

Portal 2’s gel mechanic is famously inspired by Tag: The Power of Paint, a student game that used a paintgun to create paths in levels. Download Thinking With Time Machine Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative by Aperture Tag Team You can pick up cubes to be dropped down a shaft, which would be lost forever, but you can then run to the bottom of the shaft and replay it, grabbing a cube before it’s lost. So you can crouch down in a level and then stand on your own head to reach a higher area. When you replay that level, your clone will perform that action, and you can walk through the door your past self is now keeping open.Įvery move you make is replayed. You can record yourself running and standing on the button. In simple terms: say you have a button that opens a door when the player stands on it, and closes when you move away from it. This one lets you record your own movements, then solve puzzles as that recording plays out in the level. Thinking With Time Machines is another time travel test series. Download Portal Reloaded Thinking With Time Machine by Stridemann There are 25 levels of Valve-quality puzzling, and the new mechanic never outlives itself. The same cube can be pressing two different buttons in the present. Glass walls in the present could be broken in the future, letting you portal into different areas across space and time. You can bring future objects back into the present, so they exist in the same map as their past self. Moving objects in the present will change their position in the future. Moving between the two levels will let you access areas unavailable between one and the other. It lets you switch between the present version of the level, and a far future version where the decay and rot has changed the layout. Portal Reloaded by PORTANISĪs if thinking with Portals wasn’t hard enough, Portal Reloaded makes it more complicated by adding in time travel, letting you step 20 years into the future to solve puzzles. All you need to do is subscribe to the mod on its workshop page, and it’ll be available under the Community Test Chambers menu in-game. The rest are installed via Portal 2’s Steam Workshop. This means it’ll launch on its own, though you do have to own Portal 2. Some mods have their own store page, where you’ll install the game as you would any other game on Steam.

You can either click the individual links to go straight to the mod question, or just carry on reading the whole list.Īll the mods here are available via Steam. As mentioned above, there are no doubt hundreds more great Portal 2 mods out there, but the ones listed below are our personally curated cream of the crop.
