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 18.6%, 3D Platformer 12.8%, Puzzle 11.4%, First-Person 7.1%, Science 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It expands Portal’s first-person physics puzzles, test-chamber structure, and deadpan humor into a larger, even more inventive adventure.

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 20.3%, Puzzle 19.2%, Sci-fi 12.3%, First-Person 11.7%, Female Protagonist 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its time-rewinding puzzle gun, clean sci-fi facility, and sarcastic AI companion make it one of the closest modern descendants of 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 35.2%, Puzzle 19.3%, 3D Platformer 16.8%, First-Person 8.3%, Comedy 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Designed by Portal co-creator Kim Swift, it delivers first-person puzzle-platforming built around playful physics manipulation and mad-science flavor.

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%, 3D Platformer 16.9%, Puzzle 16.7%, First-Person 10.8%, Dark Humor 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Like Portal, it revolves around a single reality-bending idea used in increasingly clever first-person spatial puzzles.

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 42.9%, First-Person 18.2%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Science 7.2%, Physics 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its minimalist test-room puzzles and satisfying rule-based progression make it a natural match for Portal fans.

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 29.4%, Puzzle Platformer 24.9%, First-Person 14.9%, Physics 10.4%, Dark Humor 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its perspective-based physics tricks and surreal first-person puzzle design capture the same delight of learning a strange new rule set.

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 38.6%, First-Person 14.1%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Puzzle Platformer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a focused first-person puzzle game full of chamber-based spatial challenges and environmental mechanics that strongly echo Portal’s structure.

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 49.8%, Sci-fi 17.3%, First-Person 16.8%, Story Rich 5.2%, Atmospheric 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It trades Portal’s comedy for philosophy, but its first-person puzzle spaces and layered mechanic combinations hit a very similar cerebral rhythm.

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 65.3%, First-Person 26.1%, Singleplayer 3.9%, Sci-fi 1.7%, Atmospheric 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more abstract and nonlinear take on first-person puzzle design, built around impossible spaces and constant mental reframing.

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 19.5%, First-Person 17.8%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Story Rich 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its clean sci-fi setting, solitary atmosphere, and portal-adjacent tool-based puzzles make it a strong fit for Aperture Science fans.

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 32.6%, Puzzle 24.2%, 3D Platformer 11.3%, First-Person 10.7%, Sci-fi 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This short free puzzle game openly wears its Portal inspiration on its sleeve with physics mechanics and a humorous AI narrator.

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%, Physics 18.7%, Comedy 11.4%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Singleplayer 5%

Why You'll Like It: It translates Portal’s test-chamber logic, hazards, and portal mechanics into a surprisingly faithful engineering-puzzle format.

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 33.4%, Funny 23.1%, First-Person 15.8%, Singleplayer 11.1%, Story Rich 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It’s a short but charming return to Aperture Science that preserves Portal’s humor, corporate absurdity, and gadget-testing vibe.

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 22.1%, 3D Platformer 15.7%, Puzzle 13.1%, Science 10%, Sci-fi 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers first-person puzzle rooms centered on a single clever gadget, with a similarly playful sci-fi-lab feel.

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 41.6%, Puzzle 32.7%, First-Person 17.8%, Atmospheric 3.6%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: It channels Portal’s spatial experimentation into gravity-flipping, Escher-like architecture that constantly challenges your sense of 3D space.

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 30.6%, Puzzle 15.2%, Sci-fi 10.6%, First-Person 10%, Science 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its magnetism and physics-based first-person puzzles deliver the same satisfying process of mastering a tool inside a futuristic research setting.

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 27.5%, Puzzle 20.6%, 3D Platformer 16.8%, Sci-fi 11.2%, First-Person 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It broadens the first game’s Portal-like puzzle philosophy with bigger spaces, more mechanics, and stronger environmental storytelling.

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 28.7%, Puzzle Platformer 15.7%, First-Person 14.6%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Female Protagonist 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: If what you really want is Portal’s exact puzzle design again in a visually overhauled form, this is the closest possible revisit without replaying the original title entry.

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 26.4% ★, Sci-fi 18.4%, FPS 13.6%, First-Person 11.5%, Puzzle 9%

Why You'll Like It: It is more action-heavy than Portal, but its Source-engine physics, environmental puzzles, and sci-fi worldbuilding make it an easy adjacent recommendation.

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

Why similar: Puzzle 29.1%, Puzzle Platformer 18.8%, First-Person 15.7%, Science 14.1%, Sci-fi 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: This stylish first-person puzzler mixes sharp narration with clean environmental challenges built around one elegantly applied mechanic.

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

Why similar: Puzzle 66.8%, First-Person 22.6%, Singleplayer 4.6%, Atmospheric 3.7%, Adventure 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: Although less comedic and less physical, it delivers the same pure satisfaction of learning environmental puzzle language through observation and experimentation.

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 20.1%, First-Person 15.7%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Sci-fi 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is less puzzle-focused, but its first-person movement, clean visual design, and emphasis on spatial traversal overlap with Portal’s platforming appeal.

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: Puzzle 68.2%, First-Person 22.3%, Singleplayer 3.7%, Story Rich 3.1%, Adventure 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more escape-room than platformer, it delivers satisfying first-person environmental puzzle solving with strong tactile logic.

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 34.3%, First-Person 27.3%, Funny 12.5%, Dark Humor 9%, Story Rich 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Portal’s first-person presentation and razor-dry comedic writing, even if its focus is more narrative experimentation than puzzles.

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 52.9%, First-Person 16.6%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Action 5.1%, FPS 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person sci-fi puzzles, test environments, and device-driven progression feel like a darker, more action-oriented cousin to Portal.

The Sojourn is a first-person puzzle game set in an immersive colour-drenched world of light and darkness. Think your way through dozens of puzzles as you traverse parallel worlds, awaken mysterious artifacts and overcome challenging obstacles on an unforgettable journey.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.5%, Puzzle 30%, First-Person 18.3%, Atmospheric 4.5%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on thoughtful first-person puzzle spaces and atmosphere, rewarding the same kind of calm spatial reasoning as Portal.

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 30.4%, 3D Platformer 22.6%, Puzzle 16.6%, First-Person 11.1%, Sci-fi 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person physics interactions and environmental hazards echo the more object-manipulation side of Portal’s design.

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 23.1%, First-Person 13.8%, Puzzle Platformer 12.1%, Science 12.1%, 3D Platformer 10.3%

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 60.2%, First-Person 35.6%, Adventure 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its isolated futuristic setting and room-based first-person logic puzzles make it a good fit if you liked Portal’s sterile sci-fi mood.

Relive Half-Life.

Why similar: Classic 26.7% ★, Sci-fi 22.2%, First-Person 18.8%, FPS 12.9%, Story Rich 5.4%

Refunct is a peaceful, short first-person platformer about restoring a vibrant world.

Why similar: 3D Platformer 36.9%, Puzzle Platformer 36.1%, First-Person 13.6%, Platformer 6.6%, Atmospheric 3%

Why You'll Like It: This minimalist first-person platformer captures some of Portal’s clean movement-based problem solving in a much more relaxed form.

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 31.2% ★, Sci-fi 19.5%, First-Person 17.7%, FPS 11.7%, Story Rich 5.9%

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 61.8%, First-Person 32.3%, Adventure 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person puzzler leans heavily on perspective, space, and narrated experimentation in a way that should appeal to Portal players.

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 22.9%, FPS 22.5%, Sci-fi 18.7%, Action 15.1%, Physics 13.3%

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 22.5%, First-Person 21.3%, Female Protagonist 20.4%, FPS 11.5%, Story Rich 7.7%

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 33.4%, FPS 32.3%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Action 10.5%, Singleplayer 5.6%

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

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 61.4%, Puzzle 22.4%, Platformer 7.1%, Atmospheric 3.1%, Physics 2.3%

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 11.7%, Comedy 10.9%, 3D Platformer 9.4%, Funny 6.9%

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 32.5%, Sci-fi 16%, Puzzle 15.3%, Funny 12.3%, Singleplayer 8.2%

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 19.7%, Funny 12.6%, FPS 11.5%

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

Why similar: First-Person 38.4%, Funny 22.7%, Sci-fi 18.9%, Adventure 13%, Singleplayer 7%

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 28.8%, 3D Platformer 17.8%, Puzzle 17.7%, First-Person 10%, Platformer 6.6%

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 27.2%, 3D Platformer 17.8%, Puzzle 15.4%, First-Person 10.3%, Female Protagonist 8.9%

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 44.7%, Puzzle 23.7%, First-Person 13.7%, Comedy 7.8%, Physics 5.3%

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 31.9%, 3D Platformer 22.2%, First-Person 12.6%, Science 7.1%, Physics 6%

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 27.2% ★, FPS 25.7%, Sci-fi 17%, First-Person 12.6%, Puzzle 5.6%

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 25.1%, Puzzle 18.7%, 3D Platformer 17.3%, First-Person 10.8%, Sci-fi 10.5%

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 39.9%, First-Person 26.5%, Funny 11.8%, Puzzle 10.5%, Story Rich 3.6%

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

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 62.6%, Puzzle 12.9%, Platformer 10.9%, 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 65.5%, Story Rich 15.3%, Action 8.1%, Singleplayer 5.9%, Adventure 5.1%

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

Why similar: FPS 41.3%, First-Person 38.7%, Action 15.5%, 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 13.3%

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 28.2% ★, Sci-fi 22.1%, FPS 19.1%, First-Person 18.1%, Action 10.7%

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 22.6%, 3D Platformer 17.4%, First-Person 13.5%, Sci-fi 11.6%

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

Why similar: Comedy 39.1%, Funny 24.4%, Physics 22.8%, 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 26.8%, 3D Platformer 19.7%, Puzzle 15%, First-Person 9.1%, Female Protagonist 8.6%

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

Why similar: Platformer 44.2%, Sci-fi 21.2%, Puzzle 17.6%, Singleplayer 9.4%, Action 5.5%

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

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.1%, 3D Platformer 23.5%, Puzzle 17.4%, First-Person 11.8%, Platformer 5.1%

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 24.7%, Puzzle 19%, Science 15%, 3D Platformer 11.6%, Sci-fi 10.9%