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Portal

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.

Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Franchise
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Release date
Oct 10, 2007
Store page updated
Apr 23, 2025
Price
$9.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

94.2/ 100

Based on 397 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 98% of 1,081
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 99% of 199,226
“mandatory gaming experience for puzzle enthusiasts”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+3.31
Difficulty +2.32
“difficulty increases gradually and remains fair throughout” (38)
Игра проходится на одном дыхании и довольно быстро. Поначалу всё кажется лёгким, но ближе к концу головоломки становятся всё сложнее и сложнее, из-за чего приходится реально думать, как пройти тот или иной уровень. При этом игра не успевает надоесть за время прохождения. Отдельно хочется отметить озвучку GLaDOS - она просто топовая и отлично дополняет атмосферу игры. Моя оценка игре - 10 тортов из 10.

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+3.75
Story +3.55
“must play for story, puzzles, and ideas” (38)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+0.78
Volume -0.94
“short game if you know what you're doing” (65)

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Visuals & Sound
+3.32
Audio +3.54

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+3.75

Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +3.50

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
+3.21

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Monetization +2.41

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
+0.87

Not enough data — only 6% of reviews mention this.

Performance +2.81

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
90%92%94%96%98%100%
Oct 2010Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 1,065 reviews, peak 47/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 397 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English42%
  • Russian19%
  • Spanish10%
  • Portuguese9%
  • Chinese6%
  • Turkish5%
  • Other9%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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