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Portal
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2007 first-person puzzle video game
OverviewAI-generated
Portal is a single-player video game developed by Valve and released in 2007. It is classified as an action, puzzle, and adventure title, utilizing the Source engine. The game is part of the Portal franchise and has been released on multiple platforms, including PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch, Android, macOS, and Linux. It carries a Teen ESRB rating.
The game was published on various dates in late 2007, including October 10, November 22, November 23, and December 11. It has sold 4,000,000 units. Review scores include 9.1/10, 90/100, and 87/100, with a Metacritic score of 90 and an IGDB rating of 86 based on 3,966 ratings. The game is priced at 9.99.
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Game data
Metacritic 90- Released
- 2007-10-09
- User rating
- 4.49 / 5
- Genres
- Action, Puzzle
- Platforms
- PC, Nintendo Switch, Android, macOS, Linux, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
- ESRB
- Teen
via RAWG
Game details · IGDB
Waking up in a seemingly empty laboratory, the player is made to complete various physics-based puzzle challenges through numerous test chambers in order to test out the new Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, without an explanation as to how, why or by whom.
- Released
- 2007
- Genres
- Platform, Puzzle, Adventure
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch
- Game modes
- Single player
- Engine
- Source
- Franchise
- Portal
- Developer
- Valve
- Publisher
- Valve, Electronic Arts
Official website
The Orange Box on Steam
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Author
- Kim Swift
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- Valve Corporation
- Series
- Portal
- Followed by
- Portal 2
- Based on
- Narbacular Drop
- Creator
- Valve Corporation
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Cast member
- Ellen McLain
- Composer
- Kelly Bailey
- Developer
- Valve Corporation
- Platform
- macOS
- Game mode
- multiplayer video game
- Game engine
- Source
- Designed by
- Kim Swift
- Official website
- www.whatistheorangebox.com
Show 21 more facts
- Commons category
- Portal (video game)
- characters
- GLaDOS
- distributed by
- Google Play
- publication date
- 2007-10-10
- minimum number of players
- 1
- price
- 9.99
- inventory number
- 934.2012
- input device
- touchscreen
- title
- Portal
- derivative work
- Portal 2
- copyright holder
- Valve Corporation
- language of work or name
- English language
- set in period
- future
- review score
- 90/100
- different from
- Portal
- set in environment
- underground structure
- maximum number of players
- 1
- units sold
- 4000000
- compatible with
- Steam Deck
- published in
- The Orange Box
- hashtag
- portal_1
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Encyclopedic overview
Portal is a 2007 puzzle-platform game developed and published by Valve. It was originally released in a bundle, The Orange Box, for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and has been ported to other systems, including Mac OS X, Linux, Android (via Nvidia Shield), and Nintendo Switch.
Portal consists primarily of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player's character and simple objects using the "Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device", also referred to as the "portal gun", a device that can create intra-dimensional portals between two flat planes. The player character, Chell, is challenged and taunted by an artificial intelligence construct named GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) to complete each puzzle in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center using the portal gun with the promise of receiving cake when all the puzzles are completed. The Source engine's physics system allows kinetic energy to be retained through portals, requiring creative use of portals to maneuver through the test chambers. This gameplay element is based on a similar concept from the game Narbacular Drop; many of the team members from the DigiPen Institute of Technology who worked on Narbacular Drop were hired by Valve for the creation of Portal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Portal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.