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First release
Jun 01, 2004
Publisher
Valve
Engine
Source
Genres
Adventure, Platform, Shooter, Puzzle · Warfare, Action, Science fiction, Horror, Thriller
Platforms
PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Linux

Half-Life: Source is a port of Valve's original acclaimed game Half-Life to their new Source engine used for Half-Life 2. It takes advantage of vertex and pixel shaders to create realistic water effects, and can now portray realistic physics effects. It also has new menus, improved lighting and soft shadows, ragdoll character animations, and a 3D skybox replacing the old 16-bit color prerendered bitmap skies.

Also known as HλLF-LIFE: SOURCE

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Storyline
You play as Gordon Freeman, a 27-year-old theoretical physicist working at Black Mesa Research facility in the New Mexico desert. When an experiment goes wrong, you turn from scientist to survivor, fighting your way through aliens and the soldiers sent to cover the incident up.Read more

You play as Gordon Freeman, a 27-year-old theoretical physicist working at Black Mesa Research facility in the New Mexico desert. When an experiment goes wrong, you turn from scientist to survivor, fighting your way through aliens and the soldiers sent to cover the incident up.

Release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Jun 01, 2004
Mac
Sep 25, 2013
Linux
Sep 25, 2013
Time to beatIGDB · recorded
Main Story
9h
Main + Extras
13h
Completionist
15h
Age ratings
ESRB M
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
First person
Keywords
aliens

At a Glance

Main Story (IGDB)
9h
Main + Extras (IGDB)
13h
Completionist (IGDB)
15h
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  • Deutschinterface
IGDB · recorded 7 Oct 2026
Also in 9 other languages

Language data: IGDB · recorded 7 Oct 2026