

Portal Defect
Gin Motion · April 14, 2021 · Casual, Roguelike, Action Roguelike, Dungeon Crawler, Hack and Slash
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About Portal Defect

Prepare to be kept in the loop
Portal Defect is a Top-Down Roguelite set in the Future/Past (depends on how you look at it) and you adventure through random levels and pick up randomly dropped weapons and spells.
You are a new agent for a shady corporation called "the Hive" send back to the past to change it to your clients liking....
may that be the assassination of kings or the extermination of a new chicken breed that will win every beauty pageant from the year 2151 onwards.
But not everything goes as planned... upon returning your portal has a defect and keeps you in an eternal loop thru history.
Will you be able to escape and return home? or will die trying?
About the game
- Its your job to survive and complete your mission.
- Procedural generated worlds will keep you on your toes... or knees
- 10+ weapons and 20+ spells... find the best combo
- you Die? you Restart from scratch!... God bless Permadeath
- Play with a friend (Multiplayer comes end of Early Access/full Release)
Portal Defect is still in Early Access. I will gradually fix bugs, add more content, and overall polish the gameplay.
Thank you for your support! I will try my best to make a game you want to return to as often as you can :)
Portal Defect — game info
- Platforms
- Windows
- Player modes
- Single-player
- Controller
- Full controller support
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
"Portal Defect" is a mediocre and rather unpolished/badly optimised 3D rendered 2D top down brawler with some lightweight RPG elements. The game features no proper level design or game/story flow/plot, as they opted to try to use samey repetitive procgen algorithms as a substitute for adding such content to the game. As a result, the game doesn't actually have any content worth mentioning, just endless, boring, repetitive, soulless algorithmically generated sameyness. Developers must learn that procedural generation is not an acceptable substitute for content. The graphics in this game are really quite good, which at least makes the game look more appealing (I'm assuming these aren't flipped assets... if they are then we have a problem). And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $1 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's…2 found this helpful
It crashed on medium settings :31 found this helpful
Can't play, controls broken1 found this helpful
[h1]Before I played Portal Defect, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]1 found this helpful
"Defect" is most certainly an appropriate word for this mess of a game because everything about it is defective. Optimization is terrible and it has some of the worst control issues I have ever encountered. Forget about using a keyboard because you must use the arrow keys to face a certain direction then WSAD to move in that direction. Even using a controller is highly awkward. Also forget about playing in 4k resolution because I was getting frame rates in the low 30s with an RTX2080 and i9 processor no matter what graphic setting. Playing in 1080p also looked blurry to me. The music slider and music off option also do absolutely nothing, so there is no way to turn off the incredibly annoying music. There are also some really long loading screens that seem as if the game has locked up your pc until you are finally allowed to continue. And for some reason, this game takes up more than 20gb of hard drive space. There is also no way to pause or save the game, so when you die you must start completely over. I also found no way of replenishing ammo. Although by then I was extremely ready to uninstall this awful game. I cannot recommend this game at all, even when it's free. It's that ba…1 found this helpful
Игра 'Portal Defect' оказалась приятным сюрпризом. Будучи фанатом оригинальной Portal, я ожидал чего-то похожего, но игра предложила свой уникальный взгляд на портальную механику. Головоломки здесь ощущаются свежими и продуманными, требуя не только логики, но и творческого подхода к решению. Графика, хоть и не передовая, вполне функциональна и не отвлекает от геймплея. Сюжет, пусть и не самый глубокий, добавляет мотивации к прохождению. Механики, вроде манипуляции временем и пространством, реализованы интересно и добавляют вариативности в прохождении уровней. Порой сложность заставляет попотеть, но чувство удовлетворения от найденного решения просто невероятное. Небольшие шероховатости в управлении не критичны и быстро забываются. В целом, 'Portal Defect' - это отличная головоломка, которая точно понравится любителям жанра и тем, кто соскучился по играм, заставляющим думать. Рекомендую к ознакомлению всем, кто ищет что-то новое и интересное в мире головоломок. Игра определенно стоит потраченного времени и способна увлечь на несколько часов.
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