
- 42/100
- Metacritic6 critic reviews
More scores
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 30/100
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 2.5/5
- Player reviews
- 40% positive291 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$19.99
Where to get it

2023 · Arcade · Indie
Enchanted Portals
Bobby and Penny, rookie magicians, enter an adventure to get back to their dimension and retrieve the Magic Book in Enchanted Portals, a co-op 2D platformer.
- Released
- 5 September 2023
- Platforms
- Nintendo SwitchPlayStation 4PlayStation 5WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/S
- Genres
- ArcadeIndiePlatformerShoot 'em upShooter
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- MultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- ActionFantasyKids
- Country
- Spain
- Age ratings
- GRAC 15+USK 12ACB PGCLASS_IND 10PEGI 7ESRB T
- Languages
- Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, English (UK), Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese and 9 more
- Time to beat
- 4hmain story5hcompletionist
About
Enchanted Portals is a platform video game developed and published by Xixo Games Studio. It was released on September 5, 2023, for Microsoft Windows, September 8, 2023, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, and November 1 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. The game drew comparisons to the 2017 platformer Cuphead, with whom it shares its gameplay and visual style. It received largely negative reviews.
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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Enchanted Portals is a 2D platformer in which players take the role of Bobby and Penny, rookie wizards stuck between dimensions after an accident involving a magic book. The game can be played either alone or cooperatively. Enchanted Portals consists of platforming stages broken up by boss fights, with players being able to utilise various magical power-ups to help them overcome challenges. These power-ups include three kinds of spell attacks, a protective bubble to block an attack, and the ability to swipe at certain obstacles with the playable character's wand. Some boss levels also add certain changes in the gameplay or setting.
Story
While Bobby and Penny are doing housework, the former accidentally knocks a book off of a shelf. When the two look at it, they see instructions for creating a portal and follow the steps to make one. However, the portal that Bobby and Penny create ends up sucking the two inside of it, along with their pet cat and the magic book, which soon becomes alive.
Bobby and Penny explore a variety of different worlds, including a spooky forest with a haunted hotel, a spaceship piloted by a cyborg cow, an island with an ancient temple, a castle with frogs, and a town populated by roosters. While making it through all of these dimensions, they fight the worlds' hostile inhabitants and look for the sentient magic book.
Development
In October 2019, Xixo Games Studio, a Spanish two-person development team, announced that they were planning to fund Enchanted Portals via a Kickstarter campaign. After a delay due to negotiations with a prospective publisher, the campaign was launched in 2020. The Kickstarter failed to meet its €120,000 goal.
Enchanted Portals was released on September 6, 2023, for Windows. It was later released for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S on September 8. A physical release of the PlayStation 5 version referred to as the Tales Edition was released on September 29. The game was released on the Nintendo Switch in Europe on October 23, and in North America on November 1.
Reception
A trailer for the game was released on YouTube and Twitter on October 8, 2019. Viewers negatively compared the game to its inspiration, Cuphead.
Upon release, Enchanted Portals received a number of negative reviews, with review aggregator Metacritic summarising the critical reception of the PlayStation 5 version as "generally unfavorable". On OpenCritic, the reception from top critics is "weak", with less than 20% of the general critics recommending it.
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