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Portal

Valve

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Open on Steam

US now

$9.99

sampled low $9.99

Recent

EnglishOverwhelmingly Positive (198,885)

Cost · guess

$5.3M–$39M USD

Earnings · guess

$16M–$84M USD

Guesstimates in USD, not publisher books or Valve data. Do not use them for investing, deals, taxes, or reporting.

How this guesstimate is made

Cost to make. Modeled as 25–90 people over 2–2.5 years at a loaded $105k–$175k USD per person-year. Development only, not marketing. Not a published budget.

Steam earnings. Steam earnings in USD from ~3.8M–9.6M copies × a mix of US list and sale price.

Development time guesstimate: 2–2.5 years. Confidence: high. Time uses studio scale or a published figure. Cost to make is headcount × production years × a loaded USD cost per person-year, or a filing/interview number when one is on file. Steam earnings (USD) are reviews × a copies-per-review band × a mix of US list and sale price. These are independent algorithmic estimates from public data — not factual, not publisher books, not Valve.

Players

Exact in-game count from Steam’s public player API. The 24h change is versus PCGDB’s sample from about a day ago.

WaitingWaiting for first sample · every 60s

All sampled timeSep 19, 01:19 AM – Sep 20, 12:19 AM

Drag to zoom · hatched region is future

In-game now

551

+71 vs 24h

24h peak

805

All-time

805

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.

Regional prices

Historical low for US:

Now

$9.99

Launch

$9.99

Off

Price history starts at the first sample. Steam does not publish a public price archive.

Region-locked SKUs

    Steam news

    • No public Steam news sampled for this app.

    Editions and DLC

    Extra store packages and DLC from Steam’s last snapshot. DLC opens on PCGDB. A package that is not its own app opens on Steam.