Lab Life Simulator | Natalia Zhang

Lab Life Simulator: How Hard Can Running a Lab Be?

I made a little game just for fun: Lab Life Simulator.

You are a newly appointed PI with six years to build your research lab. Recruit students, manage projects, chase papers, survive deadlines, and make a series of perfectly reasonable decisions that will definitely not come back to haunt you later.

The goal is simple: do good research, take care of your students, keep the lab running, and perhaps maintain some resemblance of work-life balance.

How hard could it be?

This is just a small personal project made for fun. The characters and events are original fictional creations and they are often intentionally exaggerated. Please don’t take the academic life in it too seriously :)

The game is mainly written in Simplified Chinese, with a full English translation also available.

You can play it here: Lab Life Simulator.

Good luck, Professor.