ARTICLE: Too Many Choices?

We were in Vegas and we had free Friday. So we spent it visiting Pinball Hall of Fame and talking about games. I was pretty lucky – our merry company was joined by Eric M. Lang. That meant a lot of interesting discussions about game design. ‘Don’t give players too

ANNOUNCEMENT: New Promos In the Store!

Today, we bring you two small expansions in our webstore! One for Imperial Settlers, one for Robinson Crusoe! Get yours now! Imperial Settlers – Storage Tiles Two new tiles that keep some resources between rounds. These two tiles help every player each round get a few more resources. Workers from

ANNOUNCEMENT: Neuroshima Hex T-shirt

It’s been three months since we released our Imperial Settlers shirt, time for another! Today, we bring you this awesome Neuroshima Hex shirt. Order yours today and be the first to wear your Moloch pride on your chest! We hope you enjoy our t-shirts. We want to bring you a

ARTICLE: Neuroshima Hex – New York

New York, the last bastion of man. At the start of the War, the Moloch believed New York was ruin. A few atomic bombs tend to do that. Thankfully, many survived, and in arrogance, Moloch ignored the city while focusing on destroying humankind elsewhere. Big mistake. Humans might be frail,

ANNOUNCEMENT: Portal Games Announces My Happy Farm

Portal Games announces My Happy Farm A new English language edition of the award winning game from Mysterium designers Oleksandr Nevskiy and Oleg Sidorenko. Gliwice, Poland – November 23rd, 2015. Today, Portal Games announced My Happy Farm, the award winning game from the same design team that brought you Mysterium.

ARTICLE: What Did The Rulebook Teach You?

Today I watched a very interesting video in which Gil Hova and Geoff Engelstein talked about writing rulebooks. They presented a thesis that each rulebook has two purposes: it has to be tutorial to teach us how to play the game and it has to be also reference book to

Welcome to PORTAL GAMES

We are bookworms. Movie maniacs. Story addicts. We grew up reading Tolkien, Howard, Herbert, Dick, Lem… We were watching Willow, Blade Runner, Never Ending Story, Robin Hood…

And yet, we don’t write books… we don’t make movies. We don’t make those things, because we make games. We make games that tell stories.