Valve's highly successful and acclaimed Portal, along with its sequel Portal 2, features a mysterious laboratory setting, which the player must navigate and escape armed with only their wits and a device that opens portals. Beating the game is a challenge for most, but for a fluffy pet rodent called Captain Hamster it seemed like a snap -- and he didn't even have a portal gun.

Captain Hamster's adventure is chronicled on YouTube, showing how he gets through each part of an incredibly detailed miniature reconstruction of the game's setting. The video opens with shots of each empty "room," and then the hamster is set loose in the first room, which resembles the futuristic glass-paned cell where the game opens.

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While thematically appropriate music and sound effects play, Captain Hamster explores his surroundings and takes on obstacles to get through each room. Since real portals of the kind used in the game are a product of science fiction (and would probably be inaccessible for hamsters anyway), the primary tools used to create his puzzles are exercise wheels. Climbing into the first one, he operates it and an attached string lifts up a model Weighted Companion Cube, revealing the exit to the room.

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Another wheel is raised as it turns, bringing Captain Hamster up to another level, and a third moves a tiny conveyor belt to drop a pile of the Weighted Cubes for him to climb onto and reach a higher shelf. While each of the puzzles is inspired in its own right, the really impressive part of the maze is its meticulously designed accuracy to the world of Portal. Familiar icons and props abound, from the mini security cameras to the patterning of the walls.

Fans of Portal who are cheering Captain Hamster on will be glad to see that at the end of his obstacle course, he's rewarded with a hamster-sized cake, much like the one continually promised by GLaDOS throughout the game and immortalized thereafter in memes.

Captain Hamster's accomplishments go beyond Portal. His owner has also constructed a "dungeon" full of items to investigate and backdrops evoking various themes, with potential for other mazes and puzzles in his future. What he'll get up to next is anyone's guess, but he's sure to look adorable doing it.

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Source: YouTube