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The Lab

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The Lab
The Lab cover
Developers
Valve Corporation
Engines
The Lab / Secret Shop Unity 5[Note 1]
Robot Repair Source 2
Release dates
Windows April 5, 2016
The Lab on MobyGames
The Lab on Wikipedia

Warnings

This game requires a virtual reality headset (see VR support for details).
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Key points

Contains 8 VR mini-games, including:
  • Robot Repair, set in the Portal universe.
  • Slingshot, set in the Portal universe.
  • Secret Shop, set in the Dota universe.
  • Longbow
  • Xortex
  • Postcards
  • Human Medical Scan
  • Solar System

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
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Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Valve\TheLab\PlayerData.txt
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/450390/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Valve\TheLab\PlayerData.txt
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/450390/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Bulgarian
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Danish
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Ukrainian

VR support

This game requires a virtual reality headset.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7 SP1
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-4590
AMD FX-8350
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
AMD Radeon R9 290
A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 5.4.0f3[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/450390/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (450390) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Vetle on 2018-03-19