Portal 2 out now on Steam worldwide

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 19 April, 2011

Valve digitally delivers.

You can play the PC and Mac versions of Portal 2 two days before launch in UK shops by buying it from Steam.

The release is the result of an alternate reality game that culminated only a few hours ago. Valve has rewarded those who found all 36 potatoes hidden within the Portal 2 ARG with a free copy of the entire Valve Pack on Steam – which includes Portal 2.

UK shops such as GAME still have the first-person puzzler down for release on Thursday 21st April.

Eurogamer's Portal 2 review is live.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • PeacockDreams #1 1 year ago

    I like turtles

  • Eraysor #2 1 year ago

    Nice of Valve to reward all the people who worked hard to get those potatoes! Now I'm off to play the game :D

  • Cadence #3 1 year ago

    Reports anyone? What's it like?!

  • reelbigkris #4 1 year ago

    "UK shops such as GAME still have the first-person puzzler down for release on Thursday 21st April."

    "Portal 2 is due to be released 22/04/2011 on PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. Parents! If you think your kid might be interested in Portal 2, get them to check it out on Megaton.co.uk, our gaming site for kids."

    Has it been put foward to thursday? if so, i reckon Blockbuster will still try and screw me over and release it on the friday anyway :(

    Edit: they changed the article post notes! I'm so confused!

    Portal 2 is out now on PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. Parents! If you think your kid might be interested in Portal 2, get them to check it out on Megaton.co.uk, our gaming site for kids.
    Edited by reelbigkris at 19/04/11 @ 09:32

  • onezeonx #5 1 year ago

    It's been Thursday for ages

    Eurogamer in wrong info shocker :p

  • Antwandemarco #6 1 year ago

    I'm sitting over here playing on my I-Pad, when i could be in Florida, getting a tan on my back!

  • Hermiod #7 1 year ago

    It is still down for Thursday. My PS3 copy shipped from Game on Monday so I expect it to show up before then.

    @Cadence - Early days yet but it currently has a 95/100 Metacritic score, though only from 4 reviews.

  • Jonathan_Fakenham #8 1 year ago

    I just managed to decrypt it and browse through the main menu before I went to work today.
    When I get home tonight, I'm finally going to click that "new game" button.

  • StooMonster #9 1 year ago

    Going to finish work early today, and go to bed late.

  • Limp_interesting #10 1 year ago

    Hm, thats confusing. Some say release is today, some on thursday.

    Here in Germany you can grab it today! And so will I :p

  • Shinetop #11 1 year ago

    I bet that whenever someone spells it as "I-Pad", Steve Jobs doubles over in pain.

    I-Pad.
    I-Pad.





    I-Pad.

  • thesonglessbird #12 1 year ago

    I got up early to play before work. Played just over an hour.

    It's really good. Humour wise, it's like the final bit of Portal 1 non-stop. Some genuine LOLs.

    Graphically it's better than Portal 1. The engine hasn't improved a great amount (although there seems to be real time shadows) but I think Left4Dead might look a bit better. Artistically, it beats any other Valve game hands down.

    Some nice background music which gives it loads more atmosphere than Portal 1. Decent voice acting from Stephen Merchant.

    For co-op play, there is a STORE. Where you can buy new skins, gestures (you can wave, dance etc.). There's HATS too. Cue loads of people moaning like they're being forced to spend money. Haven't actually had a co-op game yet, the person I played against had a fucked up microphone so I could hear their sound and their family shouting in the background.

    That's all I got for now. Can't see anyone being disappointed though!

  • Toothball #13 1 year ago

    I managed to fit in an hour or so before work too. The slightly early launch didn't make that big a difference on this side of the Atlantic I guess, but working on it was suitably distracting.

    No complaints, although nothing particularly surprising yet. Plenty of time for that I'm sure.

  • gjgjg #14 1 year ago

    cool idea but i wonder how it will affect pc shop retail. pc games in shops dont have the same 2nd hand undercutting new sales, so its bound to be a bum deal on this sku. in the overall picture drop in the bucket i guess

  • Schiraman #15 1 year ago

    Bah. Shame that people like me who preordered a boxed copy of the game still have to wait :(

    The next few days are going to be very annoying :(

  • AaronTurner #16 1 year ago

    That's a pretty cool deal for those that went for the potato's. Very cool.

  • Byblos1 #17 1 year ago

    For some reason I feel this article reads like something you might see printed in a national newspaper, written by people who only have a vague idea what these 'videogame' things are.

    Provide no substantial information on the ARG, be sure to remind readers which shops sell videogames.