Valve has announced today that their much-revered puzzle game, Portal, will be free for a limited time as part of their Learn with Portals video game education initiative.
And before you even think it, nope, there's no catch. At least, not one that we can see. The game is completely free until September 20th and it seems to be yours forever, not a temporary license kind of deal.
The deal is emerging as part of the Learn with Portals program that Valve is running to try to use games to get kids interested in math and science. You can check out a video below to see exactly what that means. It's a fairly adorable little video of Valve hosting a class of students on a field trip and teaching them to make Portal levels.
You can get your free copy on Steam.
iBod
September 19, 2011 at 1:37pm
could someone confirm this does or will work still after 20th...thanx...
seven9
September 17, 2011 at 10:05am
Soooo, am I the only one that has a very hard time reading their CAPTCHAs? I can't even create an account with Steam now because I entered it wrong 3 times. LOL So I thought that I would contact their technical support and you need an account to do that... I know they do it to keep bots from creating accounts but last I checked I'm human.
jmoudry
September 19, 2011 at 9:51pm
I switched from safari to firefox and got it on the first try. No idea why.
jmoudry
September 18, 2011 at 2:28pm
I've not been able to create an account either for the same reason.
Those captchas seem more like gotchas.
joshfriedman
September 17, 2011 at 8:43am
Unless I'm missing something, it's a demo version with a limited number of levels. Can't complain about a free download, but it's not really the full version.
cambookpro
September 17, 2011 at 10:44am
No mate, there is a demo and the full version. Download 'Portal', not 'Portal: First Slice' and you get the full one.
ohiodemon
September 17, 2011 at 6:45am
Could not create account, access my account, or download on Saturday morning at 9.45 Eastern time.
WigWag Workshop
September 16, 2011 at 6:08pm
I had to use the search feature on steam, I am downloading the game now.
gvcdkg
September 16, 2011 at 5:41pm
Hi
I checked steams website and they are still charging for portal. Does it start being free on Saturday?
