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Half-Life: Alyx

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.
Review98.28%  95667  1676
GenresAction, Adventure
DeveloperValve
PublisherValve
DemoNot available
Category
  • Single-player
  • Steam Achievements
  • Tracked Controller Support
  • VR Only
  • Captions available
  • VR Support
  • Steam Workshop
  • Includes level editor
  • Family Sharing
Release dateMar 23, 2020
Supported OSWindows
Steam Deck Compatibility
Unsupported

Steam Deck does not support VR games

LanguagesEnglish*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Greek, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Romanian, Thai, Turkish, Finnish, Swedish
*languages with full audio support
Age ratings
2 age ratings found
  • 16 by DEJUS for Violência Extrema
  • 16 by STEAM_GERMANY for Horror
Content warning
  • Frequent Violence or Gore
  • General Mature Content

Includes violence and gore.

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DRM Notice-
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Game tags
VR2277FPS1994Story Rich1969Horror1966Female Protagonist1954Shooter1922Singleplayer1884First-Person1867Action1846Sci-fi1834Atmospheric1830Zombies1818Beautiful1794Aliens1749Adventure1734Futuristic1700Psychological Horror1690Memes1543Great Soundtrack725Gore260

Last update: 2025-06-16 (General data), 2025-06-16 (Steam Deck compat.), 2025-06-15 (Review data)

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