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Games like Portal

Valve · 2007 · 98 % positive of 177,741

24 games that play like Portal and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Portal 2, Portal 2 - The Final Hours and Bridge Constructor Portal.

Player tags

  • Puzzle
  • Puzzle-Platformer
  • First-Person
  • 3D Platformer
  • Singleplayer
  • Sci-fi
  • Comedy
  • Female Protagonist

At a glance

What games like Portal have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Portal: First-Person (22 of 24), Puzzle (17) and Sci-fi (12).
  • They came out between 1998 and 2023, 19 of them after Portal (2007).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Portal 2 (98 % positive of 433,510).
  • 5 games both play and look like Portal, among them Portal 2, Portal 2 Sixense Perceptual Pack and Aperture Hand Lab.

By gameplay

Plays like Portal

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Viewfinder94 % positive of 8,505Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · First-Person
  2. The Entropy Centre90 % positive of 3,679Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · First-Person
  3. Polarity79 % positive of 4,690Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Sci-fi
  4. Half-Life 2: Deathmatch90 % positive of 14,296Shared: First-Person · Sci-fi · Physics
  5. Half-Life: Source68 % positive of 16,056Shared: First-Person · Sci-fi · Classic
  6. Half-Life: Alyx98 % positive of 97,229Shared: First-Person · Sci-fi · Female Protagonist
  7. The Escaper93 % positive of 761Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Physics
  8. Half-Life: Opposing Force95 % positive of 25,561Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Sci-fi
  9. Attempt[42]57 % positive of 340Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · First-Person
  10. Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube87 % positive of 707Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Platformer
  11. Supraland95 % positive of 13,154Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · First-Person
  12. Black Mesa95 % positive of 127,693Shared: First-Person · Sci-fi · Classic

By look

Looks like Portal

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Q.U.B.E. 284 % positive of 1,655
  2. Budget Cuts80 % positive of 1,845
  3. Viscera Cleanup Detail92 % positive of 22,290
  4. The Turing Test87 % positive of 7,894
  5. Portal 298 % positive of 433,510
  6. Magnetic: Cage Closed67 % positive of 340
  7. Gravitas98 % positive of 6,875
  8. SCP: Secret Laboratory91 % positive of 214,309
  9. Luna Sky61 % positive of 231
  10. Cosmodread91 % positive of 405
  11. RetroSpace89 % positive of 488
  12. SCP: Fragmented Minds92 % positive of 842

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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