Genre PuzzleReleased Oct 10, 2007

Portal

Developed and published by Valve
Estimated lifetime revenue
$10.72M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$7.54M
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
2.05M
≈ 10 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 200,568 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
200,568
Overwhelmingly Positive99% positive
Playing now
446
9-day peak 681 · low 446
New reviews, last 9 days
+594
≈ 66 a day since Oct 7

History

Oct 7 – Oct 16

200.6K200.4K200.2K199.9K
Oct 7Oct 11Oct 16

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

Puzzle →

Against the 129 most-reviewed Puzzle games on Steam

Outearns 76% of them — in the top quarter of the group.

Median
$5.19M
34,415 reviews
Top 10% start at
$26.46M
This game
$10.72M
94th pct. by reviews

The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.

About

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.

Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Genre
Puzzle
Released
Oct 10, 2007
Steam app ID
400
Data updated
Oct 16, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.