Portal cover

Portal 2007

Released
October 10, 2007
Genres
Platform · Puzzle · Adventure
Platforms
PlayStation 3 · Linux · Android · PC · Mac · Xbox 360 · Nintendo Switch
Developer
Valve
Rating
80/100 on IGDB
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About this game

Valve's 2007 puzzle game, which shipped inside the Orange Box next to Half-Life 2, its two episodes and Team Fortress 2. You carry a gun that makes two holes, one blue and one orange, and whatever goes into one comes out of the other. Momentum comes with it, and that is the whole game: drop through a hole in the floor, come out of one in a wall, and you leave at the speed you fell. The chambers are numbered and take one idea at a time, while a voice called GLaDOS narrates your progress, politely at first. It is short, and no idea in it is used twice. Each chamber adds a rule to the ones before, so the game ends at the point where it would have started repeating itself.

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