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Games like Portal

2007PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified98 % positive9.69 €

A tight first-person puzzler where you bend space with a portal gun through physics-based test chambers, all while the passive-aggressive AI GLaDOS taunts you with pitch-black humor. Brilliant mechanics, perfect pacing and an iconic twist make it a classic.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Lots of humour
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lavish presentation

The closest matches for Portal are Quantum Conundrum, Portal Stories: VR and Thomas Was Alone. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Portal special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Quantum Conundrum

95 %Match

2012PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable84 % positive8.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Portal: puzzles to figure out, a sci-fi setting and plenty of humour.

A first-person puzzle game set in an eccentric professor's mansion where you shift dimensions to change objects' weight, gravity and time to solve test chambers. It has dry humor and a cartoonish look.

Portal Stories: VR

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short VR spin-off in the Portal universe with ten new room-scale puzzles. You use a teleportation device and a retrieval tool to solve Aperture Science tests, wrapped in the series' dry humor.

Thomas Was Alone

Puzzles and brain teasers

A minimalist puzzle-platformer where you guide a group of coloured rectangles, each with their own abilities and personalities, through cooperative levels. A witty British narrator gives the simple shapes surprising warmth and emotional depth.

Rochard

Puzzles and brain teasers

As space miner John Rochard, you solve physics-based puzzles with a gravity tool that moves objects and doubles as a weapon. A humorous sci-fi adventure mixing platforming and light action.

Superliminal

Lavish presentation

A first-person puzzle game set in a dream where perspective is reality: objects grow or shrink depending on how you look at them. Short and mind-bending, with dry humor and a surprisingly reflective message.

The Entropy Centre

Lavish presentation

A first-person puzzle game where a time-rewinding gun lets you send objects back through their past to solve clever challenges. It wraps this in a sci-fi mystery set in a strange research facility, with a chatty AI companion.

Planet of the Eyes

Pure single-player experience

A short, atmospheric puzzle-platformer where you play an exploration robot on an alien planet, solving environmental puzzles and uncovering a mystery through audio logs.

Blackhole

Sci-fi setting

A sci-fi platformer where you play the crew's coffee maker and use gravity-twisting mechanics to beat tricky puzzles and jumping sections. A humorous story carries you through a lengthy campaign.

ChromaGun

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzler where you paint walls and robots with a color gun to lure droids around, opening doors, hitting switches and neutralizing hazards. Portal-style test chambers are wrapped in dry humor.

Yupitergrad

Lots of humour

A VR platformer set in a Soviet-flavored dieselpunk space, where you swing through zero gravity with grappling hooks. Quirky humor and tricky skill-based puzzles define the experience.

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