FWIW our ds was once heavily addicted to Spore... and when he was tired of it and ready to move on he also asked for Portals and was really excited about it. I think this was about the time Portals 2 first came out but I can't remember for sure... we were never able to install it due to some hangup on our laptop (might be because it's a Mac?) and I also recall being a little concerned about something with it but can't remember what! It might have been that you have to be online to play it, but I don't remember for sure.

polarbear