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Half-Life: Alyx

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App ID 546560
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Valve
Franchise Half-Life
Supported Systems Windows Linux
Technologies Source2 Engine
Last Changenumber 29395496
Last Record Update 5 June 2025 – 12:58:18 UTC ()
Release Date 23 March 2020 – 17:00:00 UTC ()
🤩 96.76%
97k reviews
483
In-Game

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. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.

Additional Information

Developer Valve
metacritic_name Half-Life: Alyx
metacritic_score 93
metacritic_fullurl https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/half-life-alyx?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1f
community_visible_stats Yes
workshop_visible Yes
MinClientVersion 15 May 2020 – 03:36:56 UTC () (1589513816)
ReleaseState released
Publisher Valve
Store Release Date 23 March 2020 – 16:50:00 UTC ()
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community_hub_visible Yes
OpenVrSupport Yes
ControllerVr
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Primary Genre Action (1)
Store Genres Action (1), Adventure (25)
Steam Release Date 23 March 2020 – 17:00:00 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 26 October 2022 – 22:29:43 UTC () (1666823383)
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Aliases HL
review_score 9
review_percentage 98
Detected Technologies (?) Source2 Engine, Autodesk_FBX SDK, OpenVR SDK, Qt SDK, SDL SDK, Steam_Audio SDK, Steam_Networking SDK, V8 SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • Steam Deck does not support VR games
  •  
  • category: Unsupported
  • steamos_compatibility: Unknown
  • test_timestamp: 8 February 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: No build
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Content Descriptors Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)
First seen on SteamDB 19 October 2016 – 18:11:25 UTC (), in changelist #2364512
Content Descriptors (Including DLC) Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)

Supported Languages

28 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles Achievements
English Yes Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes Yes
Japanese Yes Yes Yes
Korean Yes Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes Yes Yes
Spanish - Latin America Yes Yes Yes
Traditional Chinese Yes Yes Yes
Italian Yes Yes Yes
Czech Yes Yes Yes
Hungarian Yes Yes Yes
Polish Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese - Portugal Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese - Brazil Yes Yes Yes
Ukrainian Yes Yes Yes
Vietnamese Yes Yes Yes
Bulgarian Yes Yes Yes
Greek Yes Yes Yes
Danish Yes Yes Yes
Dutch Yes Yes Yes
Norwegian Yes Yes Yes
Romanian Yes Yes Yes
Thai Yes Yes Yes
Turkish Yes Yes Yes
Finnish Yes Yes Yes
Swedish Yes Yes Yes

Tags

🥽 VR 🔫 FPS 📚 Story Rich 😱 Horror 👩 Female Protagonist 🔫 Shooter 👤 Singleplayer 🙌 First-Person 💥 Action 🚀 Sci-fi 🌫 Atmospheric 🧟 Zombies 🦚 Beautiful 👽 Aliens 🗺️ Adventure 🌆 Futuristic 🕴 Psychological Horror 🤣 Memes 🎶 Great Soundtrack 😖 Gore

Categories

Single-player Steam Achievements Captions available Steam Workshop Includes level editor Family Sharing

Hardware Categories

Tracked Controller Support VR Only

Assets

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timestamp10 January 2023 – 22:54:57 UTC
Trailers
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  • 483 players right now
  • 614 24-hour peak
  • 42,858 all-time peak 23 March 2020
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  • 249,540 followers
  • #270 in top sellers
  • 95,959 positive reviews
  • 1,684 negative reviews
  • 98.28% positive reviews

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  • 162 24-hour peak
  • 303,620 all-time peak
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  • 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive
  • 96.76% SteamDB Rating
  • 95,959 98.3% positive reviews
  • 1,684 1.7% negative reviews

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Half-Life: Alyx had an all-time peak of 42858 concurrent players on 23 March 2020.

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