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BONELAB

Stress Level Zero · 2022-09-29

Steam

ActionAdventureSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 29, 2022 (SteamVR), Sep 29, 2022 (Meta Quest 2)

BONELAB is an experimental physics action game. Explore a mysterious lab filled with weapons, enemies, challenges and secrets. Escape your reality, or wreak havoc. No wrong answers.

570
playing now
82%
positive of 20k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
2
twitch viewers (latest)
81/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
82/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$39.99
steam price (US)

570 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Bonelab is a 2022 video game developed and published by American studio Stress Level Zero. It is a sequel to the 2019 game Boneworks. The player controls an outcast that escapes death and explores experimental worlds in a research lab in MythOS. Bonelab was released for Windows and Meta Quest 2 on September 29, 2022, and later for the Meta Quest 3 on October 10, 2023, and then for the Meta Quest 3S just over a year later on October 15, 2024.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 570 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,459 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~307/week).
  • · Review velocity up 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 7% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 405k–912k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 20,267 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $31.99 at Humble Store (2022-12-05)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 9 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.5k3.5k20222026Week of 2022-09-01: 2,409 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 718 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3,544 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1,222 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 987 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 151 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 407 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 136 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 310 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 104 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 338 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 206 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 220 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 262 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 245 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 260 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 260 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 266 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 350 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 245 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 269 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 249 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 268 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 275 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 350 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 282 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 17 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5732362026-08-06 22:00 — 476 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 306 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 351 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 463 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 282 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 374 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 493 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 302 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 336 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 504 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 248 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 355 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 525 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 244 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 394 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 435 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 241 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 354 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 516 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 296 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 295 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 462 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 351 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 306 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 443 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 304 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 268 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 485 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 428 players2026-08-30 17:00 — 570 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$31.992022-09-292026-08-132022-09-29 — best price $39.992022-12-23 — best price $31.992023-02-07 — best price $39.992023-03-23 — best price $39.992023-05-23 — best price $39.992023-06-29 — best price $31.992023-08-25 — best price $39.992023-11-17 — best price $31.992023-12-04 — best price $31.992024-01-04 — best price $39.992024-01-30 — best price $36.792024-03-14 — best price $31.992024-05-21 — best price $39.992024-07-04 — best price $39.992024-08-15 — best price $31.992024-11-04 — best price $39.992024-12-02 — best price $39.992024-12-12 — best price $39.992025-01-23 — best price $31.992025-03-20 — best price $39.992025-06-26 — best price $31.992025-09-04 — best price $39.992025-10-23 — best price $31.992025-12-04 — best price $39.992026-01-05 — best price $39.992026-03-19 — best price $31.992026-05-28 — best price $39.992026-08-13 — best price $31.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

702026-08-29 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 7 viewers2026-08-30 03:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-30 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 06:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-30 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-30 09:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-30 10:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-30 12:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-30 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 16:35 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 17:34 — 2 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

55
achievements tracked
85.7%
earned "Backstage"
29.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6,4723%55

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

VRFPSIndieActionCombatPuzzlePhysicsSandboxShooterViolent

Census log

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

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