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Aperture Hand Lab

Cloudhead Games Ltd. · Valve · 2019-06-25

Steam

Adventure

Franchise: Portal · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Jun 25, 2019 (SteamVR)

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

Aperture Hand Lab is a 2019 Adventure game priced at free-to-play, with a review sentiment of Very Positive (86% of 1615 reviews) and an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000.

2
playing now
87%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Aperture Hand Lab is a 2019 virtual reality (VR) game developed by Cloudhead Games and published by Valve. Set in the Portal universe, the player controls a character that has to complete several tests involving hand and finger gestures while being guided by personality cores. The game's plot was written by Erik Wolpaw and Jay Pinkerton.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 99 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~12/week).
  • · Review velocity down 6% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
15515520192026Week of 2019-06-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-14 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 6 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
241Jun 2019Dec 2024Jun 2019 — avg 20 · peak 86Aug 2019 — avg 5 · peak 17Oct 2019 — avg 3 · peak 15Dec 2019 — avg 8 · peak 33Feb 2020 — avg 2 · peak 11Apr 2020 — avg 3 · peak 12Jun 2020 — avg 3 · peak 11Aug 2020 — avg 3 · peak 13Oct 2020 — avg 3 · peak 9Dec 2020 — avg 3 · peak 17Feb 2021 — avg 2 · peak 10Apr 2021 — avg 3 · peak 9Jun 2021 — avg 2 · peak 15Aug 2021 — avg 2 · peak 9Oct 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2021 — avg 3 · peak 14Feb 2022 — avg 3 · peak 8Apr 2022 — avg 2 · peak 8Jun 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Aug 2022 — avg 2 · peak 8Dec 2022 — avg 2 · peak 12Feb 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Oct 2023 — avg 1 · peak 5Jan 2024 — avg 4 · peak 11Mar 2024 — avg 2 · peak 10May 2024 — avg 2 · peak 8Dec 2024 — avg 2 · peak 6
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyFamily Sharing

Player tags

VRFunnyComedySci-fiAdventureFirst-PersonFree to PlaySingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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