Windows

Portal

Description

Aperture Science is a secret weapons research organization in competition with Black Mesa. Chell is a test subject at the "Enrichment Center" facility who awakens to find an A.I. construct called GlaDOS requiring some tasks to be completed. They are testing the Aperture Handheld Portal Device (aka Portal Gun) which is able to create portals in space, allowing Chell to move from one point to another without actually crossing the distance. Chell is promised cake should she be able to overcome the obstacles and perform the necessary tests.

She has to use her new gun to fling, jump and fall her way through 19 puzzles. These include obstacles but also androids that fire at her. Although the game is played as a first-person shooter, a large amount of strategy and puzzle-solving is involved. After completing the game, two additional game modes become available: Challenge where the game needs to be completed in either as little time, as few footsteps or as few portals as possible. The other mode is Advanced, where levels are made harder through additional obstacles.

The game is set in the Half-Life universe and it is considered the spiritual successor to Narbacular Drop, some of whose original developers worked on this game. The Windows game can be bought stand-alone, while the Xbox 360 version is only available in The Orange Box.

Alternate Titles

• "ポータル" -- Japanese spelling
• "포털" -- Korean title

Part of the Following Groups

• 3D Engine: Source
• Female protagonists
• Half-Life series

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The Press Says

Common Sense Media	Apr 09, 2008		100
Gamernode	Oct 16, 2007	9.5 out of 10	95
2404.org PC Gaming	Mar 10, 2008	9.1 out of 10	91
Adventure Gamers	May 12, 2008		90
GameStar (Germany)	Oct 31, 2007	90 out of 100	90
Gamigo	Oct 14, 2007	8.9 out of 10	89
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Nov, 2007	85 out of 100	85
IGN	Oct 09, 2007	8.2 out of 10	82
Vgames	Oct 21, 2007	82 out of 100	82
PlayDevil	Jan 11, 2008		80

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Steam can't so I can't play	3	Kitsune Sniper (10782) Nov 19, 2009
Incorrectly grouped	5	Sciere (119383) Feb 17, 2009
The Device Has Been Modified	2	DJP Mom (10805) Jan 17, 2009
Portal and Steam	14	Sam Jeffreys (3331) Apr 29, 2008
Some glitch videos... if you want to look at 'em.	3	Pseudo_Intellectual (34048) Apr 15, 2008
2D Flash version of Portal	1	Pseudo_Intellectual (34048) Jan 27, 2008
Still Alive	15	St_Martyne (3563) Nov 07, 2007
Portal != Portal	4	Pseudo_Intellectual (34048) Oct 25, 2007

Trivia

Portal was named #1 Game of the Year in the 2007 PC Game Awards issue of Games for Windows Magazine (March 2008).