Cyber Rats: Rat in the Machine - A tiny survivor in a cold, clinical world of cybernetic predators. (Game Review)
Cyber Rats is a brutal, fast‑paced rogue‑lite that casts you as a lab rat fighting to survive procedurally generated death mazes, every run is a tense scramble through shifting corridors, lethal traps, and ambushes from cyborg hunters. Launched by Outpost Games on October 27, 2025, the game leans hard into survival‑horror atmosphere: sterile, AI‑controlled test chambers, grotesque experiment set‑pieces, and a constant sense that the facility itself is hunting you. Recent updates, most notably the Hardcore single‑life mode and the addition of new biomes like Playgrounds and Haunted House; raise the stakes and variety, ensuring each escape attempt feels urgent, unforgiving, and never quite the same. What makes it tense The game’s standout feature is its procedurally generated maze: corridors, trap placements, and enemy patrols rearrange themselves every run, so rote memorization offers no safety, only quick thinking and on‑the‑fly adaptation. That constant reshuffling creates emergent e...