Half-Life: Alyx

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App ID	546560
App Type	Game
Developer	Valve
Publisher	Valve
Franchise	Half-Life
Supported Systems	Windows Linux
Technologies	Source2 Engine
Last Changenumber	31188451
Last Record Update	18 September 2025 – 20:05:31 UTC ()
Release Date	23 March 2020 – 17:00:00 UTC ()

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

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 ()

osarch

community_hub_visible

Yes

OpenVrSupport

Yes

ControllerVr

steamvr	1
oculus	1

PlayAreaVr

seated	1
standing	1
roomscale ↴
width	2
depth	1.5
360_required	0

vrheadsetstreaming

Yes

onlyvrsupport

Yes

openvr_action_manifest_path

game/hlvr/cfg/actions.json

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)

library_assets

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library_hero	en
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logo_position ↴
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height_pct	64.39862644681921

osextended

empty string

Aliases

review_score

review_percentage

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

configuration:

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requires_manual_keyboard_invoke	0
requires_non_controller_launcher_nav	0
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non_deck_display_glyphs	0
small_text	0
requires_internet_for_setup	0
requires_internet_for_singleplayer	0
recommended_runtime	proton-stable
requires_h264	0
requires_voice_files	0
gamescope_frame_limiter_not_supported	0
hdr_support	0

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

Hardware Categories

Tracked Controller Support

VR Only

Assets

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small_capsule

english

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header_image

english

header.jpg

library_assets_full

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library_hero ↴
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library_logo ↴
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logo_position/height_pct	64.39862644681921

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community_icon	225032ac2ad1aca8f5fd98baa2b9daf1eebea5ca.jpg
page_background_path	app/546560
timestamp	10 January 2023 – 22:54:57 UTC

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253732 ↴
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269742 ↴
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269743 ↴
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269744 ↴
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Depots

ID	Configuration	Size	DL.
228983	Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980VC 2010 Redist	No size
228990	Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980DirectX Jun 2010 Redist	No size
546561	Half-Life: Alyx Content	67.01 GiB	49.78 GiB
546563	Windows Half-Life: Alyx - Windows Binaries	901.39 MiB	557.64 MiB
546564	Linux Half-Life: Alyx - Linux Binaries	204.32 MiB	54.71 MiB
1295040	Windows 64-bitDLC 1295040Half-Life: Alyx - Workshop Tools (1295040) Depot	2.48 GiB	666.96 MiB

Total size on disk is 70.58 GiB and total download size is 51.03 GiB.

Total size on disk is 67.89 GiB and total download size is 50.32 GiB, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

Name	Description	Build ID	Time Updated
public		8694564	6 May 2022 – 23:39:59 UTC

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Name	Value
workshopdepot	Half-Life: Alyx (546560)
privatebranches	1
appmanagesdlc	1

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