Portal
Waking up in a seemingly empty laboratory, the player is made to complete various physics-based puzzle challenges through numerous test chambers in order to test out the new Aperture Science Handheld Portal…
Portal is an adventure developed by Valve, released 10 October 2007 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Android. This page lists 24 cheat codes for it.
What Portal is
Portal is an adventure game developed by Valve and released in 2007. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Source. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Portal's plot is revealed to the player via audio messages or "announcements" from GLaDOS and visual elements inside rooms found in later levels. According to The Final Hours of Portal 2, the year is established to be "somewhere in 2010"—twelve years after Aperture Science has been abandoned. The game begins with Chell waking up from a stasis bed and hearing instructions and warnings from GLaDOS, an artificial intelligence, about upcoming tests. Chell enters into distinct chambers that introduce players to the game's mechanics, sequentially. GLaDOS's announcements serve as instructions to Chell and help the player progress through the game, but also develops the atmosphere and characterizes…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 15 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Portal series
Portal is the second of 18 entries we hold in the Portal series. The next entry was Portal: Still Alive in 2008. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Portal: Companion Collection at 100.
How it was received
Portal holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 4,054 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4.1 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 7.6 hrs, roughly 1.9 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Portal launched on 10 October 2007, within three weeks of Halo 3, The Witcher, Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Two. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Halo 3, The Witcher, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2: Episode Two.
Cheats and codes
We have tested and published 24 cheat entries for Portal — 24 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Portal cheat codes
Enable Cheats
Turns cheats on; use sv_cheats 0 to turn them off
Enable the console in Options, Controls, Advanced. Press the tilde key during gameplay, type the command and press Enter
Achievements are disabled while sv_cheats is on
Buddha Mode
Take damage but cannot die
Enable the console in Options, Controls, Advanced. Press the tilde key during gameplay, type sv_cheats 1, then the command and press Enter
Achievements are disabled while sv_cheats is on
Enable cheats first
Required before any other cheat command is accepted.
Enable the console in Options then press `.
Disables achievements for the session.
No Clip
Fly through walls and objects
Enable the console in Options, Controls, Advanced. Press the tilde key during gameplay, type sv_cheats 1, then the command and press Enter
Achievements are disabled while sv_cheats is on
Dlc
Quick answers
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