could ever think of.. the details, the different levels of corruption, the dialogue, the interactions and the characters of this short story are all very well fleshed out and in sum add up to one of the best games I`ve ever played

This game is dated plain and simple, either that or dev is for whatever reason was unable to do complex stuff with honey select. The sex scenes are well written and the models are nice but there is no sex really as there is no male model, not even a disembodied penis or ghost MC. Probably number one game on the list of games i'd like to see get an updated remake but dev is busy with Lab Rats 2 which is not nearly as satisfying a game as this one. Bottom line this is the framework for a tremendous corruption game and the writing for the sex scenes is great, but the visuals are subpar. Worth a play though

It's a hot game.. it's fun, kinda repetitive but still fun..

Idk why people complaining about the grinding part, if they have a problem about it, then y'all can just simply use the mods, or input the comand console. SMH

1 thing that "kinda" bothers me is that this game doesn't show the MC's genital, it's not like i want to see a dong, but it's just kinda awkward to me seeing the girls sucking, and stroking a wind, but that's aight i guess..

3D anime girls. WOW! They're anime girls, even though they all have Western names, because the dev used some program to make the models. Maybe Honey Select? I forget.
Anyway, the scenes are hot, but the tedious gameplay required to get to them or the 3DCG ladies you're looking at during? Not so much.
I'm sad to say, the sequel is even worse.