Single-player games like Aperture Hand Lab
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Aperture Hand Lab, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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The Lab
Single-player alternative to Aperture Hand Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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!
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Vacation Simulator
Single-player alternative to Aperture Hand Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
Single-player alternative to Aperture Hand Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Crazy Factory
Single-player alternative to Aperture Hand Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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 !
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Half-Life: Alyx
Single-player alternative to Aperture Hand Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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BLINNK and the Vacuum of Space
Single-player alternative to Aperture Hand Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Virtual Virtual Reality
Single-player alternative to Aperture Hand Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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I Expect You To Die
Single-player alternative to Aperture Hand Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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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Portal
Single-player alternative to Aperture Hand Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Pistol Whip
Single-player alternative to Aperture Hand Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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!
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The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed
Single-player alternative to Aperture Hand Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone
Single-player alternative to Aperture Hand Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Heart of the Emberstone: Coliseum
Single-player alternative to Aperture Hand Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.