Portal
Main game
4.45 average rating based on 14274 ratings
- Developers
- Valve
- Publishers
- Electronic Arts, Valve
- Franchises
- Portal
- Series
- Portal
- Platforms
- Android, Linux, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
- Genres
- Adventure, Platform, Puzzle
- Themes
- Action, Comedy, Science fiction
- Steam
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b_n's review of Portal
1001 Games - #783
Pros: clever puzzles that are fun to solve, great use of humour and voice acting
Cons: short length
Recommendation: a true not-so-modern-anymore classic, there's no reason not to have played Portal and/or its sequel.
Just did my yearly replay of Portal... with RTX. Newly bought a 4070 Super so great opportunity to test it. As good as ever! Visuals were amazing.
This is very sad news.
Valve request takes down Portal 64 due to concerns over Nintendo involvement
I've finally started playing this after hearing about it forever.
I'm mostly curious about
Now THIS is a Portal modification I can get behind.
El pastel es una mentira
Portal es un juego de rompecabezas creado por Valve en 2007, usando la novedad de los portales para poder plantear puzzles retadores para todo jugador que lo juegue. Con una historia que poco a poco cobra sentido y una misteriosa IA que te sigue a todos lados. Si tienes la oportunidad cómpralo en las siguientes ofertas de Steam!
Completion Status:
Completed the full game.
This is pretty neat! Portal ported to the N64.
Grabbed this for the Switch to give me something to play while my wife watches baseball. It's so much fun and so different from the two other great games I'm playing right now on Xbox (Elden Ring and Psychonauts 2).
A Series of My Favorite Video Game Songs with Lyrics
9. Still Alive
There aren't a ton of iconic credits songs. Basically this and Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional for Spider-Man 2.
Fun Fact- If you look up the word "vindicated" on Google, the song which is from the album "Spider-Man 2" is the second result behind the definition of the word. Wild.
Still Alive is iconic for three major reasons. First, it is very surprising that the villain of the game sings a song about the game over the credits. I can't think of any other media that does that outside of, uh, Portal 2. Second the song is very simple. I refuse to check but I am confident there are one billion covers of this on youtube. Third, the song is catchy. The first thing I did after beating Portal was watching the credits again so I could hear this song.
GLaDos may be evil, but she has pipes!
I thought this game would be too old for me to enjoy but no, the story actually makes it quite fun and now I'm kind of excited to give Portal 2 another try (I stopped playing after becoming too frustrated with a level).
When this game is on sale, it is such a must buy for the price. If even someone who is not that much into puzzle games like me enjoys it, I can barely think of anyone who wouldn't.
Seems like lately, I’ve been thinking about games more than I’ve playing them, and currently, I’m thinking about Portal 1. I am considering bumping up my score for this one a bit. I replayed recently with a more “objective” POV, and I realized how much of the game’s twists, turns and tricks were spoil to me before playing it.
Internet culture in the late ’00s/early '10s was filled with Portal references, stuff about a cake and fake news. It was everywhere, so, when I decided to play a Portal game for the first time, I started with the sequel because I knew so much about the original. Portal 2 ended up being one of my favorite games ever and a tough act to follow; playing Portal 1 after that kinda made me look down on it.
With this new “objective” perspective I can now appreciate the tightly made puzzles, the slow-burn story and gameplay. At the same time, its short length and the fact that it gives motion sickness, are points against it. I might have to play more in order to form my opinion on it, it ironically got me thinking more than its sequel.