Fans of the Portal games will enjoy these games because they have similar themes, stories, and ways to play.
Portal and its sequel, Portal 2, are known as one of the most creative, funny, and charming first-person puzzle platformer series of all time. They follow test subjects at Aperture Science as they use a portal gun to solve physics-based riddles. With its sarcastic AI characters and interesting story twists. Portal’s simple but effective gameplay can leave players wanting more after they finish the series.
Even though not many games can match Portal’s success exactl. There are a few that capture the best parts of the series through their gameplay, themes, and looks. This makes them great for fans of Portal and Portal 2 in a lot of different and exciting ways.
Half-Life
Even though it is very different from Portal, fans of the Portal series may be interested in Half-Life, which was Valve’s first big series. In the Half-Life series, a theoretical scientist named Gordon Freeman tells the story of the breaking of the space-time continuum. The invasion of aliens that follows, and the fight for freedom on Earth.
It’s possible that Half-Life’s story is more complicated than Portal’s. But it can be interesting to see how both series affected each other, especially since they take place in the same world and use similar technological advances to give players some of the most unique weapons in first-person shooters.
Quantum Conundrum
Kim Swift, who was the lead creator for Portal, is in charge of Quantum Conundrum, a puzzle game that isn’t as well-known as it should be. In it, players can control four different dimensions as they try to fix their eccentric uncle’s house after a failed experiment turned off the lights.
Quantum Conundrum sounds more like a cartoon and is more fun than Portal.Still, the way you explore the fluffy, heavy, slow-motion, and reverse-gravity dimensions with a special glove makes it feel like the famous series while asking players to think about how its unique features make it stand out.
Antichamber
Antichamber is a first-person exploration game with no clear story that is led by quotes about how to solve puzzles and how important perspective is. After clearing a certain number of areas, players get a tool that looks like a portal gun and lets them use blocks to prop open doors or make platforms.
Even though it looks simple, using the tool to get past hurdles can be a disorienting experience that requires confidence and focus. This makes it perfect for Portal fans who like the thrill of solving especially hard tests at Aperture Science without much trouble.
The Witness
In The Witness, players solve line-based tasks as they explore an open world and learn new rules as they go. As the mazes get harder, each of the 18 areas adds its own twist. This lets the mazes use more environmental features as they get harder. Even though there isn’t much of a story in the open-world game. There are sometimes audio logs and movies about life that are hidden between puzzles.
The Witness doesn’t have a clear story or clear goals like the Portal series, but its creativity and environment give players a more self-paced experience that pushes them to find their own meaning in the rules and solutions.
The Turing Test
The Turing Test takes place in a study base on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. It’s about an engineer named Ava who goes on a journey to find her crewmates. Who have gone missing after finding a dangerous life form and barricading their ship. Ava, with the help of the mission’s AI companion, T.O.M., figures out how to solve the problems that the crew used to limit the machines’ power over the base and keep everyone safe.
The Turing Test feels like the Portal games because Ava uses her environment and laser gun to open doors. As she starts to doubt T.O.M.’s advice and her team’s complicated but human Turing tests. The game adds a sense of urgency that some players may have wanted from the Portal series at times.
Superliminal
In Superliminal, players are stuck in a failed experiment with dream treatment. They can change the world around them by making optical illusions. Each room and secret area in the dream requires logic to figure out. While also getting the player ready for the next strange dreamscape.
A lot of Superliminal is about how players can change their point of view to solve problems. Get out of the experiment, and go back to normal life with normal issues. Superliminal is a game you won’t want to mis. If you liked the scientific ideas and new ways to use the portal gun in Portal.
Q.U.B.E. 2
Archaeologist Amelia Cross wakes up in an old ruin after barely escaping a sandstorm on an alien planet. Cross is helped to escape by another survivor. Who shows her how to use a glove to move the bright cubes around her.
Even though Q.U.B.E. 2 is the second game in a series, and both games are fun to play, the features of the first game have been improved in the second game to make it more like Portal for fans of Snake Game. Figuring out how to use each block while moving through the ruins takes as much planning as it does trial and error. Just like figuring out where to put gates.
The Talos Principle
In The Talos Principle, a loud voice called Elohim gives the player control of a robot named Child. The voice tells the android to look for sigils in the grounds and enjoy Elohim’s temple. The android can choose to do what the voice says or explore the world on its own.
The Talos Principle looks at life and awareness in a more serious way than Portal does. But the use of jammers to open doors and stop enemies from attacking makes it feel like the tests at Aperture Science before things go wrong.
The Stanley Parable
The Stanley Parable is often thought of as one of the most influential independent games in the world because it tells the story of an office worker named Stanley and whether or not he chooses to follow the road set out for him by a narrator after his coworkers disappear.
Fans of Portal who like GLaDOS’ sarcasm, narration. And energy will enjoy the narrator’s part in The Stanley Parable, especially in some of the game’s endings that require Stanley to disobey, question, or otherwise ignore orders to learn about his personality and methods.
Outer Wilds
Outer Wilds starts on a planet called Timber Hearth and takes place in a solar system. That is one of the most complicated, immersive, and interesting in gaming. The story is about an astronaut who doesn’t have a name. They try to figure out the secrets of the world around them while going through time loops, dangerous planets, and a lot of time alone.
Even though they are different, Outer Wilds and the Portal games are two of the most well-known science fiction games. It is hard to imagine that fans of the Portal games would not enjoy discovering the secrets of the world in Outer Wilds.
