Portal cover art

Portal

2007 · Valve · ~3h to finish

Hard for exactly as long as it takes the idea to arrive, then trivial — a game of realisations rather than of skill.

puzzleshooterPCXbox SeriesNintendo SwitchSteam DeckMetacritic 90
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty4.1MODERATE

You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.

Price on Steam

$9.99

USD · United States · checked 1h ago

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Puzzle
6.5
Learning Curve
2.5
Execution
2.4
Strategy
2.0
Reaction
1.5
Obscurity
1.4
Punishment
0.6
Grind
0.5
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Assist options shave roughly 0.4 points off, if you use them.

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Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 45% · ~2hPuzzle

    the chamber that stops being about geometry and starts being about momentum

    26
  2. 95% · ~3hReaction

    the final confrontation, which is a puzzle wearing a boss costume

    10

Assists & accessibility

0/4 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Generous checkpoints [unsourced]Autosaves every few metres inside a chamber.
  • Save anywhere [unsourced]Quicksave on PC.

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]Full subtitles with sound-effect captions.

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

A first-person puzzle game built around a gun that opens two linked doorways on flat surfaces, set inside an automated test facility. Around three hours long.

Where to go from here

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