Games like Aperture Hand Lab
If Aperture Hand Lab is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Lab, Vacation Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, comedic and funny. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Aperture Hand Lab is an adventure title that developer Cloudhead Games Ltd. released in 2019. Valve handled publishing. Its core systems cover finger precision controls, gesture based puzzles, hand tracking interaction, mini game challenges, and vr presence simulation. The design pairs a relaxed difficulty with a short runtime. Its pacing suits short play sessions. Play is single-player only. The title is free to play. On Steam it stands at 88% positive across 1,247 user reviews. Players often describe the tone as atmospheric and comedic. Reviewers single out fun mini games like rock paper scissors, portal universe humor shines in short bursts, showcases valve index controller capabilities, and uses real hand gestures to solve puzzles.
About Aperture Hand Lab: Experience the high fidelity virtual reality of your own hands like never before.
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The Lab
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Shares a whimsical mood with Aperture Hand Lab.
Top pick for Aperture Hand Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
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!
Vacation Simulator
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Shares a funny mood with Aperture Hand Lab.
Second-strongest match for Aperture Hand Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Aperture Hand Lab.
The latest VR sensation from the creators of ‘Job Simulator’, now with free DLC! Welcome to Vacation Simulator: a rough approximation of VACATION inspired by real human NOT JOBBING. Reallocate your bandwidth and get ready to splash, s’more, snowball, and selfie your way to optimal relaxation.
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Aperture Hand Lab.
Third-strongest match for Aperture Hand Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Aperture Hand Lab.
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality smashes together the absolute VR chaos of the award-winning Job Simulator with the ridiculous, all-out, take-no-prisoners comedy of Rick and Morty.
Crazy Factory
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Ranked #4 for Aperture Hand Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Crazy Factory VR is a bunch of silly virtual reality mini-games in an automated robotic factory. You are a robot working in a factory directed by an artificial intelligence. Carve shoes, punch pickaxes, throw crystal glasses and uncover the truth !
Half-Life: Alyx
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Aperture Hand Lab.
Ranked #5 for Aperture Hand Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Aperture Hand Lab.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
BLINNK and the Vacuum of Space
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Ranked #6 for Aperture Hand Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Aperture Hand Lab.
Welcome to deep space station Norpopolis – where a batch of escaped critters are causing chaos! Grab your Vacuumizer 5000 and go undercover with BLINNK the robot to catch them all. VR for autism.
Virtual Virtual Reality
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Aperture Hand Lab.
Ranked #7 for Aperture Hand Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Aperture Hand Lab.
A game about VR, AI, and our collective sci-fi fever dreams. In a future where AI has transformed society, can humans still find purpose? Find out with Activitude, a service that lets humans aid AI clients in increasingly curious ways.
I Expect You To Die
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Shares a comedic mood with Aperture Hand Lab.
Ranked #8 for Aperture Hand Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Aperture Hand Lab.
Test your problem-solving skills in this virtual reality escape-the-room puzzle game. Play as a secret agent armed with telekinetic abilities on a mission to stop Zoraxis, an evil corporation with plans for world domination.
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Pistol Whip
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Another title from Cloudhead Games Ltd., the studio behind Aperture Hand Lab.
Enter: the ultimate action hero. Pistol Whip is a physical action-rhythm game where film-inspired gunplay and blood-pumping beats collide. Blast, duck and dodge your way through fever dream Scenes, build unique rhythms in a ballet of bullets and claim glory on the leaderboards. Includes mod support!
The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Aperture Hand Lab.
Another title from Cloudhead Games Ltd., the studio behind Aperture Hand Lab. Shares Adventure with Aperture Hand Lab.
Embark on the sci-fi epic that started it all at the dawn of modern VR, setting standards for roomscale movement and interaction for years to come. Winner of over 30 awards including "VR Game of the Year", The Gallery is VR's premier adventure series.
The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Aperture Hand Lab.
Another title from Cloudhead Games Ltd., the studio behind Aperture Hand Lab. Shares Adventure with Aperture Hand Lab.
Embark on the sci-fi epic that started it all at the dawn of modern VR, setting standards for roomscale movement and interaction for years to come. Winner of over 30 awards including "VR Game of the Year", The Gallery is VR's premier adventure series.
Heart of the Emberstone: Coliseum
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Another title from Cloudhead Games Ltd., the studio behind Aperture Hand Lab. Shares Adventure with Aperture Hand Lab.
Coliseum gives you a telekinetic playground to wield a mystical power, solve puzzles, and meet "The Beast,” in a slice of fantasy from the VR world of The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone.
Frequently asked about Aperture Hand Lab
- Is Aperture Hand Lab free to play?
- Yes — Aperture Hand Lab is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Aperture Hand Lab?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Aperture Hand Lab are The Lab, Vacation Simulator, Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality.
- Who developed Aperture Hand Lab?
- Aperture Hand Lab was developed by Cloudhead Games Ltd. and published by Valve.
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