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The gates to another world will open soon! You can stop the impending disaster, but to do so at all costs to return the stolen stamps! Vanessa is the only heiress of Abraham Van Helsinga, a member of the secret order of light guarding the peace of our world.

Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition is a casual, hidden object and adventure game developed by and published by 8floor.
Released on May 26th 2015 is available only on Windows in 8 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese and Russian.

It has received 493 reviews of which 451 were positive and 42 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition into these genres:

Casual Hidden Object Adventure Point & Click Puzzle Indie Strategy Action Female Protagonist Singleplayer Fantasy Mystery Supernatural Interactive Fiction Horror Lovecraftian Atmospheric Linear Escape Room Great Soundtrack

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS: XP/Vista/7/8
  • Processor: 1.6 GHz
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 1100 MB available space

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Oct. 2025
Overall, this game is a quality Hidden Object game with very detailed art and lots of extras. The story of the game is straight forward enough and it wasn't hard to follow or anything. You get small updates as you finish major sections or key events, but luckily for the most part you are left to explore and do puzzles on your own. The art I found to be very high-quality, certainly newer looking than some other games with a more animated art style--which there is nothing wrong with the games, but if a game looks good like this I have to say it's still impressive. The cutscenes are also well animated and integrated into the static scenes very well. Music was background music, fine to listen to but not very memorable. The games I found to be mostly OK. There is a good amount of both Hidden Object puzzles and more traditional puzzles. I found some of these to be fairly difficult for different reasons. Not anything that kept me from finishing the game, but sometimes I would just call it a night and take a fresh look at the puzzle the next day. The Hidden Object games had a strange design I hadn't seen before where when you find an object, the name is the bottom can be replaced with a new name. So essentially if there are 8 spaces, you would find 16 total items because each item would have an additional item under that first text. I get that this allows the game to have large readable text while still having a high number of objects to find. But when I first started playing I was just confused because I hadn't seen this done before and I thought it was a bug and the items I found were getting unmarked and reset instead. Otherwise, the scenes I found more difficult than most games because the swapping names made it hard to scan for multiple things at once and because of confusing names for certain objects. This game also has "sub-scenes" where you can look inside a chest for example to see another scene inside the Hidden Object scene with additional items in them. I'm familiar enough with this from other games, but some of the sub-scenes were not intuitive to find at all and also delayed finishing those puzzles. Usually at least once in a playthrough in most Hidden Object games I could finish one Hidden Object puzzle in 60 seconds or less (a common achievement in Hidden Object games, which this one also has), but in this game across both the main game and bonus adventure, I was never able to complete a single Hidden Object puzzle in that time. It might just be me, but I had to go back and start another playthrough and practice to get that achievement in this game. So, something to be aware of if you're looking for something more casual or find standard Hidden Object puzzles just challenging enough already. The non-Hidden Object puzzles were fine and easy to understand with the exception of one that was so poorly designed I did have to look it up. Sadly the guide had no explanation for how it was solved, and it really bothers me when games have puzzles that cannot be solved with any kind of logic or intuition. It really didn't seem to have any clues or logic to it at all. SPOILER TO SEE WHICH PUZZLE IT WAS: The puzzle that is outside near a temple entrance and bridge with 3 stone statues. You have to rotate sections of the statue to line up the correct sequence of patterns for each one. I didn't ever see anything that would have given you a meaningful clue to how the pattern was supposed to go. I don't know if this was supposed to be brute-forced or not, because every statue used the same patterns once found, but if so that's really a confusing and poor way to implement a puzzle. I would recommend just looking this puzzle up but the rest you can absolutely solve with the clues they give you. Most of the rest was fine, every so often you have the trope of an item seeming to have an illogical use that doesn't seem to make sense, and this game has at least one of those, but I didn't often get stuck for long unless it was on specific puzzles. Those gripes aside, the game I still found to have a lot of content and not only be a solid, well-rounded game with great art, but also was a great value for what it's listen considering the length of the game. It also includes collectibles and a bonus adventure which helps make this a really positive recommendation for me. This game does have a difficulty-related achievement so if you want to get all of the trophies in one playthrough then I would recommend you make sure to play on hard. (Although this game's hard mode still told you which locations had actions available so their hard is much more forgiving then most.) Another important note, the difficulty achievement includes the bonus adventure as part of the game, even though most Hidden Object games with a difficulty achievement do not. In order to get the achievement for beating the game on hard, you will need to compete both the main game and bonus adventure on the hard difficulty on one profile. This game has collectibles and a bonus adventure. I did not experience any technical issues while playing this game.
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June 2025
Pretty good for a H.O.G., but also on the harder side of things. Talkin' about the mini-games. Some of them... I swear... *-* Artwork is beautiful. Everything works as intended and H.O. scenes have two varieties: find an item or stick an item into the right spot. Story is pretty good... Some suspension of disbelief is necessary, but not too much. I gotta say though... The bad guy? Pretty obvious who it is. Lol. Also, the story ends in a cliffhanger... Dun dun dun! Well put together and some Achievements are pretty hard to get. GOOD.
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April 2025
5 bucks!<<<<Download it now! OK, the graphics are minimal, the sound is OK, the puzzles are just fine except, every now and then, they are too dark, uneasy to see, bla, bla, bla. That said: It's a Fun puzzle game. I'm so old that my memory is going, going, almost gone, BUT: The developers have included a MAP that let's you know where you are AND where you should be going. PLUS, They also have provided a HINT service in case you have decided that pulling your hair out is an option. It took me over 10 hours to play (I may have made a sandwich and forgot to pause the game), but for 5 bucks?...You can't lose.
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Jan. 2025
Very engaging. Would like further episodes. Kept me entertained for hours. Some of the HOGs were pretty dark and made some items not visible.
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Dec. 2024
Nice hidden object game with various runes being mislaid which seal the portal to hell. The minigames and hidden object scenes were well done. My only complaint is sometimes the cutscenes were plastic looking and bad, but sometimes they were fine.
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Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.

Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition received 451 positive votes out of a total of 493 achieving a rating of 8.51.
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Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition was published by 8floor.

Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition is not playable on MacOS.

Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition is not playable on Linux.

Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition is a single-player game.

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