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Portal is -free- for -everyone- until May 24th

Portal is extremely short. In that even if you know absolutely nothing about the game, it'll take you about two or three hours to beat at most. And despite the absolute fountain of memes it's spawned and its humor, the game has a creepy, overly-sterile edge to it that really jars with certain things you'll see in the game. I'd have to say that alone, it's not worth being released for anywhere near a full price of a game, but as part of a compilation (like The Orange Box) or for free, it's more than worth it.

It has quite a few things over Scribblenauts, if that's what your worried about: It's very, very short, so it's easy to just breeze through replays. It's very well put-together and the physics are solid. The puzzles aren't easy, but they're intuitive and satisfying to solve, and the game rarely gets outright frustrating.
 
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If you haven't ever played it before it'll most likely take you a bit longer than a couple of hours to complete it.

Also a month or two ago I finally got the 'Aperture Science' achievement. Whoo.
 
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