Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Very Positive (483 reviews) - 93% of the 483 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.
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Overwhelmingly Positive (27,235 reviews) - 98% of the 27,235 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date: 10 Oct, 2007

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Includes 5 items: Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal, Team Fortress 2

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"A first-person physics puzzler developed by Valve. Use a Portal Gun to navigate a series of tests as a human lab rat, guided by the friendly A.I. GLaDOS"

About This Game

Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

The game is designed to change the way players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment; similar to how Half-Life® 2's Gravity Gun innovated new ways to leverage an object in any given situation.

Players must solve physical puzzles and challenges by opening portals to maneuvering objects, and themselves, through space.

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    Minimum: 1.7 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX® 8.1 level Graphics Card (Requires support for SSE), Windows® 7 (32/64-bit)/Vista/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

    Recommended: Pentium 4 processor (3.0GHz, or better), 1GB RAM, DirectX® 9 level Graphics Card, Windows® 7 (32/64-bit)/Vista/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

    Minimum: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, 1GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8 or higher, ATI X1600 or higher, or Intel HD 3000 or higher Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection
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Very Positive (483 reviews)
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Overwhelmingly Positive (27,235 reviews)
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ariaadagio
4.1 hrs on record
Posted: 19 August
Didn't take me much longer than an eye blink to finish the main story, but I found it to be a very enjoyable diversion. The game consists primarily of spatial puzzles. You play a silent protagonist who is running through a figurative rat maze while a deeply snarky and sarcastic antagonist makes commentary (that had me laughing in quite a few instances). It's good to finally have context for "the cake is a lie" - something most old-time FPSers from the Doom/Quake/Half-Life era will have heard at least once before. If you'd like a quick puzzle jaunt, do pick this game up. If you've never played a puzzle game before and aren't sure if you like puzzles yet, give it a whirl. I'd say this is a fantastic and unique entry into the genre.
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Bip
4.2 hrs on record
Posted: 19 August
entertaining but too short (4 hours -_-)
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professer duk
3.5 hrs on record
Posted: 19 August
10/10 would throw up again
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Swiss_Guy
6.9 hrs on record
Posted: 19 August
Play this iconic game and train your grey brain cells. YOU MONSTER
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Metacomet10
2.4 hrs on record
Posted: 19 August
10/10 would murder giant AI robot hell-bent on testing forever again
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johnarcher1998
4.0 hrs on record
Posted: 18 August
Great game with an extraordinary look at motion in games. You won't know how crazy it feels to go through a portal until you have. Portal 2 is better though.
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Seppuku | BUILD A WALL
2.1 hrs on record
Posted: 18 August
Not the cube. ANYTHING BUT THE CUBE!
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superrobotman
2.5 hrs on record
Posted: 18 August
its cool
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twactical nuke incoming
1.4 hrs on record
Posted: 18 August
Intressting game, finished in less then 2 hours.

10/10 would get cake again
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dhins333
4.7 hrs on record
Posted: 17 August
Good game has a great concept and a bit of humour.
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Most Helpful Reviews  In the past 30 days
9 of 9 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
2.9 hrs on record
Posted: 23 July
I can easily say that portal is one of Valve's best games. The idea of using portals to solve puzzles and avoid obstacles is just great. My only complaint is that it's rather short, but there are bonus levels that are the original test chambers but with an increase in difficulty. If you haven't purchased portal yet, then I would suggest waiting until the summer sale to buy the portal bundle for dirt cheap like I did.
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5 of 5 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
19.3 hrs on record
Posted: 21 July
Will always be one of my favourite PC games ever, if you love Valve's Half-Life universe and want to see it from a different perspective then it really doesn't get any better than Portal.

Great puzzle game with some challenging sections (also includes advanced maps for those looking to raise the difficulty a bit) and a script full of great humour.

I think the most important factor to mention is the fact that even players with little to no interest in puzzle games can still appreciate and enjoy this - and that says something about the quality of this game as a whole.

9/10
★★★★½
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4 of 4 people (100%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
Recommended
3.5 hrs on record
Posted: 23 July
This game is so much fun! I still play it! Going to go get Portal 2 now!
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4 of 4 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
3.3 hrs on record
Posted: 27 July
What can I say about this so famous game? Well, I guess it was amazing 10 years ago and I can see why people loved this one.

Unfortunately my expectations were maybe too high and so I was "disappointed". The game is pretty good but I was hoping for a masterpiece and as always happens with expectations I got screwed by my own unrealistic desire. Memo: Live the moment!

In fact if I think about the hours I spent playing this I can feel I actually had fun. The puzzles were not too hard, but the sense of wonder about how portals work was cool and I enjoyed that.

Too bad sometimes I had to fight the game itself (crates falling, setting portals were I wanted to, jumping). The other big issue was I got motion sickness eventually.

The last level was very cool (and way longer than I thougt) but the "boss fight" was not excpetional (again expetations vs reality).

Anyway this is a very good game, as everybody knows so I would raccomand it to anyone who doesn't NEED to kill stuff to have fun

+ Nice story
+ Very cool setting
+ Cool puzzles

- Maybe a little bit outdated
- Controls (see description)
- The portal sound effect is too loud for the music
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3 of 3 people (100%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
Recommended
22.0 hrs on record
Posted: 22 July
I love portal, I completed it 3 times. I'm already doing all the challenges. I need money to fund my Portal addiction,Please help.
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
10.9 hrs on record
Posted: 17 August
It's a more pleasant piece of ♥♥♥♥ that Valve has dropped in the past.
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
10.4 hrs on record
Posted: 3 August
An expertly designed game with balanced puzzles, a great story, memorable characters, and overall just a fantastic game.
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
0.2 hrs on record
Posted: 17 August
Good game if you like puzzle games
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
8.1 hrs on record
Posted: 16 August
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
6.1 hrs on record
Posted: 21 July
Very solid game. It introduces you to the robot-run world and the world of testing. The story is fun in that it introduces you to the setting and characters through a slow burn story approach
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