Yes, worth buying.
At $9.99. It has been as low as $1.99.
- Story and characters: 107 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Performance: 70 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 59 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Bugs: 9 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 163k player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Right away, the dissonance between what the player knows vs. what the protagonist knows establishes Freeman as being competent and respected (necessary facets of the character if the entire plot is to be believable) while also introducing the kind of player agency and freedom that makes Half-Life so great.
Half-Life is one of the most important and influential FPS games ever made.
Whereas progression provides a feeling of freedom through self-paced exploration, it’s the brilliant combat that lets the player truly express themselves.
Don't let the outdated graphics and goofy dialogue fool you, this game is a great time.
Kelly Bailey's soundtrack is also one of the strongest parts of the game's atmosphere.
The 25th Anniversary Update, Black Mesa, an ocean of mods left in its wake, it spawned multiplayer franchises, influenced and inspired avalanches and tsunamis of developers and studios and people and their pets across the globe.
+1 more the community rallied around
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $9.99. The lowest we've tracked is $1.99.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
Steam hasn’t given us this game’s achievement count. We’ll show it once it does.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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