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The White Laboratory

Laboratory Systems · 2019-03-28

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 29, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The White Laboratory is a sandbox style physics-based tower defense and RTS game in which you modularly build and command robotic structures. Use them to defend against or conquer other disobedient mechanical blocks on a facility floating in the atmosphere of a remote gas planet.

1
playing now
77%
positive of 363 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

It is about time for our quadrennial operation check through various parts of the facility. In the series of missions, combine robotic modular geometry components into different structures to adapt to combat situations. Build ground defenses around, send propeller air probes, attract and transfer scrap resources, and anything else the physics allows. Clean up anything unwanted to complete the maintenance task.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 41% of 18,324 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.1k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 363 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2021-04-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.992019-03-292026-07-092019-03-29 — best price $8.992019-05-06 — best price $9.992019-10-28 — best price $8.992019-11-12 — best price $9.992019-12-19 — best price $5.992020-01-27 — best price $9.992020-06-25 — best price $4.992020-11-02 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $3.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-06-24 — best price $2.992021-11-01 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $2.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-06-23 — best price $2.992022-09-22 — best price $9.992022-12-22 — best price $2.992023-01-23 — best price $9.992023-04-19 — best price $2.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-12-22 — best price $2.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $2.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $2.992025-04-25 — best price $9.992025-09-29 — best price $2.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-05-02 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Player tags

RTSIndieSci-fiPhysicsSandboxStrategyTower DefenseReal-Time with Pause

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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