The Lab
BANGER · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
PLAY IT.
A BANGER, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 6,718
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Shooter
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1h
- To 100%
- 1.9h 1.9x the story
Players and genre
- Online
- 14 now
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SuchArt: Creative Space (free, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Anarchy Arcade (free, scores 21).
Its player count is falling. 84 were online at the highest of our weekly checks over 35 days, 14 at the last one, on Nov 4, 03:46 UTC.
More about The Lab
Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 267 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 64 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Lab scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/450390/the-labReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.