Overwhelmingly Positive
Total: 72 ThousandPositive: 71 ThousandNegative: 975
Portal™, a groundbreaking single-player action game from Valve, invites players into the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories. With an AI Community Rating of 91.91%, this game is celebrated for its innovative gameplay, where players solve physics-based puzzles by creating portals to manipulate objects and traverse space. The game’s unique mechanics, combined with its dark humor and iconic antagonist GLaDOS, make it a must-play for puzzle enthusiasts. Community feedback highlights its strengths, praising its fun, satisfying puzzles, and clever humor. However, some players note the game’s short length and repetitive challenges as drawbacks. Despite this, Portal™ remains a highly recommended experience, offering hours of engaging gameplay and a fresh take on puzzle-solving. If you enjoy creative challenges and immersive storytelling, Portal™ is worth the price and more.
The game that got me into PC gaming. I don’t know what it is about Portal specifically, but the world is so interesting and cool to be in, even though it is little more than some reused HL2 assets and short, snappy lines of dialogue. While it’s not my favourite game, it’s definitely in the top 10. So satisfying, so fun, so short. In an era where every game takes 30 hours to complete (if you’re rushing) and shoves a million different mechanics in the hopes of distracting you longer than it’s competitors; it’s so nice and cosy to play a brief game that takes one idea does everything it can think of with it. Also, replaying it all these years later I’d never noticed just how good the soundtrack is.
One of the best puzzle games i have ever played with very interesting wormhole mechanism which utilised object physics like gravity, momentum, angular and motion trajectory of particles etc. and implements them seamlessly in a short, fun experience. Portal is an amazing game which also serves as a great way to learn about basic physics. Highly recommended.
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☑ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10
Portal is a groundbreaking puzzle game that combines mind-bending mechanics with dark humor and unforgettable storytelling. Using the portal gun to solve intricate puzzles feels endlessly satisfying, while GLaDOS’s witty, sinister commentary adds a unique charm. Short but brilliant, it’s an experience that stays with you. Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5)
I am a 45 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my Son, who is 14 now. My son got this game for Christmas in 2022 from his uncle, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just watching YouTube. So i decided to make a Steam account and get this game to see if I could maybe play alongside him. I loaded into the game, picked my character and world and started playing but I was stuck on what you where supposed to do. I asked my Son for help and he hosted a game for me to join. I loved it as it was the best time I had spent with my Son since my wife had died. This game has ever since brought me and my son closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house together as well. This game reminded me that there's fun to be had in everything, and it has brought both me and my Son many happy memories.
Really wanted to like this game. Puzzles were really great, but unfortunately, I play with game controller and the timed puzzles are the absolute worst, as controller is an after thought with this game. It's a shame, because I couldn't complete the second to last puzzle, even though I figured it out, due to the janky controls and time limit.
If you like puzzles, you will enjoy this. If not, you will find out that you don't like puzzles. Like me. Later puzzles demand additional abilities that have nothing to do with puzzle-solving itself: aiming, quick reaction, platforming, and spatial orientation. Many recommend this game to complete beginners. Please, you should stop doing that.
I never finished this as the controls felt uncomfy, and after the first several puzzles they got too complex for me to fucking care whether I solved them or just gave up. As far as free games go, I guess I got my money's worth out of it? I guess that's the best I can say.
i liked the game but was really surprised at how short it is. I thought once you finish the training and then have to escape, the real game starts. And well... it ends right there.. SO quite disappointing... However, it is a pretty good puzzle game but not very hard. Actually pretty easy and the puzzles are somewhat repetitive. It is different and I wouldn't be in a hurry to replay it. Perhaps I might try Portal 2 when it comes on a huge sale otherwise i wouldn't buy it having played through this game. For current price of around £8, i can't recommend this game. Maybe for a couple of £ quid yes but otherwise i don't recommend this game.
Arbitrary Rating: 0/10 ▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱ 🚩🚩 AVOID 🚩🚩 ACHIEVEMENTS ARE BUGGED!!! ALL WAYS TO FIX THIS ERROR END IN FAILURE EVEN ACCORDING TO A GUIDE FROM A SOME USER ON THE STEAM FORUM WHO DID A GREAT JOB THERE TO TRY TO HELP OTHERS WITH THIS GLITCH. VALVE HAS DONE NOTHING ABOUT IT FOR 17 YEARS!!! IT'S A JOKE!!! 🚩🚩 AVOID 🚩🚩
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