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The Lab

by Valve

  • Released Apr 5, 2016
  • Free
  • 1 h to beat
  • Oculus Rift
  • Oculus VR
  • PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • SteamVR
  • Windows Mixed Reality

95%positive reviews

6,366 positive351 negative

What players say

Pros

  • Excellent free VR experience

  • Polished and inventive

Cons

  • Crashes on some hardware

  • Not enough substance for games

Mixed

  • Some call it one of the best VR games, others say it crashes on some systems

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System requirements

Minimum:

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

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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.

Ratings

  • 80IGDB players24 ratings
  • 80Overall24 scores

Time to beat

  • 1 hStory and extraswith side content

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