Aperture Hand Lab

Adventure· VR· Free to Play· Funny

Released Jun 2019

Experience the high fidelity virtual reality of your own hands like never before.

86% positive · 1,628 reviews

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All announced content has been released

High confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Steam Free

Evaluation

Aperture Hand Lab is a small, free VR experience released on June 25, 2019, set in the Aperture Science universe (from the Portal series). It was developed by Cloudhead Games and published by Valve as a showcase for VR hand tracking. The store description presents it as a self-contained novelty experience with a humorous tone — its listed "features" (grabbing, shaking, waving) make clear it was designed as a compact demo rather than an evolving game. There is no DLC, no roadmap, no post-launch update announcements, and no developer communications indicating any plans for additional content. The game launched as a finished, standalone product and has remained so.

Evidence

Store description presents Aperture Hand Lab as a self-contained VR hand-tracking experience set in Aperture Science, with no mention of future content, updates, or ongoing development.

description · Jun 25, 2019 source ambiguous

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Short description frames the game as a single, complete VR novelty experience with no indication of planned expansions or updates.

store metadata · Jun 25, 2019 source content shipped

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Details

Developer

Cloudhead Games Ltd.

Publisher

Valve

Achievements

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Platform

Windows

Controller

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Steam Deck

Not rated

Players

Single-player

Adventure VR Free to Play Funny First-Person Sci-fi Comedy

About this game

These Aren't Your Daddy's Hands.

These aren't even your hands. These are precision-tuned sensor-rich re-imaginings of your hands, presented in high-fidelity simulated reality.

Main Features:

Grabbing
Shaking
Waving

If you've always longed to try these exciting edge-of-your-wrist hand maneuvers, but wanted the chance to practice first in the safety of a non-judgmental virtual world, Aperture Hand Lab is easily in the top three options currently available to you in VR.

Presented in the World of Aperture.

You didn’t read that wrong! This game is present in the bowl of ape nature! Hold on, we did read that wrong! But you didn’t, Reading Champ! This game takes place in Aperture Science, home to the modestly popular Portal games your daddy used to play! But this isn’t your daddy’s game! (Return to top.)