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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 6,389 reviews of which 6,066 were positive and 323 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

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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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April 2025
been playing it for a tiny bit and im gonna keep playing it until i beat the game. i love it, the atmosphere with the characters in the background, the experiences are fun especially the arson one (very awesome)
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April 2025
What a nice, fun way to introduce VR. Works perfectly on my Quest 3, which you can get for about 380 dollars used as I did. You have to check out Half Life Alyx after you play this.
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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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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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Frequently Asked Questions

The Lab is free to play on Steam.

The Lab is not on sale because is already free to play on Steam.

The Lab received 6,066 positive votes out of a total of 6,389 achieving an impressive rating of 9.17.
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The Lab was developed and published by Valve.

The Lab is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Lab is not playable on MacOS.

The Lab is not playable on Linux.

The Lab is a single-player game.

The Lab does not currently offer any DLC.

The Lab does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Lab does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Lab does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for The Lab.

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Last Updates
Steam data 09 June 2025 10:30
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Steam reviews 13 June 2025 12:02

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The Lab
9.2
6,066
323
Game modes
Online players
12
Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Release 05 Apr 2016
VR VR Only
Platforms