#Half life 2 free play download

In a statement on Steam, Valve writes, ' Half-Life: Alyx is set before the events of Half-Life 2 and the episodes, but the games share characters and story elements. RELATED: G-Man Spoke For The First Time In 12 Years To Say Happy New Year It's a lot of content, but you won't need until March to finish them all. Half-Life 2, even, isn't that long and the episodes go by quicker. The original Half-Life can be toppled in roughly eight-hours and the expansions are roughly 1/3rd of the length. Two months to play through all of these campaigns isn't that big of a task, though. The catch -if you can call it that- is that users won't be able to keep these games forever. That's quite a lot of games for exactly $0. This includes the original game (via its Source port), Opposing Force, Blue Shift, Half-Life: Deathmatch, and the entire Half-Life 2 saga.

#Half life 2 free play download

In a two-month promotion to garner attention on Valve's upcoming VR shooter, Steam users can now download and play each official installment in the Half-Life series. In the run-up to Alyx's release, Valve just made every Half-Life game free to play on Steam. Are you really excited for March's Half-Life: Alyx, but have somehow not played the previous Half-Life games? Have you always been looking for an opportunity to get in on Gordon Freeman's exploits, but didn't want to drop money? I think there are bigger questions with regards to that second one, but you can rest easy with your eternal waiting game.