BONELAB
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Physics-driven combat using firearms, melee weapons, and bare hands against robotic enemies, skeletons, zombies, and human opponents, with blood splatter on bodies and the environment but no dismemberment.
The game opens with the player character being hanged in an execution before cutting free and escaping.
Some eerie enemies and a hell-themed wave arena create occasional spooky moments, including skeleton and zombie foes.
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What it is
BONELAB is a VR physics-based action-adventure game where the player, a character who escapes a hanging, explores experimental levels inside a mysterious research lab. Gameplay centers on fully simulated body and object physics: you swap between different avatar bodies and fight enemies—robots, faceless humanoid figures, skeletons, zombies, and human opponents—using guns, melee weapons, and your hands, with blood appearing on foes and surfaces. Beyond the campaign it offers a sandbox mode, arena waves, parkour, and go-kart segments. The base game is single-player with no in-app purchases, though the community has built optional third-party multiplayer and content mods separate from the official release.
How it's framed
The game frames its combat as open-ended physics experimentation with an explicit 'no wrong answers' attitude—players are invited to fight, build, or wreak havoc in the sandbox. Violence is directed largely at robotic and undead constructs and is presented mechanically rather than with narrative weight, and the tone is playful and exploratory rather than grim.
Details
- Developer
- Stress Level Zero
- Publisher
- Stress Level Zero
- Released
- Sep 29, 2022
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