Games like The Portal Trial
If The Portal Trial is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ingression, ReDrop and Knight And Mourning — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About The Portal Trial: Ingression: The Portal Trial offers a sneak peek into the immersive world of precision platforming with portals. Experience the prologue of the full game for free, tackling not only the initial levels but also venturing into more challenging stages.
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Steam players who put hours into The Portal Trial also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Ingression
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Top pick for The Portal Trial fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Portal Trial.
Ingression is an unforgiving & mind-bending precision platformer where you'll think and platform with seamless portals. Travel to the future to save the past from a tremendous time paradox.
ReDrop
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Second-strongest match for The Portal Trial fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Portal Trial.
DIE, REDROP, REPEAT. In this Platformer, every Death leaves a platform behind; Climb your mistakes! RAGE, CRY, ADAPT. Then do it all again. Try now and prove you're only *mostly* bad.
Knight And Mourning
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Third-strongest match for The Portal Trial fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Portal Trial.
Do you like 2D platformers? Are you constantly complaining about how bad you are at them? Well, continue to complain! Even if you think you are good at Knight And Mourning, you aren't.
MineRalph
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Ranked #4 for The Portal Trial fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Portal Trial.
Roll your way through a hard-core, high-speed, fury-inducing, nail-biting, reaction-based physics-platformer where momentum and skill is the difference between making the jump and falling to your death.
Super Meat Boy
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Ranked #5 for The Portal Trial fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Portal Trial.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
1 Screen Platformer
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Ranked #6 for The Portal Trial fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Portal Trial.
This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS. There is an EASY mode and a HARD mode depending on your skill level.
Will You Snail?
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Ranked #7 for The Portal Trial fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Portal Trial.
A unique platformer where an evil AI predicts your movement. Dodge AI-spawned traps, solve optional puzzles and uncover the dark secrets of the simulation. Now with a level editor and infinite community-made content!
Downwell
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Ranked #8 for The Portal Trial fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Portal Trial.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Ingression
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Portal Trial.
Ingression is an unforgiving & mind-bending precision platformer where you'll think and platform with seamless portals. Travel to the future to save the past from a tremendous time paradox.
Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Portal Trial.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
1 Screen Platformer
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Portal Trial.
This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS. There is an EASY mode and a HARD mode depending on your skill level.
Will You Snail?
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Portal Trial.
A unique platformer where an evil AI predicts your movement. Dodge AI-spawned traps, solve optional puzzles and uncover the dark secrets of the simulation. Now with a level editor and infinite community-made content!
Downwell
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Portal Trial.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Frequently asked about The Portal Trial
- Is The Portal Trial verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Portal Trial is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- Is The Portal Trial free to play?
- Yes — The Portal Trial is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to The Portal Trial?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Portal Trial are Ingression, ReDrop, Knight And Mourning.
- Who developed The Portal Trial?
- The Portal Trial was developed by Espale Studios.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Portal Trial.
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