Games like Portal 2
If Portal 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Portal, It Takes Two and Cubin — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, comedic and funny. 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 →Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle game released by Valve in 2011. Players navigate physics-defying test chambers using portal-manipulation mechanics across a narrative-driven campaign. The game supports local co-op puzzle-solving and includes a custom-level-creation system. It runs verified on Steam Deck at a price of $9.99 USD. Reviewers report a 99% positive reception from over 169,000 Steam reviews. Players describe the experience as challenging and comedic, highlighting characters like Wheatley as memorable and noting that the co-op campaign is a standout feature. The modding potential has been described as nearly limitless, with the portal puzzles encouraging creative thinking.
About Portal 2: The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Players who liked Portal 2 also play
Steam players who put hours into Portal 2 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
WHY THIS
Shares portal manipulation with Portal 2.
Top pick for Portal 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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.
It Takes Two
WHY THIS
Shares co op puzzle solving and a funny mood with Portal 2.
Second-strongest match for Portal 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal 2.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Cubin
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Portal 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal 2.
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.
Breaking Box
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Portal 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Portal 2.
Breaking Box is a 3D multiplayer game with a level editor in-game. You can create your own levels, challenge levels, and enjoy the competition with friends!
Carry The Glass
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Portal 2.
Ranked #5 for Portal 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Portal 2.
Team up as two quirky construction workers in this fun 2-player co-op platformer! Carry a fragile glass window through colorful levels filled with challenges. Communicate and coordinate to dodge obstacles and solve puzzles. Can you finish the job without breaking the glass?
Suicide Guy
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Portal 2.
Ranked #6 for Portal 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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.
Trine 2: Complete Story
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Portal 2.
Ranked #7 for Portal 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal 2.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
Dreampainters
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Portal 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal 2.
Put your creativity to the test in this first-person puzzle game! Discover the surreal world of an artist's dreams and use a paintbrush to unfold its mysteries with striking colors. Or grab a friend to paint your dreams together in two-player co-op mode!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Portal 2
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.
Portal
WHY THIS
Shares portal manipulation with Portal 2.
Reviewers of Portal 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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.
Pony Island
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Portal 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Portal 2.
Reviewers of Portal 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Portal 2.
There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!
CONTROL Ultimate Edition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Portal 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal 2.
Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Prey
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Portal 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal 2.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Portal 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal 2.
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.
The Stanley Parable
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Portal 2.
Reviewers of Portal 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Portal 2.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
Baba Is You
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Portal 2.
Reviewers of Portal 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Portal 2 at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Portal 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Portal 2 on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Portal 2.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Portal 2 on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Portal 2.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal 2.
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 2.
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. Shares Adventure with Portal 2.
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 and Adventure with Portal 2.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Portal 2.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
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 challenging mood with Portal 2.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Portal 2. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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
Shares a funny mood with Portal 2.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Portal 2. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Portal 2. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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.
Portal
WHY THIS
Shares portal manipulation with Portal 2.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Portal 2. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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.
Counter-Strike
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Portal 2. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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 2. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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 2. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Portal 2. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal 2.
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.
Portal
WHY THIS
Shares portal manipulation with Portal 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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.
It Takes Two
WHY THIS
Shares co op puzzle solving and a funny mood with Portal 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal 2.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Suicide Guy
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Portal 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Portal 2.
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.
Frequently asked about Portal 2
- Is Portal 2 verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Portal 2 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 2 cost?
- Portal 2 is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Portal 2 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Portal 2 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Portal 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Portal 2 are Portal, It Takes Two, Cubin.
- Who developed Portal 2?
- Portal 2 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 2.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.