Half-Life: Alyx

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.

Developer: Valve
Publisher: Valve
Franchise: Half-Life
Release date: Mar 23, 2020
Store page updated: Nov 12, 2025
Price: −75% ~~$59.99~~ $14.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

96.5/ 100

Based on 410 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating

Recent 😄 Very Positive 96% of 402

All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 98% of 105,348

“in its own league, exceptional VR experience”

How it holds up

−50+5

Gameplay

+2.83

Controls & feel +3.33 · Responsiveness, precision, and how the menus handle

“phenomenal good gameplay and controls” (23)

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Story & World

+4.16

World +4.42 · Lore, atmosphere, and how immersive the setting is

“atmosphere truly immersive, obsessive polish” (97)

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Content Volume

+0.96

Volume +1.42 · How much there is to play, including endgame, for the price

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Visuals & Sound

+4.63

Visuals +4.70 · Graphics, art style, and animation

“attention to detail is absurd, every key on piano works” (134)

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Multiplayer

+1.00

Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.

Netcode -3.50 · Server stability, ping, and disconnects

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Pricing & Fairness

+0.68

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Pricing +1.31 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

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Tech & Support

+1.42

Performance +2.06 · Frame rate, optimization, and loading times

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time

since launch, by month · major update DLC

Mar 2020Sep 2026

Reviews

per day · 399 reviews, peak 40/day

Aug 21Sep 18

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.