One-off purchase
Portal 2 cost to play
What Portal 2 costs in the UK on Steam and, as part of a collection, on Switch, plus Steam player numbers and its PEGI rating.
Portal 2 gameplay, images and trailer
© Valve, Portal 2 trailer “E3 Demo (Excursion Funnels)” on Steam · Steam store page
The short version
- From £8.19: Cheapest standard price: Portal 2 (Steam UK, standard price)
- One-off price: Bought once; no store currency or random items on this page
- 8.5 h to beat: Main story: 8.5 hours (HowLongToBeat)
- 96p an hour: £8.19 ÷ 8.5 hours (main story)
- 4,082 Steam peak: Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts)
- PEGI 12: Age rating
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Portal 2 player count
Concurrent players on Steam, from Steam Charts, read 28 Oct 2026.
- Peak, last 30 days
- 4,082
- Peak, Sept 2026
- 2,804
- 1,474 on average
- Change vs Aug 2026
- +6%
- monthly peak
- All-time peak
- 14,984
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Is Portal 2 dead?
No. Portal 2 peaked at 2,804 players at once on Steam in September 2026, with 1,474 playing at any moment on average. That is steady with the three months before. These are Steam players only; people playing on PS3, Linux, Mac, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch or other PC stores aren't counted, so the real number is higher.
| Month | Average | Peak | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 1,474 | 2,804 | +5.7% |
| August 2026 | 1,540 | 2,654 | −32.9% |
| July 2026 | 2,047 | 3,956 | +5.8% |
| June 2026 | 1,599 | 3,738 | +41.8% |
| May 2026 | 1,501 | 2,636 | −14.6% |
| April 2026 | 1,608 | 3,086 | −20.3% |
| March 2026 | 1,767 | 3,871 | +25.0% |
| February 2026 | 1,672 | 3,098 | −39.8% |
| January 2026 | 2,338 | 5,146 | +5.1% |
| December 2025 | 2,117 | 4,898 | +78.9% |
| November 2025 | 1,489 | 2,738 | −32.4% |
| October 2025 | 1,649 | 4,052 | – |
What Portal 2 costs to play
| Item | Price | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portal 2 (Steam UK, standard price) | £8.19 | game | store.steampowered.com Checked 21 Oct 2026 |
| Portal: Companion Collection (Nintendo eShop UK, Nintendo Switch, standard price) | £13.49 | game | nintendo.com Checked 21 Oct 2026 |
How long is Portal 2?
Portal 2 takes about 8.5 hours to finish the main story, and about 23 hours to complete everything.
- Main story8.5 h
- Main + extras14 h
- Completionist23 h
Cost per hour (main story)
96p
£8.19 on Steam UK ÷ 8.5 h
Source: HowLongToBeat, read 28 Oct 2026. Your time will vary with difficulty and play style.
How Portal 2 is rated
GamesChart Score
91.2, #2 of 3,236 rated games
#1 of 2011 · #2 of the 2010s · #1 in Platform · #1 on Xbox
Critics
Players
Built from 440,840 ratings across 5 of 5 sources. Critics and players count 50/50. Ratings pulled 5 November 2026.
Where it sits in the ranking
- #1
God of War2018 · Santa Monica Studio91.3 - #2
Portal 22011 · Valve91.2 - #3
Baldur's Gate III2023 · Larian Studios91.0
Portal 2 questions
How much does Portal 2 cost in the UK?
Portal 2 (Steam UK, standard price): £8.19. Portal: Companion Collection (Nintendo eShop UK, Nintendo Switch, standard price): £13.49. Prices checked 21 October 2026.
Is Portal 2 free to play?
No. Portal 2 is not free to play: you buy the game to play it.
How long is Portal 2?
Main story: about 8.5 hours. Main + extras: about 14 hours. Completionist: about 23 hours (HowLongToBeat). At £8.19, that's 96p per hour (main story).
What age rating is Portal 2?
Portal 2 is rated PEGI 12.
How many people play Portal 2?
Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts): 4,082, checked 21 October 2026. Its all-time Steam peak is 14,984.
What is Portal 2's all-time Steam peak?
14,984 concurrent players on Steam, the highest Steam Charts has recorded for Portal 2 (read 28 October 2026). The peak in the last 30 days was 4,082. Players on other stores and consoles aren't counted.
Is Portal 2 dead?
No. Portal 2 peaked at 2,804 players at once on Steam in September 2026, with 1,474 playing at any moment on average. That is steady with the three months before. These are Steam players only; people playing on PS3, Linux, Mac, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch or other PC stores aren't counted, so the real number is higher.
Do these Portal 2 player numbers include consoles?
No. The player counts on this page are Steam only (Steam Charts, read 28 October 2026). People playing on PS3, Linux, Mac, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch, through Game Pass or on other PC stores aren't counted, and publishers rarely publish those figures.
Who makes Portal 2?
Portal 2 is developed by Valve.
Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle game, played alone or in two-player co-op, developed and published by Valve. It was first released in April 2011 on PC, Mac, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360; Steam lists its release date as 18 April 2011. Today it is sold at a one-off price on Steam, and on Nintendo Switch as part of a two-game collection.
How it plays
Portal 2 is a puzzle game built on portals and physics. In the single-player campaign the player explores new areas of the Aperture Science labs, with a larger set of test chambers, new puzzle elements and new characters, and meets GLaDOS again, the occasionally murderous computer from the first game. Valve says the physics allow a whole new range of challenges, making the game much larger but not harder.
A separate two-player co-op campaign has its own story, test chambers and two new player characters, and Valve says success needs players to think, not just act, together. Steam lists online co-op and shared or split-screen co-op.
Editing tools are included for making test chambers, and the Steam Workshop has chambers made by the community. The game also has original music.
What it costs
On Steam UK, Portal 2 costs £8.19 at standard price. Steam lists one piece of extra content for it; the Steam store also sells Portal 2 - The Final Hours for £1.69. On the Nintendo eShop UK, Portal 2 is only sold inside Portal: Companion Collection, which also contains the first Portal and costs £13.49.
Players
The 30-day peak on Steam Charts was 4,082 concurrent players on 21 October 2026. Its all-time peak on Steam is 14,984 concurrent players. Console players aren't counted.
Age rating
Portal 2 is rated PEGI 12 on pegi.info for violence and bad language, on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (rated 22 April 2011). Nintendo UK lists Portal: Companion Collection as PEGI 12 too.
It ranks #2 in our best games of all time ranking.
How we checked
Prices are the Steam UK and Nintendo eShop UK listings, read on 21 October 2026, at standard price. Player figures are from Steam Charts on the same day. The rating is from pegi.info. The gameplay description is based on the publisher's Steam store page.
Card art and page images: screenshots from Valve's Portal 2 Steam store page. © Valve. All trademarks belong to their owners. GamesChart is not endorsed by or affiliated with Valve.
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