Games like Portal
If Portal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Portal 2, Cubin and ChromaGun — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dark humor lands perfectly, contemplative and dark. 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 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.
Players who liked Portal also play
Steam players who put hours into Portal 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.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Shares portal manipulation with Portal.
Top pick for Portal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Portal.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Cubin
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Portal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Portal.
Cubin is a first-person platform puzzle game that immerses you in the LGA experience. Complete 60 experiments to discover the truth about this simulation.
ChromaGun
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Portal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Portal.
Welcome to ChromaTec’s test lab! You’re here to test our state-of-the-art military-grade color-technology: The ChromaGun (patent pending)! Use it to solve our meticulously designed test chambers by painting the walls and droids. Remember how to mix colors from pre-school? Then you qualify!
Quantum Conundrum
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Portal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!
Suicide Guy
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Portal.
Ranked #5 for Portal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Portal.
Suicide Guy is set in the incredibile and extraordinary dreams of its protagonist. What would you do in order to save the thing you love most? Immerse yourself into his weird dreams and help him to wake up before it's too late.
Suicide Guy VR
WHY THIS
Shares physics based puzzles and a dark mood with Portal.
Ranked #6 for Portal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Portal.
Experience Suicide Guy now in Virtual Reality for the greatest, most immersive snooze! These surreal dreams have never been so chaotic and frantic. If you're faint of heart, do not play this game.
Bionic Bay
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Portal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Portal.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
DEPLOYMENT
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Portal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Portal.
An intense competitive top-down shooter: choose your class, capture turrets, progress, and dominate in the arena. top-down shooter, multiplayer shooter, arena shooter, class-based shooter, sci-fi shooter
Reviewers mention these as similar to Portal
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Superliminal
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Portal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Portal.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
The Witness
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Portal cross-mention this title as a similar play.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Shares portal manipulation with Portal.
Reviewers of Portal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Portal.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Portal.
Reviewers of Portal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Portal.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Portal cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
The Talos Principle
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Portal.
Reviewers of Portal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Portal.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
The Entropy Centre
WHY THIS
Shares physics based puzzles and a contemplative mood with Portal.
Reviewers of Portal cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.
The Turing Test
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Portal.
Reviewers of Portal cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Portal at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Portal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Portal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Portal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Portal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Portal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Portal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Portal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Half-Life: Opposing Force
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Portal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal.
Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Portal.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Portal.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Portal.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Valve
Other recommendable Steam games by Valve, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Portal.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Portal. Shares Action with Portal.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Portal. Shares Action with Portal.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Half-Life 2
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Portal.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Portal. Shares Action with Portal.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
Counter-Strike
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Portal. Shares Action with Portal.
Play the world's number 1 online action game. Engage in an incredibly realistic brand of terrorist warfare in this wildly popular team-based game. Ally with teammates to complete strategic missions. Take out enemy sites. Rescue hostages. Your role affects your team's success. Your team's success affects your role.
Counter-Strike: Source
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Portal. Shares Action with Portal.
Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.
Half-Life
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Portal. Shares Action with Portal.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
Half-Life: Alyx
WHY THIS
Shares physics based puzzles with Portal.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Portal. Shares Action with Portal.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
ChromaGun
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Portal.
Welcome to ChromaTec’s test lab! You’re here to test our state-of-the-art military-grade color-technology: The ChromaGun (patent pending)! Use it to solve our meticulously designed test chambers by painting the walls and droids. Remember how to mix colors from pre-school? Then you qualify!
Suicide Guy
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Portal.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Portal.
Suicide Guy is set in the incredibile and extraordinary dreams of its protagonist. What would you do in order to save the thing you love most? Immerse yourself into his weird dreams and help him to wake up before it's too late.
Bionic Bay
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Portal.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
Frequently asked about Portal
- Is Portal verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Portal is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Portal cost?
- Portal is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Portal?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Portal are Portal 2, Cubin, ChromaGun.
- Who developed Portal?
- Portal was developed by Valve.
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 Portal.
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