April 18, 2026 marks the 15-year anniversary of Portal 2’s launch. Beneath, we reminisce about its memorable story, novel cooperative two-player mode, and enduring comedy.
There was a time within the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 period when Valve was spoiling us with video games, packaging some wonderful titles in The Orange Field and bringing us back-to-back Left 4 Useless entries. However the firm hit a stride with the 2011 launch of Portal 2, which may be its best accomplishment of that era.
Following up from 2007’s Portal, Valve would nonetheless have had a success if it had solely made and launched the single-player marketing campaign, however the builders went the additional mile with the addition of a full-fledged co-op campaign–which itself would have been an equally worthy sequel to Portal by itself, and on reflection, was a harbinger for cooperative and social video games trending at present.
