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Crawling Lab

First-person roguelike shooter with gun upgrades in an AI-controlled lab

eTIRUe · Released Jun 16, 2024

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Reviews
Very Positive
81% of 772
Recent reviews
Not enough recent
Players
7
daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Last update on Steam
1 month ago
Sep 17, 2026
Minimum PC
DirectX 12 GPU
8 GB RAM · 4 GB disk
Full requirements

What is Crawling Lab?

A first-person roguelike shooter set in a secret mountain laboratory taken over by an AI. Sent to retrieve research materials, you fight hostile artificial life forms, gather ammo, and upgrade guns as you try to escape across repeated runs.

For you if...

  • +you like experimenting with gun upgrades across repeated runs
  • +you enjoy managing ammo during first-person combat
  • +you want adult-themed enemy designs in an action game

Not for you if...

  • −you expect explicit scenes from the sexual content tag
  • −you prefer plentiful ammo from the start
  • −you dislike repeating combat in the same laboratory

What players say

81% of 772 reviews are positive

Players praise the shooting, enemy designs, and upgrades that encourage different weapon setups. Common complaints include scarce ammo before upgrades, repetitive areas, and less explicit sexual content than some expected.

How many players finish Crawling Lab?

43% of Steam players have unlocked «The Ghost of the Laboratory», the achievement for finishing the main story.

Share of everyone who owns the game on Steam, including those who barely played it. Updated weekly.

Screenshots and trailer

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Crawling Lab system requirements

Minimum: DirectX 12 GPU, 8 GB RAM, 4 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

OS
All newer version of Windows 10 (newer than version 1909.1350) and Windows 11 with support for DirectX 12 Agility SDK are supported.
Processor
Quad-core Intel or AMD, 2.5 GHz or faster
Graphics
DirectX 12 (with Shader Model 6.6 atomics), or Vulkan (VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64)
Memory
8 GB RAM
Storage
4 GB available space
DirectX
Version 12

Recommended

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Does Crawling Lab have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Does Crawling Lab run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

  • Default controller config not fully functional
  • Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
  • Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
  • The native resolution is not the default one
  • Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM
None declared on Steam
Controller
Keyboard and mouse
Platforms
Windows
Achievements
20
Steam features
Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Languages
Full audio: Korean. Text only: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese.

Does Crawling Lab use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam

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