FLYBRAIN LAB
Launches 13 October 2026 · PC · Indie, Simulation
An experimental simulator about a digitized fruit fly. Press buttons, change conditions and stimuli, observe its reactions, and repeat experiments to uncover the logic behind its behavior. Simple mechanics, strange results, and pure curiosity.
Story
FLYBRAIN LAB is a lab simulator where you study the digitized brain of a fruit fly. You get a tank holding a brain of 139,255 neurons, a lab bench and two buttons: dopamine and shock. Give the fly tasks, reward it, punish it and watch how it behaves. You can't control the fly directly: it has its own personality and its own moods. A happy fly gets to work eagerly and does better, while an offended one may start sabotaging things. On top of that, it remembers what it was praised and punished for, so be careful. RUN EXPERIMENTS! The lab has 70 experiments, all available from the start. The fly can conduct an orchestra of flies, cockroaches and spiders, take on a cockroach in a cooking contest, play poker, blackjack and durak (a classic Russian card game) against it, go on dates, brew beer, trade on the stock market, paint and even choose between a cigarette and saving a fellow fly. Features 70 experiments: cooking, cards, dating, music, sports, building and plenty of absurd situations. A fly with its own personality, moods and memory of rewards and punishments. An orchestra with a score editor and MIDI file import. A fly farm whose colony grows and keeps living between...
Gameplay
FLYBRAIN LAB is a lab simulator where you study the digitized brain of a fruit fly. You get a tank holding a brain of 139,255 neurons, a lab bench and two buttons: dopamine and shock. Give the fly tasks, reward it, punish it and watch how it behaves. You can't control the fly directly: it has its own personality and its own moods. A happy fly gets to work eagerly and does better, while an offended one may start sabotaging things. On top of that, it remembers what it was praised and punished for, so be careful. RUN EXPERIMENTS! The lab has 70 experiments, all available from the start. The fly can conduct an orchestra of flies, cockroaches and spiders, take on a cockroach in a cooking contest, play poker, blackjack and durak (a classic Russian card game) against it, go on dates, brew beer, trade on the stock market, paint and even choose between a cigarette and saving a fellow fly. Features 70 experiments: cooking, cards, dating, music, sports, building and plenty of absurd situations. A fly with its own personality, moods and memory of rewards and punishments. An orchestra with a score editor and MIDI file import. A fly farm whose colony grows and keeps living between game sessions. A sandbox with toys, sugar, a fly swatter and a cowboy hat. Disclaimer FLYBRAIN LAB has nothing to do with real scientific experiments on fly neurons. It's a tongue-in-cheek...
Features
- Single-player
- Steam Achievements
- Custom Volume Controls
- Keyboard Only Option
- Mouse Only Option
- #category_playable_at_your_own_pace
- Playable without Timed Input
- Stereo Sound
Developed by Aquora, BMBK Games. Published by BMBK Games.