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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.
718 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
79 months, March 2020 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 438 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 280 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Half-Life: Alyx was released on 23 Mar, 2020.
Includes violence and gore.
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Half-Life: Alyx Announce Trailer
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Half-Life: Alyx Gameplay 1
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24 developer announcements, Nov 2019 to Jan 2026 · times in UTC
After five years waiting in the vault, the Half-Life: Alyx Original Soundtrack is breaking into the physical world with new vinyl and CD releases coming April 24th. To celebrate, we're making the game 70% off for the next week:Physical…
JakeFixed transition from a1_intro_world_2 to a2_quarantine_entrance. Allowed Workshop Tag dialog to be resized. Content Build ID: 8694564
Patch notesUpdated the Workshop Tag list, based upon the community's suggestions. Changed the method used to transition from a1_intro_world to a1_intro_world_2. This fixes addons being broken across that transition. Content Build ID: 8644003
Patch notesIt's been quite the year since we launched Half-Life: Alyx, our full-length virtual reality return to Half-Life. Shortly after its debut, we enabled Steam Workshop support to open the doors for the creativity of mod-makers and make it easy…
AldenAs we celebrate the one-year anniversary since the launch of Half-Life: Alyx (more on that here), we thought it would be interesting to look at some of the great mods that the community have been creating that bring so much more life to HL…
AldenChanges New honorary achievement for Gnome Chompski's upcoming journey into space on Rocket Lab's "Return To Sender" mission. Content Build ID: 5850798
Patch notesGame Fixes Fixed a case where developer commentary would appear to turn off when continuing from an autosave generated at the start of a map Correctly display commentary panel on primary hand in single-controller mode Corrected numbering of…
Patch notes{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36225228/6d5f3ddedcf737f344a1ee9e671e45b14de41599.png Developer Commentary contains significant spoilers. We highly recommend that you play the game to its conclusion before enabling commentary As you may recall, the…
Half-Life: Alyx TeamGame Fixes Fixed recent problem preventing creating or updating new Workshop items. Content Build ID: 5292973
Patch notesThis update includes some small fixes discovered after the bigger 1.4.1 Update released earlier this week. Game Fixes Fixed a regression where attempting to hack a tripmine could crash. The in-game Addon menu no longer lists templates and…
Patch notesGame Features & FixesAdded option to turn off Valve Index pre-order weapon skins to the Preferences menu. Fixed wine bottle labels that had been regressed by the liquids update, and fixed several issues with the liquid shader. Fixed an…
Patch notesGame Features Added subtitles for: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Vietnamese Bottles now appear to have liquid inside them that sloshes around as you shake them. UI appears quicker when…
Patch notesChanges: Added missing tools lighting preview environments and associated assets. Fixed Hammer's "entity-only" compile mode not working properly. Fixed a bug that prevented interactive prefabs and other physics entities from compiling…
Patch notes{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36225228/fc17307cccb990965a73479c7df826c9659f3b53.jpg Half-Life: Alyx has been updated to include Steam Workshop support. This includes a beta release of our community development tools, as well as support for Linux and…
Half-Life: Alyx TeamWe are excited to announce the launch of the Half-Life: Alyx Soundtrack. Today we are releasing Chapter 1. Entanglement, which includes 9 tracks in both MP3 (320K) and FLAC formats. We will be releasing all 11 chapters of the soundtrack…
BlueChanges: Fixes for issues with carrying contained objects (e.g. objects in a crate). Fix for hand orientation on Windows MR and Vive systems. Fix for some missing haptic feedback on Windows MR and Vive systems. Fix for controller systems…
Patch notesJoin the Half-Life: Alyx team in a behind-the-scenes deep dive that examines locomotion and player presence in the game. Valve developers Jason Mitchell, Luke Nalker, Greg Coomer, and Roland Shaw share some of our early prototypes, and walk…
Half-Life: Alyx TeamAdditions: Added full-featured support for left / right hand for movement controls, independently of left / right hand for weapon controls. To use this: Select Left / Right hand in the in-game UI, and then select the desired Weapon /…
Patch notesChanges: Improved turning options in Preferences: - Added "Continuous Turn", and associated turning speed options. - Renamed "Quick turn" to "Snap Turn" to make its functionality clearer. - Added option to disable controller turning.…
Patch notesIt's here. Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's long-awaited return to the Half-Life series, is NOW AVAILABLE to play. Compatible with all PC-based VR headsets, the game has been designed from the ground up for virtual reality. Half-Life: Alyx can be…
augusta{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36225228/2e5f58e571d2e630486dc9d6963b13a83bb47704.jpg On Monday March 9th, the Valve Index VR system will be made available again for purchase after having been out of stock for some time. Recent demand for the Index…
GregoriHalf-Life: Alyx releases to Steam on March 23, 2020. Today we're releasing three gameplay videos, showing a variety of environments and play styles. Each one is a live capture of the game running in real-time, featuring one of the…
chrisr{STEAM_CLAN_LOC_IMAGE}/36225228/51f8471c605f02a30f64421b919f719c208d316e.jpg Half-Life: Alyx is coming in March, and we are celebrating early by making all games in the Half-Life Collection FREE to play for Steam users, from now until the…
GregoriIt’s here! Half-Life: Alyx is available for pre-purchase NOW, and set for a March 2020 release. Watch the trailer: Valve’s return to the award-winning series in virtual reality takes place between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2.…
GregoriEverything Steam lists as add-on content for this game, newest first. Prices are left out on purpose: the store answers this page in one currency and it is not the reader's.
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| Half-Life: Alyx Soundtrack | WindowsmacOSLinux | 05 May 2020 |
What Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
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| Launch | game/bin/win64/hlvr.exe | -vr -steam -noasserts -nopassiveasserts +map startup | windows 64 | |
| Workshop Tools | game/bin/win64/hlvrcfg.exe | -steam -retail | windows 64 | needs DLC 1295040 |
| Launch | game/hlvr.sh | -vr -steam -noasserts -nopassiveasserts +map startup -vulkan | linux 64 |
The folders Steam Cloud syncs. The root is a token Steam uses for a location on your own machine, not a path this page can know.
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gameinstall | game/hlvr/save | * and below |
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