Bridge Constructor Portal

Bridge Constructor Portal is an engineering simulation and puzzle video game set in the universe of the Portal series. Players are tasked with designing and constructing bridges to get one or more trucks from one location to another at Aperture Laboratories under the supervision of the artificial intelligence GLaDOS.

The game merges elements from the Bridge Constructor series and Portal series. Players are tasked with building bridges using struts (which can be converted to road segments) and cables, anchored to pre-designated fixed points on the level's walls. The limited availability of fixed points may require the player to construct self-supporting bridges. These bridges must be able to withstand their own weight, as well as the trucks and any force they impart when landing on the bridge. Elements from Portal require the player to guide the trucks across the bridges, navigate through portals, cross over buttons to open doors or other actions, avoid coming in sight of sentry turrets or in contact with deadly fluid or laser fields, and use other Portal gameplay elements like propulsion and repulsion gels and launching pads.

Bridge Constructor Portal is developed by ClockStone and published by Headup Games. The two studios worked throughout 2017 on a successor to their 2011 video game Bridge Constructor. They partnered with Valve who created and own the Portal series to help with gameplay elements from Portal, art assets, and lore from the Portal series. This includes bringing Ellen McLain to voice GLaDOS for the game.

The game was announced on December 6, 2017. It was released on December 20, 2017, for Android and iOS mobile devices, and for Linux, macOS and Windows-based personal computers. The game was released on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on February 28, 2018.

Bridge Constructor Portal received "generally favorable" reception, according to review aggregator platform Metacritic. IGN reviewer TJ Hafer found the game to be simple and intuitive while still managing to offer and fulfilling level of depth and challenge. He was slightly disappointed that the portals remained static in the levels and that the game featured no puzzles that involved placing portals. Although he did not think the humor was on par with previous Portal games, he noted that the aesthetics and sound design were reminiscent of those earlier titles.

Destructoid writer Jordan Devore agreed that the game was straightforward and that constructing structures was easy to carry out. He found the pacing of the game to be good during the first half but thought it had exhausted introducing new mechanics by the later half, opting to focus on greater complexity and more variables in the puzzles. The game was nominated for "Puzzle" at the 2018 Webby Awards.