The best game from Valve isn’t Half-Life (2), at least according to Karsten. Grab the portal gun and meet one of the best villains in video game history!
- Genre: Funny puzzle platformer
- Price: 9.75 euros each
- Release: Part 1 – October 10, 2007 / Part 2 – April 19, 2011
- Steam Rating: 97 and 98 percent respectively
- Portal on Steam / Portal 2 on Steam
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- Cinderia (Recommendation from Niko)
- Kingdom Two Crowns (Recommendation from Alex)
- 911 Operator (Recommendation from Cedric)
- My Time at Portia (Recommendation from Jasmin)
- Dread Delusion (Recommendation from Christos)
- Little Nightmares (Recommendation from Caro)
- Pentiment (Recommendation from Christoph)
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 (Recommendation from Leya)
- Portal 1 & 2 (Recommendation from Karsten)
Karsten cheats and has 2 must-play games for you: In my personal top 10 of the best games of all time, Portal and Portal 2 come right after World of Warcraft in second place. There are few other classics that I could still confidently recommend as must-play games to all gaming newcomers and veterans alike, as much fun as these two puzzle platformers from Valve bring.
The first Portal was at the time the big surprise of the Orange Box, which I actually bought for Half-Life 2: Episode Two. The Valve developers wonderfully created a great, varied puzzle game around the brilliant portal gun, along with GlaDOS as one of the most humorous and memorable antagonists in video game history.
They adorned the rather short playing experience of the first part with the best credits song of all time: “This was a triumph. I’m making a note here; Huge success. It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.” Well, who doesn’t have an earworm now?
With Portal 2, the surprise effect was naturally gone. Valve countered: It is bigger, more varied, and funnier than its predecessor. The witty banter between GlaDOS and Wheatley ranks among the funniest things you can hear in this medium. The puzzles received additional facets and physics games. To top it all off, there’s the brilliant co-op mode. In short: Invest the few euros and thank me later!
What bargain recommendations excite you right now on Steam or other platforms? Feel free to share in the comments! By the way, colleague Benedict Grothaus currently has so many tips that he has written a separate article about them, the rascal: 4 of the best RPGs on Steam are currently under 6 euros, but for one you need to be very quick
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