Games Like Portal

The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

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

Why You'll Like It: It expands Portal’s momentum-based traversal, test-chamber puzzles, Aperture setting, and deadpan comedy into a longer, more elaborate adventure.

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 28.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Sci-fi 14.6%, First-Person 14.5%, Female Protagonist 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is the original Portal’s exact puzzle campaign enhanced with full ray-traced lighting and modernized visuals.

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 20.4%, Puzzle 19.2%, Sci-fi 12.3%, First-Person 11.6%, Female Protagonist 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person sci-fi puzzles use a device that rewinds objects through time, paired with a lonely facility and an AI companion reminiscent of Portal.

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: Puzzle Platformer 30.2%, 3D Platformer 16.9%, Puzzle 16.8%, First-Person 10.7%, Dark Humor 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its extraordinary camera mechanic lets you turn photographs into physical level geometry, rewarding the same kind of spatial experimentation as Portal.

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 35.3%, Puzzle 19.4%, 3D Platformer 16.8%, First-Person 8.3%, Comedy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle-platformer from Portal’s co-creator, it uses dimension-switching physics to manipulate weight, gravity, and momentum.

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: Puzzle 29.5%, Puzzle Platformer 25.1%, First-Person 14.8%, Physics 10.2%, Dark Humor 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person puzzle game transforms perspective into a tool, making object size and placement depend on how you look at them.

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 38.5%, First-Person 14%, Female Protagonist 11%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Puzzle Platformer 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers first-person puzzle chambers where colored blocks can be reshaped into platforms, stairs, and other solutions inside a mysterious sci-fi complex.

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 37.9%, Sci-fi 19.4%, First-Person 17.7%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Story Rich 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its clean first-person test chambers, energy-routing puzzles, and AI-focused space-station story make it a particularly direct Portal-like experience.

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: Puzzle Platformer 22.2%, 3D Platformer 15.7%, Puzzle 13.1%, Science 10%, Sci-fi 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This humorous first-person puzzler has players shoot colored paint to attract droids and manipulate the environment through color mixing.

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 49.9%, Sci-fi 17.3%, First-Person 16.7%, Story Rich 5.2%, Atmospheric 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines thoughtful first-person environmental puzzles involving lasers, connectors, and blockers with an enigmatic AI-driven sci-fi mystery.

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 43%, First-Person 18.1%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Science 7.2%, Physics 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its cube-manipulation mechanics and mysterious first-person sci-fi setting provide a compact, chamber-based Portal alternative.

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 50.2%, Physics 18.5%, Comedy 11.4%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Singleplayer 5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines Portal’s Aperture humor, portals, and testing aesthetic with engineering puzzles focused on constructing safe vehicle routes.

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 30.8%, Puzzle 15.2%, Sci-fi 10.6%, First-Person 9.9%, Science 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It builds puzzles around manipulating gravity and magnetism in a remote lunar research base, with a similarly clinical science-fiction atmosphere.

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: Comedy 33.3%, Funny 23.1%, First-Person 15.8%, Singleplayer 11%, Story Rich 8%

Why You'll Like It: This short free Aperture Science comedy is a charming Valve-made companion piece packed with the setting’s familiar absurdist tone.

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 65.4%, First-Person 26%, Singleplayer 3.8%, Sci-fi 1.7%, Atmospheric 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces conventional level logic with surreal, non-Euclidean spaces that demand experimentation and a willingness to question visual assumptions.

The world is your canvas in this innovative first-person puzzle platformer. Tag walls and other surfaces with different colors of spray paint to reveal new ways to navigate each level, including bouncing off, sliding across, and sticking to the surfaces you paint.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.5%, 3D Platformer 27.6%, Puzzle 17.1%, First-Person 8.3%, FPS 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its spray-paint traversal mechanics directly inspired Portal 2’s gels, making it an excellent choice for momentum and surface-manipulation puzzle fans.

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: Classic 26.6% ★, Sci-fi 18.3%, FPS 13.6%, First-Person 11.4%, Puzzle 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its physics-driven first-person world, environmental storytelling, and foundational Valve atmosphere make it a natural next stop beyond Portal’s test chambers.

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 32.7%, Puzzle 24.2%, 3D Platformer 11.3%, First-Person 10.6%, Sci-fi 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This free first-person puzzle-platformer uses a gravity gun and a comically dysfunctional test facility in a clear affectionate nod to Portal.

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

Why similar: Puzzle 29.2%, Puzzle Platformer 18.9%, First-Person 15.6%, Science 14%, Sci-fi 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: It turns light and shadows into lethal, carefully controlled puzzle elements in a sterile first-person scientific facility.

Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, penned by H.P. Lovecraft. Equipped with your Magtech glove, you must harness the ability to magnetically polarize and manipulate objects in the environment to survive and surpass challenging puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle 53%, First-Person 16.5%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Action 5.1%, FPS 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric first-person puzzle game uses magnetic polarity to move objects and navigate a dangerous futuristic training facility.

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 41.8%, Puzzle 32.7%, First-Person 17.6%, Atmospheric 3.6%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its impossible architecture and gravity-shifting exploration offer a similarly mind-bending sense of spatial discovery, though in a more abstract world.

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

Why similar: Puzzle 67.1%, First-Person 22.4%, Singleplayer 4.5%, Atmospheric 3.7%, Adventure 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A solitary first-person island full of interconnected environmental puzzles captures Portal’s pleasure of steadily learning a visual puzzle language.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.

Why similar: Comedy 34.2%, First-Person 27.2%, Funny 12.6%, Dark Humor 9%, Story Rich 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: While less mechanics-focused, its first-person office exploration and brilliantly dry narrator-driven humor appeal to Portal fans who love Valve-style comedy.

In a city where information is heavily monitored, couriers called Runners transport sensitive data. In this seemingly utopian paradise, a crime has been committed, & you are being hunted. You are a Runner called Faith and this innovative first-person action-adventure is your story.

Why similar: 3D Platformer 26.9%, Puzzle 20%, First-Person 15.6%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Sci-fi 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person movement and precision platforming deliver the same satisfying sense of learning a space and executing a clean traversal solution.

As a swashbuckling archaeologist, unlock the mystery of the ancient ruins that have been hidden for centuries and discover a mysterious artifact, a gold and metal shelled Ball.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.7%, 3D Platformer 22.6%, Puzzle 16.6%, First-Person 11.1%, Sci-fi 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes first-person exploration and puzzle-platforming around pushing, launching, and protecting a massive physics object.

Play as Sally, the granddaughter of a brilliant and eccentric inventor, who invited you to explore her 70s lab, filled with unique inventions. Solve puzzles by crossing TV screens that alter your gravity, size, or both. Observation, manipulation, and thinking are key to progressing!

Why similar: Puzzle 23.2%, First-Person 13.7%, Puzzle Platformer 12.2%, Science 12.1%, 3D Platformer 10.3%

Relive Half-Life.

Why similar: Classic 26.9% ★, Sci-fi 22.1%, First-Person 18.7%, FPS 12.9%, Story Rich 5.4%

A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...

Why similar: Adventure 35.9%, First-Person 18.2%, 3D Platformer 14%, Puzzle 11.1%, Platformer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person grappling traversal centers on momentum, aerial control, and navigating imaginative spaces through a single versatile movement tool.

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 61%, First-Person 34.8%, Adventure 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its hotel-set first-person puzzles revolve around absorbing and swapping colors to traverse spaces, supported by an unfolding sci-fi mystery.

Pneuma: Breath of Life forces you to think outside the box through a narrated story of self-discovery, whilst exploring the ontological mystery of the breath of life. Features award winning voice actor 'Jay Britton' as Pneuma.

Why similar: Puzzle 61.9%, First-Person 32.1%, Adventure 6%

Why You'll Like It: This philosophical first-person puzzler uses perspective, moving architecture, and narration to create a Portal-like sequence of cerebral trials.

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: Classic 31.5% ★, Sci-fi 19.4%, First-Person 17.6%, FPS 11.8%, Story Rich 5.9%

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: First-Person 33.1%, FPS 32.4%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Action 10.6%, Singleplayer 5.6%

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: First-Person 22.8%, FPS 22.6%, Sci-fi 18.7%, Action 15.2%, Physics 13.1%

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.

Why similar: Sci-fi 22.4%, First-Person 21.2%, Female Protagonist 20.6%, FPS 11.6%, Story Rich 7.7%

Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 61.5%, Puzzle 22.3%, Platformer 7.1%, Atmospheric 3%, Physics 2.2%

Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

Why similar: First-Person 32.2%, Sci-fi 15.9%, Puzzle 15.3%, Funny 12.5%, Singleplayer 8.3%

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: Comedy 23.7%, First-Person 22.9%, Physics 19.6%, Funny 12.7%, FPS 11.6%

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: Puzzle 15.9%, Puzzle Platformer 11.8%, Comedy 10.9%, 3D Platformer 9.4%, Funny 6.8%

Blast Course is a first-person puzzle-platformer centered around the classic game mechanic of Rocket Jumping. Control Kit in a day at work testing "Hyperboom", a revolutionary transport technology based on explosives.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29%, 3D Platformer 17.8%, Puzzle 17.7%, First-Person 9.9%, Platformer 6.6%

Experience the high fidelity virtual reality of your own hands like never before.

Why similar: First-Person 38.3%, Funny 22.7%, Sci-fi 18.9%, Adventure 13.1%, Singleplayer 6.9%

Dive into a surreal 1970s gameworld and save San Francisco from a sinister threat. Play as Barb, and use the Oscillator to capture and reapply the physical traits of objects to solve mind-bending environmental platforming puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.3%, 3D Platformer 17.8%, Puzzle 15.4%, First-Person 10.2%, Female Protagonist 8.9%

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 32.1%, 3D Platformer 22.3%, First-Person 12.5%, Science 7.1%, Physics 6%

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.

Why similar: Comedy 39.8%, First-Person 26.5%, Funny 11.8%, Puzzle 10.5%, Story Rich 3.6%

In Tobla - Divine Path, creative puzzle gameplay, a story inspired by classics like Portal™, and impressive 3D graphics come together. Step into the role of Mort and tackle the challenging puzzles and cynical comments of the cunning goddess Tobla to find your way home.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.9%, Puzzle 23.7%, First-Person 13.6%, Comedy 7.8%, Physics 5.2%

Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.2%, Puzzle 18.7%, 3D Platformer 17.3%, First-Person 10.7%, Sci-fi 10.5%

Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 62.7%, Puzzle 12.8%, Platformer 11%, Sci-fi 4.8%, Female Protagonist 3.5%

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 65.4%, Story Rich 15.4%, Action 8.2%, Singleplayer 5.9%, Adventure 5.1%

Half-Life Deathmatch: Source is a recreation of the first multiplayer game set in the Half-Life universe. Features all the classic weapons and most-played maps, now running on the Source engine.

Why similar: Classic 28.5% ★, Sci-fi 22%, FPS 19.1%, First-Person 17.9%, Action 10.8%

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.

Why similar: Classic 27.4% ★, FPS 25.7%, Sci-fi 16.9%, First-Person 12.4%, Puzzle 5.5%

Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.

Why similar: FPS 41.6%, First-Person 38.4%, Action 15.6%, Singleplayer 2.5%, Atmospheric 1.9%

A metrics-obsessed AI will monitor, profile, and entertain you as you progress through over a hundred genre-bending puzzles in this delightfully satirical adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle 26.4%, Science 14.6%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Dark Humor 14%, Comedy 13.2%

Revisitor is a first person puzzle-platformer game set in a futuristic virtual space. Use two different types of teleportation to both navigate and solve a series of increasingly challenging missions.

Why similar: Puzzle 25%, Puzzle Platformer 22.7%, 3D Platformer 17.5%, First-Person 13.4%, Sci-fi 11.5%

Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.

Why similar: Comedy 39.1%, Funny 24.5%, Physics 22.6%, Dark Humor 6.3%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Red Trigger is an FPS Puzzle game inspired by Portal, Antichamber and more. Use a gun that can expand or retract red blocks. The catch? You can only expand three blocks at a time - so you need to manage your energy wisely.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.9%, 3D Platformer 19.7%, Puzzle 15%, First-Person 9%, Female Protagonist 8.6%

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 47.8%, Puzzle 28.9%, First-Person 10.3%, Female Protagonist 5.9%, Action 2.6%

VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

Why similar: Platformer 44.4%, Sci-fi 21.1%, Puzzle 17.5%, Singleplayer 9.3%, Action 5.5%

Portal with cats - Become entangled in a quantum puzzle adventure! Mittens gains the incredible power to be in two places at once. Explore twisted test chambers, make mischief and evade capture by a whisker! 🐈🐈‍⬛

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.8%, Puzzle 19%, Science 15%, 3D Platformer 11.6%, Sci-fi 10.8%

A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.

Why similar: Comedy 24.2%, 3D Platformer 24%, Classic 18.3% ★, Platformer 13.4%, Funny 7.6%

Gorge is a first-person puzzle-platformer, where you use telekinesis and wall-running to solve challenging interconnected obstacle courses.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.3%, 3D Platformer 23.5%, Puzzle 17.4%, First-Person 11.7%, Platformer 5.1%