The voice acting is on-point, delivering sarcastic one-liners that even GLaDOS would be proud of. None of the team members work for Valve, but they could have easily fooled me. Now with that being said, Portal Stories: VR is absolutely worth a download for all fans of the Portal franchise. You have to have Portal 2 on your Steam account to play Portal Stories: VR, but you don’t need to have it installed or downloaded. Due to the licensing issues and trickiness of distributing something based on a property that you don’t own, this is listed in Steam as a mod for Portal 2, even though it isn’t actually a mod. I say ever-so-slightly simply because it’s a 100% free-to-download community-made experience that will only take you about 20-45 minutes to complete, depending on your experience with puzzle games and VR in general. Luckily, the fine folks at Prism Studios are here to satiate that appetite ever-so-slightly with the release of Portal Stories: VR, the successor to their hugely popular previous mod, Portal Stories: Mel. And can you blame them? The Vive’s motion controllers even vaguely resemble a Portal gun, so naturally it made sense to imagine that specific humorous sci-fi title would see a VR incarnation in some form. That’s hardly what fans were hoping for exactly. Here we are, several weeks removed from the launch of the consumer version of the platform and the closest thing we’ve got to any of those properties in VR is The Lab, which is little more than a collection of teases and demo experiences. Would Aperture Labs see a recreation specifically for VR? Would the likes of GLaDOS and the Portal franchise, Half Life, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress, and others transition to VR to help build a killer portfolio of platform exclusives? When people first heard about Valve’s involvement with HTC in the creation of the HTC Vive VR platform, speculations ran wild.

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