This is a big day for the Half-Life series, as Valve’s popular and excellent VR game, Half-Life: Alyx, celebrates its first birthday today, March 23rd. To celebrate the occasion, Valve is discounting the game by a healthy 40%, dropping the price of the game to just $ 36 USD.
This discount is only available for a limited time as the transaction expires on March 31 at 10:00 PT. Check out the store page on Steam to find out more and to order the game, which requires a virtual reality headset to play.
“We are very grateful to the Half-Life community. Game has been a much-needed bright spot for many of us over the past year, and we consider ourselves lucky to be a part of it,” Valve wrote.
Valve also mentioned the “enthusiastic” reaction to Half-Life: Alyx in terms of mods. Players have so far created and released more than 800 of them. Here’s a summary of some of the most notable available on Steam, and it includes a mod in which Alyx’s hands are gravity guns, another one that automatically picks up and stores ammunition, and one that features Gordon Freeman’s two-handed crowbar at the add game.
Half-Life: Alyx was GameSpot’s 2020 Game of the Year. “Not only has Half-Life: Alyx done well with the move to VR, it’s enhanced many of the aspects we’re going through about Half-Life games,” reviewer Michael Higham said in GameSpot’s Half-Life: Alyx review. “Half-Life: Alyx hits you with something memorable, surpassing VR troops for one of the greatest games’ moments.
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