The Lab on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

The Lab is a free to play, vr and singleplayer game developed and published by Valve.
Released on April 05th 2016 is available only on Windows in 21 languages: English, French, German, Czech, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Swedish, Italian, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 6,325 reviews of which 6,011 were positive and 314 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍

The game is free to play on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10
  • Processor: Intel® i5-4590, AMD FX 8350 equivalent or better
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 970, AMD Radeon™ R9 290 equivalent or better, Video Output: HDMI 1.4, DisplayPort 1.2 or newer
  • VR Support: SteamVR. Standing or Room Scale
  • Additional Notes: 1x USB 2.0 or better port also required

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025
great tech demo and one of the first things i tell people to download when they get VR. the archery game alone is wonderfully addictive.
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Jan. 2025
Good demonstration of VR gaming, recommended to check what you can do in VR, but is too short, so you need to get some games
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Dec. 2024
Pretty fun game overall. Runs great on my PC and over a wired connection to my headset. This game feels like it was made for modding support ala bonelab/garry's mod.
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Nov. 2024
Look, it's free. And it's got some charm to it, since it's made by Valve. Neat little demo for your first VR experience. But also, don't expect much. VR has come a long way. There isn't much interactivity here. Longbow, and Xortex are probably the highlights. Postcards, Human Medical Scan, and Solar System have no interactivity and no dialogue (postcard are just 3D snapshots of some real places, where you can't even move freely). The robot repair room is just a 5-minute Portal short with very little interactivity (bit of a disappointment actually, I thought there'd be more). The secret shop doesn't seem to have any interactivity, and just crashes for me always at a certain scripted point (your mileage may vary, I couldn't be bothered to try to fix it). So yeah, this isn't the same quality as the the Steam Deck tech demo Aperture Desk Job. And if you've played the Meta Quest tech demos on their headset before this (like me), there is nothing new here VR gameplay wise.
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Aug. 2024
It's a great place to start when getting into VR. Gives you a basic rundown of VR and it's capabilities. Not much replay value, but all the activities are great. The Portal-themed levels are obviously the best ones lmao.
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The Lab
9.2
6,011
314
Online players
23
Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Release 05 Apr 2016
VR VR Only
Platforms