Games Like 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.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18.7%, 3D Platformer 12.9%, Puzzle 11.4%, First-Person 7%, Science 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: The original establishes the same portal-based momentum puzzles, sterile Aperture Laboratories atmosphere, and dryly funny storytelling in a more compact campaign.

Experience the critically acclaimed and award-winning Portal™ reimagined with full ray tracing and DLSS 4 in this free DLC for Portal owners. Start thinking with portals, with RTX on.

Why similar: Puzzle 16.5%, First-Person 13.3%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Puzzle Platformer 11.4%, Female Protagonist 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is Portal's classic test-chamber puzzle design with a dramatic ray-traced visual overhaul, making it the closest possible return to the Aperture experience.

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!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.6%, 3D Platformer 16.9%, Puzzle 12.6%, First-Person 8.4%, Science 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle adventure built around swapping dimensions to alter physics, with a playful scientific-laboratory setting and escalating room challenges.

Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 12.9%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Funny 9.8%, Puzzle 9.8%, FPS 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its time-rewinding object mechanic creates Portal-like first-person test chambers, backed by a witty AI companion and a polished sci-fi narrative.

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!

Why similar: Science 14.5%, Dark Humor 13.6%, Puzzle Platformer 12.7%, 3D Platformer 11.1%, Level Editor 11%

Why You'll Like It: The color-mixing gun and paint-reactive droids make this a clear Portal-style puzzle game with a comic testing-facility premise.

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.

Why similar: Puzzle 24.5%, Female Protagonist 23.6%, First-Person 17.9%, Sci-fi 17.2%, Story Rich 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative-driven first-person puzzler uses energy routing, movable objects, and increasingly complex sci-fi chambers in a manner strongly reminiscent of Portal.

Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.

Why similar: Puzzle 26.1%, Female Protagonist 17.8%, Action 16.3%, First-Person 14.9%, Sci-fi 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers sleek first-person rooms full of colored blocks and switches that can be reconfigured to solve spatial and physics-based puzzles.

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.

Why similar: Dark Humor 19%, Puzzle Platformer 16.9%, Puzzle 15.9%, Physics 13.4%, First-Person 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its perspective-based object scaling turns ordinary rooms into mind-bending first-person spatial puzzles with a similarly controlled experimental feel.

Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut is the definitive version of the brain-twisting first-person puzzler. Using special high-tech gloves to manipulate cubes in the environment, the player solves an array of conundrums - from physics-based challenges; to 3D jigsaws; to platform-based trials.

Why similar: Puzzle 26.4%, First-Person 17.5%, Science 13.9%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Physics 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its modular-cube manipulation puzzles provide a focused, atmospheric first-person chamber-puzzle experience.

Try the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places. Playtime 12-25h.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.8%, FPS 14.7%, 3D Platformer 10.9%, Physics 10.5%, First-Person 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This humorous first-person adventure combines physics gadgets, environmental puzzles, secret-hunting, and a playful sense of discovery.

The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20%, 3D Platformer 15.1%, Science 15%, Puzzle 11.9%, First-Person 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the original's sophisticated environmental puzzles into larger, beautiful sci-fi spaces while retaining its thoughtful AI-driven story.

Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.

Why similar: Puzzle 24.6%, Physics 22.1%, Level Editor 20.9%, Comedy 9.2%, Sci-fi 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It smartly combines Portal's iconic tools, hazards, and GLaDOS humor with structural-engineering puzzles.

Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.

Why similar: Dark Humor 18.7%, Puzzle Platformer 18.3%, 3D Platformer 12.7%, Physics 8.3%, First-Person 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Photographs become pieces of the world itself, creating exceptionally inventive perspective puzzles in a bright first-person format.

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).

Why similar: Puzzle 33.2%, First-Person 17.4%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Story Rich 14.7%, Atmospheric 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A rich first-person puzzle adventure of lasers, jammers, drones, and philosophical AI storytelling that rewards careful experimentation.

Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.

Why similar: Puzzle 53.2%, First-Person 33.2%, Singleplayer 6.1%, Atmospheric 4%, Sci-fi 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its impossible architecture and rule-breaking first-person puzzles capture the satisfaction of continually learning a strange new spatial logic.

Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.

Why similar: Level Editor 23.9%, Co-op 16.9%, Platformer 15.6%, Funny 12%, Puzzle Platformer 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its absurd humor, co-op platforming stages, and puzzle-heavy level design offer a comedic cooperative challenge with a very different perspective.

Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.1%, Co-op 21.7%, Funny 14.7%, Physics 13.7%, Puzzle 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Loose physics, environmental contraptions, and cooperative experimentation create a more slapstick but similarly playful puzzle-platforming experience.

Gravitas is a short first-person puzzle platforming game that transports you to the Gallery of Refined Gravity. Manipulate gravity and the gallery itself to prove yourself a pupil worthy of the Curator’s masterwork.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.9%, Puzzle 16.5%, 3D Platformer 12%, First-Person 11.4%, Funny 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A compact first-person gravity-puzzle game set in a whimsical testing complex, complete with an entertaining artificial-intelligence host.

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.

Why similar: Co-op 41.5%, Puzzle 11.5%, Puzzle Platformer 11.4%, 3D Platformer 8.8%, Story Rich 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its excellent co-op campaign continually introduces inventive puzzle mechanics and requires genuine coordination, much like Portal 2's cooperative chambers.

Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 39.8%, Puzzle 25%, First-Person 21.2%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Gravity-shifting exploration and impossible Escher-like structures offer cerebral spatial puzzles for players who enjoy Portal's changing sense of scale and orientation.

Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 19.5%, Science 15.3%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Physics 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person sci-fi puzzler centers on magnetism, gravity, and energy manipulation across carefully designed alien facilities.

A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.

Why similar: Science 27.1%, Puzzle 17.9%, First-Person 15%, Puzzle Platformer 14.4%, Sci-fi 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It builds puzzle rooms around light, shadows, mirrors, and lasers, with an amusing corporate-presenter tone that echoes Aperture's satire.

First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.

Why similar: Co-op 39.3%, Puzzle 25.9%, Level Editor 13.9%, First-Person 13.2%, Story Rich 5%

Why You'll Like It: Detailed first-person escape rooms, object interaction, and online co-op make it a strong choice for players seeking more collaborative puzzle solving.

Biped is a coop action adventure game with a strong focus on moment-to-moment collaboration between 2 players.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, 3D Platformer 16.9%, Co-op 15.6%, Platformer 13.6%, Funny 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Two-player coordination and charming physics-based obstacle puzzles make it a focused co-op alternative for Portal 2 partners.

Magnetic: Cage Closed is a first person puzzle game where the player manipulates magnetic forces to accomplish their goals. The mechanics are focused around a single tool: The Magnet Gun which allows you to create electromagnetic fields with either positive or negative charges.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43.4%, Puzzle 21.1%, First-Person 11.8%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Action 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Magnetic polarity mechanics, enclosed sci-fi chambers, and a sardonic AI overseer make it a particularly Portal-adjacent puzzle experience.

It takes two to save the world in this cooperative spy adventure. Pair up with a friend as Agent or Hacker—with only your voices to connect you—and work together to bring a hi-tech global menace to its knees. Now with a FREE CONTENT UPDATE!

Why similar: Co-op 35.9%, Puzzle 29.4%, Female Protagonist 24%, First-Person 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This asymmetrical co-op spy puzzler requires two players to communicate constantly while each sees different information and tools.

Check-in to The Spectrum Retreat for a stay you won’t forget. Manipulate your way to the truth in this captivating narrative-driven puzzler.

Why similar: Puzzle 52.7%, First-Person 47.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its color-swapping first-person puzzles and mysterious hotel setting pair logical room-solving with an unfolding sci-fi story.

What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Why similar: Puzzle 25.5%, Puzzle Platformer 21.8%, Sci-fi 18.3%, Platformer 18.3%, Atmospheric 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Though presented in 2D, its cloning and light-based body-swapping puzzles deliver similarly meticulous sci-fi problem-solving and isolation.

Maquette is a first-person recursive puzzle game that takes you into a world where every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.4%, Puzzle 24.3%, First-Person 21.7%, Story Rich 7.4%, Atmospheric 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Recursive worlds within worlds create clever first-person scale puzzles that reward the same kind of spatial thinking as Portal.

Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

Why similar: FPS 19.8%, Co-op 18.7%, Physics 15.3%, Funny 14%, Comedy 12.6%

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Why similar: Puzzle 52.6%, First-Person 27.6%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Singleplayer 6.9%, Story Rich 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its open island is filled with carefully layered environmental puzzles that cultivate Portal's satisfying moments of realizing a new rule.

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.

Why similar: FPS 39.1%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Story Rich 10.7%, First-Person 9.7%, Physics 7.6%

Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!

Why similar: FPS 40.2%, Funny 17%, Co-op 14.3%, First-Person 11.9%, Comedy 9.1%

Shoot paint, mix colors, and solve puzzles in this adventure about friendship and redemption. Just don't enter that portal to another universe, and ᴇᴠᴇʀʏTʜɪɴɢ will 𝐛𝐞 ᴘEʀ𝐅𝓔ᴄᴛʟʏ 𝒇 𝔦 𝓃 ҽ . • °

Why similar: Dark Humor 17.4%, FPS 12.9%, Platformer 11.1%, Puzzle 10.1%, First-Person 9.3%

Fast multiplayer action set in the Half-Life 2 universe! HL2's physics adds a new dimension to deathmatch play. Play straight deathmatch or try Combine vs. Resistance teamplay. Toss a toilet at your friend today!

Why similar: FPS 38.4%, Action 16.6%, First-Person 11.5%, Physics 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.2%

The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.

Why similar: Co-op 23.9%, FPS 23.2%, Funny 11.9%, First-Person 10.5%, Comedy 10.5%

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.

Why similar: Co-op 42.4%, FPS 39.2%, First-Person 10.4%, Action 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.6%

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.

Why similar: Funny 11.8%, Dark Humor 9.7%, Comedy 9%, Science 8.3%, Puzzle 8%

Three heroes make their way through a fairytale world of forgotten ruins, scheming goblins and impossible contraptions. Play alone and switch between wizard, knight and thief at will, or bring up to two friends, in online or local co-op.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.5%, Platformer 16.9%, Co-op 15.4%, Action-Adventure 11.7%, Physics 10.8%

KILL IT WITH FIRE! 2 is the ultimate co-op spider-hunting experience! Either solo or as a team of Exterminators, unleash an arsenal of crazy weapons, wreak havoc, and complete dozens of challenges across seven dimensions under spider siege.

Why similar: Dark Humor 22.8%, Co-op 14.6%, Funny 10.4%, Physics 10.4%, Comedy 9.8%

Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.

Why similar: Co-op 26.9%, 3D Platformer 17.4%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Action-Adventure 10.1%, Sci-fi 8%

From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.

Why similar: Co-op 38.1%, FPS 33.9%, First-Person 10.2%, Action 7.1%, Female Protagonist 5.5%

Climb up from the depths of Hell. Scale various worlds solo or chained together with your friends in the 1-4 player platforming sensation.

Why similar: Co-op 27%, Puzzle Platformer 19.1%, 3D Platformer 15.1%, Platformer 14.9%, Funny 9.4%

Introducing Aperture Desk Job — a free playable short made for the Steam Deck, set in the universe of the modestly popular Portal games.

Why similar: Funny 33.3%, Comedy 23.2%, Story Rich 14.2%, First-Person 10.4%, Action 9.9%

Launch into the Borderlands universe and shoot ‘n’ loot your way through a brand new adventure that rockets you onto Pandora’s moon in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!

Why similar: FPS 20.5%, Co-op 19.6%, Funny 14%, Comedy 13.1%, First-Person 11.7%

"Parking Together!" is a chaotic co-op "parking" game! Navigate non-stop hazards to deliver a car to the goal that explodes instantly on impact... Work with your partner to overcome obstacles, clear stages, and conquer the Time Attack!

Why similar: Dark Humor 18.3%, Puzzle Platformer 15.7%, 3D Platformer 15.5%, Co-op 12.9%, Platformer 10.9%

Assemble your team of three from seven unlikely adventurers, then descend into the mysterious depths to explore The Cave!

Why similar: Platformer 26.3%, Puzzle 15.9%, Co-op 12.9%, Dark Humor 12.6%, Comedy 11.1%

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.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, Comedy 7.8%, Science 7.3%, Dark Humor 7.3%, Physics 7.2%

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!

Why similar: Level Editor 19.8%, Puzzle Platformer 16.3%, Co-op 14.7%, 3D Platformer 13.7%, Platformer 10.9%

Bound together by the magical artifact Trine, a wizard, a knight and a thief journey through a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery. Solve puzzles, overcome obstacles and battle the undead! Play solo or in 1–3 player online or local co-op.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.2%, Co-op 16.2%, Platformer 14.8%, Physics 11.9%, Action-Adventure 11%

A puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian world where the invention of a cloning device has messed things up, big time. Armed with a clone gun and a mighty fine mustache, the chore of saving THE WHOLE OF CIVILIZATION rests on your shoulders. Don’t blow it.

Why similar: Dark Humor 23.5%, Puzzle Platformer 21.9%, Platformer 14.8%, Puzzle 11.5%, Sci-fi 9.4%

Portal 2 draws from the award-winning formula of innovative gameplay, story, and music that earned the original Portal over 70 industry accolades and created a cult following. For more information on Portal 2 click here.

Why similar: Puzzle 38.5%, Story Rich 38.4%, Action 16.4%, Singleplayer 6.7%

Shift Happens is a cooperative platformer for two. You and a friend shift your mass, throw each other and puzzle your way through four stages of stylized imaginary worlds. Including the occasional backstabbing and taunting. Play with a friend on a couch, online or even special singleplayer levels.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.2%, Co-op 28.1%, Platformer 13.4%, Puzzle 11.9%, Funny 9.1%

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.

Why similar: FPS 30.6%, Action-Adventure 13.7%, First-Person 13.5%, Sci-fi 13%, Story Rich 12.3%

Deliver those goods, real good - or get turned into scrap trying! Chaotic co-op platforming, genre-bending power-ups, a challenging campaign, and endless community-built levels await, so grab a friend and GO!

Why similar: Level Editor 32.9%, Co-op 22.2%, Platformer 21.6%, Funny 15.1%, Action 5.2%

Welcome to Gravulse, an innovative space curvature laboratory that is trying to "flip" the laws of physics, literally. Here you have to go through many test levels using various new technologies!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20%, 3D Platformer 17.3%, Platformer 13.3%, Science 11.2%, First-Person 9.9%

The Trine heroes in full 3D. Explore a fairytale world of breathtaking sceneries and enchanting creatures, solving puzzles as wizard, knight and thief, alone or together in online or local co-op.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.3%, 3D Platformer 18.1%, Co-op 15.4%, Platformer 12.3%, Action-Adventure 10.4%

Relive Half-Life.

Why similar: FPS 36.5%, Sci-fi 16.2%, First-Person 15.6%, Story Rich 12.2%, Action 7.6%

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.

Why similar: Level Editor 36.9%, Platformer 32.8%, Funny 25.7%, Action 4.6%