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Half-Life: Alyx

2020 • Valve

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Platforms
Steam VR
Genres
ShooterPuzzleAdventureActionScience fiction
Franchises
Half-Life
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Alyx Vance and her father Eli mount an early resistance to the Combine's brutal occupation of Earth.
Critics9 critic reviews
9.3/10
Players252 IGDB players
9.3/10
To finish the story
14h
Your rating

Should You Play It?

Great fit if you want

Problems to work out for yourself
Gunplay at the centre of it
A story that leads you somewhere
To play it in VR

Think twice if you want

To play without a headset
What it feels like
  • Story-led
  • Thoughtful
  • Combat-focused
  • Solo
Time commitment
Main journey
14h
Completionist
21h

Moderate. About a week of evenings.

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How Long It Takes

Rushing it
7 hours
Normally
14 hours
Completionist
21 hours

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Story

Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival. The Combine’s control of the planet since the Black Mesa incident has only strengthened as they corral the remaining population in cities. Among them are some of Earth’s greatest scientists: you and your father, Dr. Eli Vance. As founders of a fledgling resistance, you’ve continued your clandestine scientific activity - performing critical research, and building invaluable tools for the few humans brave enough to defy the Combine. Every day, you learn more about your enemy, and every day you work toward finding a weakness.

Series

Part of the Half-Life series. 2 more games here.

  • Half-Life
  • Half-Life 2

Details

Release date
23 March 2020
Developer
Valve
Engine
Source 2
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Virtual Reality
Themes
Action, Science fiction
Genres
Shooter, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms
Steam VR
Critic score
9.39 critic reviews • Source: IGDB
Player score
9.3252 IGDB players • Source: IGDB
Combined score
9.3critics and players blended, 261 ratings • Source: IGDB
Series
Half-Life
Anticipated by
5 people before release
Type
Main Game
Companies
Valve (Developer, Publisher)
Also known as
hlvr.exe, Half Life Alyx

Release Dates

Steam VR
Mar 23, 2020

Platforms and Makers

SteamVR logo

SteamVR

Valve logo

Valve • Developer, Publisher

Engine

Source 2

Source 2 is a 3D video game engine in development by Valve as a successor to Source. It is used in Dota 2, SteamVR Home, Half-Life: Alyx, S&box, Counter-Strike 2, and more. Source 2 was first made public with the Dota 2 Workshop Tools Alpha in August 6th 2014 and formally announced by Valve in March of 2015 at the Game Developers Conference. It was then implemented into Dota 2 on June 17th 2015. Valve has announced that Source 2 will be released to the public for free, and it will only take money should it be used for commercial products. The engine is capable of rendering highly complex and well detailed scenes with minimal framerate drops, thanks to its new 64-bit support alongside Vulkan, allowing for better multi-core rendering and more efficient 3D rendering.

Popularity

24hr Hours Watched
0.000
Playing
0.000
Global Top Sellers
0.000
Played
0.000
Visits
0.000
Want to Play
0.000
Total Reviews
0.001
Negative Reviews
0.000
24hr Peak Players
0.000
Postitive Reviews
0.001

Languages

Interface
Norwegian, Turkish, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, Czech, Hungarian, Korean, English, French, German, Chinese (Simplified), Russian, Chinese (Traditional), Portuguese (Brazil), Danish, Dutch, Spanish (Spain), Japanese, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Subtitles
Thai, Turkish, Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Spanish (Spain), Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, English, French, German, Czech, Portuguese (Brazil), Korean, Russian, Ukrainian
Audio
English

Tags

female protagonistblack protagoniststory richvr only

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  • Steam

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