Portal
Worth it · Shooter · 2007
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.22/hr
- ReviewsS
- 99% of 201,138
- Critics
- 90 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.1h
- To 100%
- 10.5h 3.4x the story
- Achievements
- 15
Price and sales
- Sales
- 65 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 June 2017
- Sale every
- 61d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 504 now
- Recent reviews
- 99% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
81% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 65 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $8.99 BANGER line 65 times.
Its score puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is the best reviewed of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Portal 2 ($9.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Suicide Guy ($0.77, scores 79).
More about Portal
The press gave it 90; the people who bought it give it 99 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 16,725 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.1 hours; clearing it takes 11, which is 3.4 times the campaign.
201,138 reviews stand behind that percentage.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
If you're reading reviews for Portal all you need to know is that it's one of the cornerstones of gaming's golden age. It's short and excellent.
2 more reviews
one of the best game made by valve ;-; i would rate this a solid 10/10 but found it a bit small ;-; like i finished this in 1.5 hour ;-; then replayed again and took me even less
I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it. I'm so GLaD I played this game. The song was completely unexpected and it summed it up perfectly. I NEED a weighted companion cube yesterday, actually. 10/10
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Runs on Windows, Linux.
Cite this score
Portal scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/400/portalReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.