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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.

Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Franchise
Half-Life
Release date
Mar 23, 2020
Store page updated
Nov 12, 2025
Price
−75% $59.99 $14.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

96.5/ 100

Based on 410 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 96% of 395
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 98% of 105,311
“in its own league, exceptional VR experience”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+2.66
Controls & feel +3.33
“phenomenal good gameplay and controls” (23)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+3.95
World +4.42
“atmosphere truly immersive, obsessive polish” (97)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+1.36
Volume +1.42

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+4.33
Visuals +4.70
“attention to detail is absurd, every key on piano works” (134)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+4.00

Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +4.00

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-0.68

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Monetization +1.31

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-0.28
Performance +2.06

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
90%92%94%96%98%100%
Mar 2020Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 381 reviews, peak 40/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 410 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English34%
  • Russian20%
  • Chinese13%
  • Spanish10%
  • Portuguese6%
  • German5%
  • Other13%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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