Despite soon approaching its 14th anniversary, Valve's first-person puzzle title Portal 2 is currently experiencing a big player count boost on Steam. It's unclear exactly why Portal 2 has experienced a significant influx of players, although there are a few potential reasons.
Portal 2 launched in 2011 as the long-awaited sequel to the 2007 original. The game continued Valve's hot streak of great titles, and received massive amounts of critical acclaim from fans and critics alike. Blending outstanding humor and storytelling with complex puzzles, Portal 2 has long been considered one of, if not the best puzzle game ever made. It's among Valve's best-ever games, which is a high standard for the studio behind the Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress, and Counter-Strike series.
The Switch port of both Portal and Portal 2 was announced recently, and now someone discovers that the decade-old sequel was hiding secret levels.
Looking at Portal 2's recent player count on SteamDB, the game has a 24-hour peak of 9,862 at the time of writing. It last achieved similar numbers in January 2024 when fan mod Portal Revolution was released, and only went higher in March 2023. Before...
