comments for Idle Lab Rats

Finally figured it out. The carpenter bench in the lab needs to be adjacent to the maze(s) in question for you to be able to switch to different maze styles. My bench is now adjacent to 2 of my 3 mazes, and I can finally switch to other maze types for those two.
This... should probably be made clearer or the adjacency requirement should be removed entirely.

Hi all,
Thank you to everyone for giving this game a try. There’s definitely more work to be done, including bugged abilities, UI/UX, better descriptions and some balancing. I’m hoping to have the next release done in a few months with a good amount of new features. I was originally planning on wiping progress with the next release, but after seeing the enthusiasm players have shown, I’ll probably have to reconsider this.
Thanks again for the feedback,
-Alex

I feel like the scry ball ability might not work as intended? I've repeatedly had a rat go down dead-end paths that were scouted by the scry ball, or completely ignore the arrows pointing towards the cheese when the scry ball found it. Right now I'm rating it at the bottom of all abilities I've encountered.
The chemistry upgrades get prohibitively expensive quite quickly, meanwhile there's no major rise in research gain so it just comes down to throwing time and rats at the cost.
Training equipment seems of very limited use right now, especially seeing as the rats' proficiency does not factor into it at all so higher levels are impossible to gain with training equipment. It gives some easy early levels, but that's about it. If you sell the training equipment you can have a 4th rat instead.

Can't read any of the buttons at the top, they're cut off.

This game has tons of potential. It's already fun in its current state, but has a lot of places it could (should) grow in. In its current state, not only do I not see much reason to purchase more than one of each rat training facility, but you just don't have the space in your garage to do so. A good alternative maybe would be to allow us to upgrade those things so they level up a rats stats faster. Another good example of this is the chemistry set or the carpenter bench. Why would you ever want two chemistry sets when all it does is unlock research and takes up 4 squares of space?
Secondly, some of the level-up perks your later rats can unlock are just super useless at best, and detrimental at worst. For instance - spin top is basically completely useless. It doesn't appear to make your rat go much faster and just seems to be goofy, but it doesn't really appear to make them any slower either. In stark juxtaposition, drift king is extremely useful. Scrying orb is VERY detrimental in its current state. Maybe it's bugged? It seems like when it reveals a bad path that dead-ends, my rat will follow it anyway, and even when it scries the correct path to the cheese, my rat will also completely ignore that and wander around as usual. The worst part about it though is a combination of 2 things - firstly, it pauses your rat every time it scries, which slows things down quite a bit, and as Trondor mentioned in another comment, if you have a rat with 2 INT perks and they are scrying orb/blink, your rat will just freeze when it blinks and scries simultaneously. Other perks in the game all seem to be in a good state, even though some are definitely stronger than others.
This is definitely a fun experience right now though, so don't give up on the project. I could very much see this being a game that ends up being an indie release on steam or something with some more depth and love given to it.

"OMG GO THE OTHER WAY!!!!" -me

the window size only worked once i went on the original site

might be the most infuriating idle game I've ever played... it's so addictive though (I love it so much)

@galaxyuser63274 literally what are you yapping about...
1. Select the rat.
2. Settings.
3. Buy a cage.
4. There is a free rat in the shop.

I hope there'll be another update soon.
Maybe something like higher tier rats not starting from 1 on stats. Or free rats' max stats being raised so you can always complete a grant. Or a repeatable grant that gives lower than average money but can always be completed with a free rat.
Or maybe rebalance stat growth just a little. Stamina usually falls behind agility and intelligence in growth (when the upgrades are equal).

As though scrying orb wasn't bad enough, it also causes your rat to freeze if activated at the same time as Blink.

I do not see anyone mention this.
Ram ability becomes disability in a way that the rats break too many walls and they wonder in circles which slows down the process.
Especially when you have low intelligence.

You need above the price to purchase the upgrades. ex: Cost 18 Needs 19.

I love this game.
Here is a whole spoilers area.
Ram ability need rework. It create a lot of new ways and usually it results a whole clusters of open areas whichout ability to mark them as dead-ends, furthermore, mouse at this moment usually also exhausted completely. So, you have large non-markable areas of random movement when in same moment your mouse is slow a lot. I tried to find some composition of abilities, when this ability would start to be working, but, no, here is no such compositions. Best solution probably would be introducing ability to mark as deadends areas, which not actually deadend. If some area is connected to dead-end and have various ways to get there in 1-2 cells then mark it as dead-end
Chemistry is hardcapped at lvl 5, so, just write on buttons "MAX" when lvl 5 acquired
Husbandry. Please, add ability to cancel operation. Also, can't we make it even faster? 15 minutes is still a lot. What about making it basically 15 minutes + by money reduce it to 5 minutes. And with a loooot of money make it instantly. So, 20 + 100 would give reduction to 5 minutes and with 1000 making it instant? Also, may be, later upgrade for more variants
Would be fun to see othery types of mazes, mostly I like rusty maze, but when I bored I trying other mazes, want to say, that for me for some reason hard to see walls in honeycomb maze.
Add commont things to distribute research points to proficiency, such as: Add 1 to all. Spend max points on all. Spend max points for 1 type.
Scry still somehow bugged. Was in situation, when mouse locked in cell with dead-end somehow. Also it buggs "Eat all the grass" objective.
All totems definitelly need liiitle radius upscale with stats. Also would be good to have pathfinding into it, like for cheese.

its good but I tried it on Chromebook and the size is messed up

Personally I do feel like the "bad path marking depth" should reason from the closest end-tile rather than furthest, in the case of converging paths.

the Ram ability can cause the rats to have negative dead end markers

i just started yesterday and im already hooked this is a great game please dont abandon it though

is it just me or is the window size a bit small cuz i couldnt see the other menus or all of the text

oh my god the beginner rats aare so stupid
they're 1 tile from the goal and they turn the wrong way