The Energy Lab

The Energy Lab

TimeMachine · January 1, 2019 · Adventure, Indie, VR

The Energy Lab is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mixed65% · 34 📉 Recent reviews down 47%
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About The Energy Lab

You find yourself at the threshold of an abandoned lab containing technology of unknown origins.

Welcome to The Energy Lab. You've found your way in, now find a way out.

A new VR short by TimeMachine, creators of Bathroom Break!

A HIGH-END INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE


A typical game may add hours and hours of monotonous, repetitive grinding in hopes of satisfying the player's needs. This short interactive experience does not. We focused on the important elements that will allow you to "experience" at your own pace.

MYSTERY OF THE LAB


What is this place? Why are you here? Use your cunning wit to explore and discover a way out of the lab!

REAL LIFE MOVEMENT


A new style of VR movement allows you to explore with freedom in the most natural way available!

INTERACTABILITY


Interact with levers, buttons, magical gems, and more! Pick them up, put them down, it's all up to you!

We shouldn't say any more! It's time for you to experience The Energy Lab for yourself!

The Energy Lab — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

The Energy Lab is a free VR escape room experience that players find visually decent and functional, but overwhelmingly too short and shallow to justify time investment. Most reviewers criticize the lack of substantial content, noting there is essentially only one puzzle to solve before the experience ends, making it feel more like a tech demo than a complete game. While some find it acceptable as a brief VR novelty, the consensus is that it offers insufficient gameplay depth or length to be worth playing beyond curiosity.

Recommended Apr 9, 2024
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8 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 27, 2020
The Energy Lab is a free VR experience that is Escape the Room like. It worked on my HTC Vive and Index system, looked ok, sounded ok, played ok. Very dark. Very short. Very simple. Try this if you like escape the room games.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Apr 3, 2025
"The Energy Lab" is a really pointless simple VR tech demo... looks like an escape room or something, but there's just one little puzzle to solve. What a waste of our time and a waste of $100 being dumped on Steam Direct. What do you do in the game? One. Thing. That's all folks. You can finish this quicker than the time it takes to install it. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. It's VR exclusive, and that shows the developer failed to understand the most basic axiom of VR game design... if the only cool thing about your product is VR support, your product is not cool. You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality product, this comes across more as a delusion of grandeur than anything else. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protect…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 10, 2025
The Energy Lab — увлекательный образовательный симулятор, сочетающий науку и развлечения. Игрок управляет лабораторией, проводит эксперименты и решает задачи по физике и химии. Графика простая, но чёткая, звуки добавляют атмосферы. Плюсы: интуитивное управление, доступные подсказки, интересные головоломки. Минусы: скудный сюжет, отсутствие глубокой многопользовательской игры. Подойдёт для любознательных и детей. Рекомендую для обучения и развлечения.
Not recommended Nov 15, 2022
Way to short, looks visually great, not enough game though.
Not recommended Nov 23, 2021
THe game runs out of energy 2 minutes in.

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