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Portal

"The cake is a lie" in Portal, a puzzle-adventure game created by Valve. Players play as silent protagonist Chell, a young woman who wakes up in a translucent cube-shaped cell, guided to solve a series of tasks using a strange device known as a portal-gun. To escape this odd testing facility, players must guide Chell through increasingly complicated puzzle rooms where they must use their portal-generating gun to progress, all while being mocked by a devious-yet-comical AI known as GLaDOS.

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Portal

Franchise
Portal
Platform(s)
PC , Linux
Released
October 10, 2007
Developer(s)
Valve
Publisher(s)
Valve
Genre(s)
Puzzle
ESRB
e10+
How Long To Beat
3 Hours
Sequel
Portal 2

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