Half-Life: Alyx on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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.

Half-Life: Alyx is a vr, fps and horror game developed and published by Valve.
Released on March 23rd 2020 is available only on Windows in 28 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Greek, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Romanian, Thai, Turkish, Finnish and Swedish.

It has received 96,508 reviews of which 94,845 were positive and 1,663 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.7 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 58.99€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Core i5-7500 / Ryzen 5 1600
  • Memory: 12 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GTX 1060 / RX 580 - 6GB VRAM
  • VR Support: SteamVR

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March 2025
what sucks the most about this game, is that after you play it, you'll realize nothing else on VR comes close even 5 years later and you'll fall into depression. 10/10
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March 2025
This game is highly engaging and you feel like you are in Alyx's world. It is difficult but not too difficult even for a 67 year old gamer like me :)
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March 2025
This game alone is worth 1) its price 2) the price of a VR headset (Valve Index recommended) 3) the price of a new middle-range video card 4) the effort to restructure your PC room to make space for VR it's all worth it
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July 2024
This game ruined VR for me as no other experience comes close. Just some things that happened while playing this game : -Got a near heart-attack and raised my hands into the air as guns were pointed at me while I was unarmed. -I was on my knees and tried to lift myself by putting my hand on a coffee table that only existed virtually. -Nearly fell as I tried to lean back against a wall that only existed virtually. -Very carefully stepped on a ledge because I feared a large fall. If you have any VR headset, buy this game.
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July 2024
--{ Graphics }--- β˜‘ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Donβ€˜t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- β˜‘ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- β˜‘ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids β˜‘ Teens β˜‘ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent β˜‘ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable β˜‘ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' β˜‘ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- β˜‘ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely β˜‘ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average β˜‘ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! β˜‘ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of β˜‘ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 β˜‘ 10
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Half-Life: Alyx
9.7
94,845
1,663
Online players
418
Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Release 23 Mar 2020
VR VR Only
Platforms