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Aperture Science. We do what we must, because we can.

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Portal is a First Person Puzzle Platformer video game series created by Valve that takes place in the same universe as the Half-Life series. As the name implies, the core gameplay element of the Portal games deals with using a "portal gun" to create doorway-type portals in order to solve physics based puzzles. The game features the protagonist Chell, a human who woke up as an unwilling test subject in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, a research facility which has become completely abandoned, save for the personality of the insane central A.I. GLaDOS.

Officially published games in the series:

Portal (2007): The relatively short game that started it all, chronicling Chell's journey as GLaDOS guides her through a series of test chambers in the Enrichment Center.

Portal 2 (2011): The sequel that takes place an unspecified amount of time after the original and is 2-3 times longer in terms of gameplay time. Portal 2 introduces a few major characters and explores in greater depth the history and workings of Aperture Science, as well as the origins and character of GLaDOS herself.

Advertisement: The Lab (2016): A Tech Demo Game for virtual reality, taking place in an Aperture Science pocket universe.

Aperture Hand Lab (2019): Another VR tech demo, showcasing the Valve Index Controller's finger tracking by having you interact with several hands-possessing personality cores.

Other media includes:

The official website of the Portal series can be found at ThinkWithPortals.com

Do not confuse this with the similarly-named but wildly different-in-tone Postal game series.

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