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

Made by Gearbox Software and originally released in 2001 as an add-on to Half-Life, Blue Shift is a return to the Black Mesa Research Facility in which you play as Barney Calhoun, the security guard sidekick who helped Gordon out of so many sticky situations.

Half-Life: Blue Shift is a fps, action and sci-fi game developed by Gearbox Software and published by Valve.
Released on June 01st 2001 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 3 languages: English, French and German.

It has received 18,527 reviews of which 17,131 were positive and 1,396 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. ๐Ÿ˜

The game is currently priced at 4.99โ‚ฌ on Steam.


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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Minimum: 500 mhz processor, 96mb ram, 16mb video card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

Recommended: 800 mhz processor, 128mb ram, 32mb+ video card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

MacOS
Minimum: OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3, 1GB RAM, 4GB Hard Drive Space,NVIDIA GeForce 8 or higher, ATI X1600 or higher, or Intel HD 3000 or higher Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection
Linux
Minimum: Linux Ubuntu 12.04, Dual-core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz, 1GB Memory, nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeaon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11), OpenGL 2.1, 4GB Hard Drive Space, OpenAL Compatible Sound Card

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Dec. 2024
This game was like sprinkles on a donut, half life is the main course "the donut" but putting the sprinkles "blue shift" on the donut adds more too it. Sure it's just sprinkles but most people would agree that adding sprinkles will enhance the favor of the dount. The security in blue shift certainly would agree, and I do too.
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Nov. 2024
---{ Graphics }--- โ˜ You forget what reality is โ˜ Beautiful โ˜‘ Good โ˜ Decent โ˜ Bad โ˜ Donโ€˜t look too long at it โ˜ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- โ˜ Very good โ˜‘ Good โ˜ It's just gameplay โ˜ Mehh โ˜ Watch paint dry instead โ˜ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- โ˜‘ Eargasm โ˜ Very good โ˜ Good โ˜ Not too bad โ˜ Bad โ˜ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- โ˜‘ Kids โ˜‘ Teens โ˜‘ Adults โ˜ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- โ˜‘ Check if you can run paint โ˜ Potato โ˜ Decent โ˜ Fast โ˜ Rich boi โ˜ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- โ˜ Floppy Disk โ˜‘ Old Fashioned โ˜ Workable โ˜ Big โ˜ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive โ˜ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it โ˜ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- โ˜ Just press 'W' โ˜ Easy โ˜‘ Easy to learn / Hard to master โ˜ Significant brain usage โ˜ Difficult โ˜ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- โ˜‘ Nothing to grind โ˜ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks โ˜ Isn't necessary to progress โ˜ Average grind level โ˜ Too much grind โ˜ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- โ˜ No Story โ˜ Some lore โ˜ Average โ˜‘ Good โ˜ Lovely โ˜ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- โ˜‘ Long enough for a cup of coffee โ˜ Short โ˜ Average โ˜ Long โ˜ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- โ˜ It's free! โ˜‘ Worth the price โ˜ If it's on sale โ˜ If u have some spare money left โ˜ Not recommended โ˜ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- โ˜ Never heard of โ˜‘ Minor bugs โ˜ Can get annoying โ˜ ARK: Survival Evolved โ˜ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- โ˜ 1 โ˜ 2 โ˜ 3 โ˜ 4 โ˜ 5 โ˜ 6 โ˜ 7 โ˜‘ 8 โ˜ 9 โ˜ 10
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Oct. 2024
Was a great side story. I missed out playing this when I was younger so being able to try it now was amazing. Took me about 8 hours to complete without rushing.
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June 2024
Blue Shift is definitely underrated. Sure it wasn't as good as Opposing Force but it was still enjoyable.
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May 2024
Very good game, with an interesting story. It's nice to see the Half-Life events from a security guard's perspective. Playing Blue Shift was fun, but it's just too damn short. It also didn't deliver anything new to Half-Life, but at the time Half-Life was a perfect FPS game, so Blue Shift was also (by extension) perfect. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3053395417 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3035385944
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Half-Life: Blue Shift
9.0
17,131
1,396
Online players
30
Developer
Gearbox Software
Publisher
Valve
Release 01 Jun 2001
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