1.5 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 40 minutes and 4 hours
92% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
99% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
98% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
98% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
Does The Lab hold up?
It holds steady: between 98% and 99% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
How long would it take you?
Your Steam profile link or name: where you are in The Lab, and how long the rest is at your own pace. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
Nobody holds this page yet
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Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
Do the first two hours of The Lab tell you?
In the first two hours92%recommend it
After that98%recommend it
3 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 17 while a refund was still possible.
56% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 92% of those recommend it. After the window, 98% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 14% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 40 minutes in.
The Lab holds up

Holds up
At least 98% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 20 hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Made this game? Put the seal on your site.
<a href="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/the-lab#seals"><img src="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/the-lab/seal/holds-up.png" width="160" height="160" alt="The Lab: Holds up. At least 98% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 20 hours played."></a>Did everyone who owns The Lab play it?
32 of 32
Steam libraries read here that own it launched it: nobody left it unplayed
How well is The Lab remembered?
1 in 201
Name 100 runs say its name, 0.5% of them: players asked to name 100 games from memory.
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How this page counts
- The hours
- Half of its Steam reviewers had played 1.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 40 minutes and 4 hours. One bead is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 6,740 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
- Everyone's copy
- Counted from the Steam libraries read here, not from all of Steam's players.