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Portal cover art

Portal

Valve · 2007-10-10

Steam

Action

Franchise: Portal · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jun 28, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 25, 2007 (Xbox 360), May 12, 2014 (Android), May 02, 2013 (Linux), May 12, 2010 (Mac), Oct 25, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

Portal is an Action game released in 2007, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 10,000,000 .. 20,000,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (99% of 199117 reviews).

432
playing now
99%
positive of 201k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
10,000,000–20,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1
twitch viewers (latest)
1.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
86/100
IGDB user rating (4005 ratings)
25
Nexus mods (7.8k downloads)
4.1h
to beat · rushed 1.9h · completionist 7.5h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

432 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 02:00 UTC (census sample)

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, and Nintendo Switch.

Trailer

Portal trailer thumbnail

Official Portal Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 432 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11,346 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1,418/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 8.0M–16M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 200,524 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$1.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2017-06-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 10 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4.1k4.1k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 543 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 344 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 426 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 762 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 888 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 379 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 279 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 237 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1,096 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 578 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 547 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 498 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 307 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 258 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 306 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1,632 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1,994 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 320 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 267 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 296 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1,287 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2,302 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1,658 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 974 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1,338 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1,634 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1,370 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1,565 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2,604 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1,291 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1,049 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1,010 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1,818 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2,377 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2,354 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1,308 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1,186 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1,254 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1,276 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1,593 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2,442 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1,386 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 914 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 790 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1,556 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2,186 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2,379 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1,685 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1,362 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1,116 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1,066 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1,406 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1,982 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1,170 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 989 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1,011 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2,379 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 4,091 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3,045 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1,364 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3,601 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1,887 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1,776 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1,443 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3,342 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2,210 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2,315 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1,403 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2,177 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2,467 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3,387 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2,132 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2,383 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1,399 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1,637 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1,848 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3,157 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1,669 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1,079 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2,071 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1,805 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2,595 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2,019 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1,296 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1,816 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1,106 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1,159 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1,887 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2,018 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1,428 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 965 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1,504 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2,168 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2,083 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2,265 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1,204 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1,625 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1,296 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1,166 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1,360 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2,199 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1,264 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1,032 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 674 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 9 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1.2k2412026-09-15 11:00 — 341 players2026-09-16 19:00 — 530 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 368 players2026-09-19 10:00 — 488 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 748 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 363 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 243 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 443 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 408 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 404 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 408 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 375 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 245 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 865 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 1,054 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 541 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 820 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 844 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 480 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 851 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 876 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 417 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 339 players2026-10-15 02:00 — 432 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.1k226Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 710 · peak 1,367Dec 2012 — avg 528 · peak 2,223May 2013 — avg 299 · peak 625Oct 2013 — avg 226 · peak 459Mar 2014 — avg 262 · peak 523Aug 2014 — avg 442 · peak 1,498Jan 2015 — avg 539 · peak 1,542Jun 2015 — avg 634 · peak 1,952Nov 2015 — avg 547 · peak 2,005Apr 2016 — avg 304 · peak 579Sep 2016 — avg 276 · peak 544Feb 2017 — avg 371 · peak 705Jul 2017 — avg 894 · peak 2,882Dec 2017 — avg 832 · peak 2,222May 2018 — avg 290 · peak 635Oct 2018 — avg 257 · peak 496Mar 2019 — avg 305 · peak 559Aug 2019 — avg 340 · peak 557Jan 2020 — avg 538 · peak 1,359Jun 2020 — avg 534 · peak 1,438Nov 2020 — avg 527 · peak 1,295Apr 2021 — avg 421 · peak 756Sep 2021 — avg 341 · peak 593Feb 2022 — avg 517 · peak 952Jul 2022 — avg 564 · peak 1,096Dec 2022 — avg 1,119 · peak 2,105May 2023 — avg 509 · peak 1,733Oct 2023 — avg 433 · peak 821Mar 2024 — avg 670 · peak 1,587Aug 2024 — avg 481 · peak 746Jan 2025 — avg 600 · peak 1,438Jun 2025 — avg 568 · peak 1,252Nov 2025 — avg 429 · peak 802Apr 2026 — avg 461 · peak 860Aug 2026 — avg 455 · peak 776
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
1131132026-09-232026-10-142026-09-23: 24 new positive2026-09-23: 1 new negative2026-09-24: 20 new positive2026-09-24: 3 new negative2026-09-26: 12 new positive2026-09-27: 32 new positive2026-09-27: 4 new negative2026-09-28: 58 new positive2026-09-29: 24 new positive2026-09-30: 19 new positive2026-09-30: 1 new negative2026-10-03: 52 new positive2026-10-03: 1 new negative2026-10-04: 85 new positive2026-10-04: 3 new negative2026-10-06: 55 new positive2026-10-06: 1 new negative2026-10-07: 82 new positive2026-10-08: 87 new positive2026-10-08: 2 new negative2026-10-09: 87 new positive2026-10-09: 1 new negative2026-10-11: 78 new positive2026-10-11: 1 new negative2026-10-13: 113 new positive2026-10-14: 29 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-01-012026-10-082015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-01-30 — best price $9.992015-06-11 — best price $2.492015-07-21 — best price $2.492015-11-10 — best price $2.492015-12-22 — best price $1.992016-03-22 — best price $3.392016-06-23 — best price $1.992016-07-30 — best price $2.292016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992019-01-04 — best price $9.992019-07-09 — best price $9.992020-01-02 — best price $9.992020-11-02 — best price $9.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-12-01 — best price $9.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-11-29 — best price $9.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-09-19 — best price $9.992024-01-11 — best price $9.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-10-05 — best price $1.992026-10-08 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.7k5962026-06-01 — 868 pageviews2026-06-05 — 1,578 pageviews2026-06-09 — 722 pageviews2026-06-13 — 638 pageviews2026-06-17 — 724 pageviews2026-06-21 — 725 pageviews2026-06-25 — 729 pageviews2026-06-29 — 936 pageviews2026-07-03 — 837 pageviews2026-07-07 — 954 pageviews2026-07-11 — 847 pageviews2026-07-15 — 775 pageviews2026-07-19 — 734 pageviews2026-07-23 — 802 pageviews2026-07-27 — 713 pageviews2026-07-31 — 684 pageviews2026-08-04 — 624 pageviews2026-08-08 — 601 pageviews2026-08-12 — 632 pageviews2026-08-16 — 750 pageviews2026-08-20 — 716 pageviews2026-08-24 — 700 pageviews2026-08-28 — 660 pageviews2026-09-01 — 844 pageviews2026-09-05 — 1,728 pageviews2026-09-09 — 916 pageviews2026-09-13 — 749 pageviews2026-09-17 — 927 pageviews2026-09-21 — 753 pageviews2026-09-25 — 791 pageviews2026-09-29 — 773 pageviews2026-10-03 — 714 pageviews2026-10-07 — 685 pageviews2026-10-11 — 797 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

27002026-10-01 10:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-01 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 04:34 — 270 viewers2026-10-02 13:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-02 22:34 — 53 viewers2026-10-03 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 16:34 — 17 viewers2026-10-04 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 10:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-04 19:34 — 127 viewers2026-10-05 04:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-05 13:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-05 22:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-06 07:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-06 16:34 — 12 viewers2026-10-07 01:34 — 22 viewers2026-10-07 10:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-07 19:34 — 57 viewers2026-10-08 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 22:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-09 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 16:34 — 28 viewers2026-10-10 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 10:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-10 19:35 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 04:34 — 157 viewers2026-10-11 13:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-11 22:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-12 07:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-12 16:34 — 39 viewers2026-10-13 01:34 — 52 viewers2026-10-13 10:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-13 19:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-14 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 22:34 — 20 viewers2026-10-15 07:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-15 09:34 — 1 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
80.9%
earned "Lab Rat"
12%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCaptions availableCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller Support2 DLC

26 supported languages: English, French, German, Russian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal…

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2014-09-24, latest 2022-12-08 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)223,9928%15
Switch (Nintendo)2,3750%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FunnyActionComedyPuzzleSci-fiClassicPhysicsSciencePlatformerStory Rich

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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