Portal
Valve · released Oct 10, 2007
Price
$9.99
US store
Reviews
98%
175,566 · Overwhelmingly Positive
Playing now
301
sampled 14h ago
24h peak
330
all-time seen 391
Followers
—
1d ago
Owners (est.)
~5.3M
2.6M – 8.4M
YouTube activity
8
videos · 30 d27
creators884K
views · 1 yTwitch activity 13 watching · 2 live
27
avg viewers · 30 d2.4K
hours watched · 30 d72
streamers · 30 dProduct info
from Steam's PICS · read 1d ago- Change number
- 40,848,479 · seen 1d ago
- Public build
- 19,017,868 · Jun 27, 2025 (1y ago)
- Operating systems
- windows, macos, linux
- Architecture
- —
- Install size
- 9.0 GB · 5.4 GB download
- Install folder
Portal- Controller support
- Full
- Metacritic
- 90
- Homepage
- www.whatistheorangebox.com/
- Release state
- —
- Community
- hub · stats
Steam Deck
VerifiedTested Jun 4, 2026
- ✓Default controller config fully functional
- ✓Controller glyphs match deck device
- ✓Interface text is legible
- ✓Default configuration is performant
Branches · 3
every build Steam serves for this app| Branch | Build | Updated | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| public | 19,017,868 | Jun 27, 2025 · 1y ago | |
| deck_test | 466,272 | Jun 27, 2025 · 1y ago | deck ui test |
| beta | 13,095,453 | May 21, 2025 · 1y ago | SteamPipe Beta |
Build history
every build id we have seen on a branch (history starts with our first read)| Build | Branch | Released | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| 466,272 | deck_test | Jun 27, 2025 14:37 | 3d ago |
| 19,017,868 | public | Jun 27, 2025 14:26 | 3d ago |
| 13,095,453 | beta | May 21, 2025 17:32 | 3d ago |
Depots · 10
content of the public branch| Depot | Name | OS | Language | DLC / shared | Size | Download | Manifest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401 | all | 4.2 GB | 2.5 GB | 3169084482272098670 | |||
| 402 | windows | 163 MB | 65 MB | 7655374749121348667 | |||
| 403 | macos | 110 MB | 34 MB | 8974907495363134881 | |||
| 404 | linux | 150 MB | 51 MB | 1961797017312074949 | |||
| 405 | all | russian | 86 MB | 76 MB | 453200351187428393 | ||
| 406 | all | spanish | 147 MB | 104 MB | 8904830885129684315 | ||
| 407 | all | french | 147 MB | 112 MB | 8242589767738537927 | ||
| 408 | all | german | 146 MB | 114 MB | 8794244784218856360 | ||
| 409 | all | 3.8 GB | 2.4 GB | 5466869569815608374 | |||
| 410 | all | 8.6 KB | 3.1 KB | 106212190778449766 |
Launch options · 4
| Executable | OS | Description |
|---|---|---|
hl2.exe-game portal -steam |
windows | |
hl2.sh-game portal -steam |
macos | |
hl2.sh-game portal -steam |
linux | |
PortalRTX\hl2.exe-game portal_rtx -steam |
windows | Portal with RTX |
Languages · 27
| Language | Interface | Full audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thai | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Czech | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Dutch | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Greek | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Spanish - Latin America | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Danish | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| French | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| German | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polish | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| English | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Finnish | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Italian | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Korean | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Russian | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spanish | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Swedish | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Turkish | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Japanese | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Romanian | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Simplified Chinese | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Traditional Chinese | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Portuguese - Brazil | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Bulgarian | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Hungarian | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Norwegian | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Ukrainian | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Portuguese | ✓ | — | ✓ |
Packages · 2
all packagesBundles · 2
all bundles| Bundle | Games | Bundle discount | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valve Complete Pack | 20 | -10% | $116.84 |
| Portal Bundle | 2 | -25% | $14.98 |
Change numbers
all changes#40,848,479 · 1d ago
Updates · patch notes
Steam announcements tagged as patch notes, linked to the public build they followed
| When | Note | Build | Update size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2025 | Portal - Update An update has been released for Portal: - Fixed some fire effects not working in some mods. |
19,017,868 | 8.4 GB total |
| May 28, 2025 | Portal - Update An update has been released for Portal: - Fixed a client crash in particles. - Improvements to main menu layout across all resolutions. - Fixed effects to not produce blood spray when getting shot. - Fixed credits text on PC so ASCII art doesn't get clipped. |
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| May 23, 2025 | Portal - Update An update has been released for Portal - Fixed fire effects in the ending sequence. - Fixed a crash in some mods when picking up a Half-Life 2 weapon. - Fixed a main menu crash in some mods. - Fixed chapter icon scaling in some menus. |
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| May 19, 2025 | Portal - Update An update has been released for Portal: - Fixed the executable stack error on Linux. |
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| Feb 14, 2025 | Portal Update An update has been released for Portal. - Roll back previous update while fixing an endgame crash. |
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| Feb 13, 2025 | Portal Update An update has been release for Portal. - Fixed a startup crash on the Linux client. |
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| Jan 5, 2024 | Portal - Update An update has been released for Portal. - Fixed a couple of rare crashes. |
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| Jan 17, 2023 | Portal Update An update has been released for Portal - Minor code maintenance, no customer-facing changes. |
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| Nov 19, 2022 | Portal - Update An update has been released for Portal. - Updated to DXVK version 2.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2022 | Portal: Update An update has been released for Portal. - Fixed UI scaling issues when docking the Steam Deck - Fixed broken control states when external controllers are connected |
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| Apr 13, 2022 | Portal - Update An update has been released for Portal. - Localization updates - Added DXVK cache priming for the Steam Deck |
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| Feb 28, 2022 | Portal - Update An update has been released for Portal. - Controller and UI work for Steam Deck verification. - Integrated all updates and fixes from the Half-Life 2 code base. |
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