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Half-Life: Source
Winner of over 50 Game of the Year awards, Half-Life set new standards for action games when it was released in 1998. Half-Life: Source is a digitally remastered version of the critically acclaimed and best selling PC game, enhanced via Source technology to include physics simulation, enhanced effec
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
15 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“This is a great game, if you know how to install mods. Out of the box, this game is buggy as crap and is hardly playable. However, there is an easy fix for this and that fix is to download the Half-Life Source fixed mod.”
“◆ Current thought ◆ Is still the same half life, but with source engine, some of the bug might be a bit annoy but after all, I still manage to complete the game with no problem, thank to source engine you can skip a lot…”
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just…”
12 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Half life source is buggy and glitched, but I still love it. Its hard to make me hate a half life game, and this actually looks pretty good in some parts. I like the new physics and lighting. Valve should fix this game…”
“真的没有那么差!我超喜欢起源引擎的布娃娃效果,那些Bug完全不会影响游戏的整体体验”
“1. I love the shiny floors 2. I love the shiny floors 3. I love the shiny floors 4. I love the shiny floors 5. I love the shiny floors 6. I love the shiny floors”
6 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Source Engine "remaster" of Half Life 1 Fun to play for the bugs, not for the actual game. You should just get the original game instead: https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/”
“not buggy and really good”
“dont know why people say this has bugs this is a very good game only encountered a few bugs and very good for garry's mod”
21 of the 104 reviews raise this · 13 of them still recommend the game.
“killed a head crab zombie. it started shaking and stretching violently before disappearing into the ether. 10/10. thank you valve better than Half-life (non-source)”
“Half life source is buggy and glitched, but I still love it. Its hard to make me hate a half life game, and this actually looks pretty good in some parts. I like the new physics and lighting. Valve should fix this game…”
“Yeah, the updates to the Source engine over the years have broken this game. A lot of broken effects, maps, animations etc. There are mods out there that try to fix all the issues Valve never bothered to, but even then…”
12 of the 104 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Source Engine "remaster" of Half Life 1 Fun to play for the bugs, not for the actual game. You should just get the original game instead: https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/”
“loaded up this played for 30 mins realized how bad it was bought half life 1 only used half life source for GMOD”
“I hear this has become a buggy (ier?) mess than when I played it last because it's been abandoned by Valve. I didn't think it was terrible, but I preferred the death animations to the soft-bodied ragdolls. And the water…”
12 of the 104 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Basically just Garry's Mod DLC, get the normal game.”
“This is only good for Gmod. Otherwise this sucks major balls.”
“only useful for gmod models”
8 of the 104 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Yeah, the updates to the Source engine over the years have broken this game. A lot of broken effects, maps, animations etc. There are mods out there that try to fix all the issues Valve never bothered to, but even then…”
“I hear this has become a buggy (ier?) mess than when I played it last because it's been abandoned by Valve. I didn't think it was terrible, but I preferred the death animations to the soft-bodied ragdolls. And the water…”
“The original goldsource version of halflife looks and plays better. This version is very buggy. Works with gmod tho, so that's pretty cool.”
3 of the 104 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Really good game, just wish my pc could handle the graphics”
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just…”
“The games different with what I though was better graphics. But there are instances when certains scenes the graphics becomes glitchy, making it difficult to play that section. I was already 3/4 of the thru the game…”
Counted across 104 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 68.9% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“In the modern era 30 Half-Life Sources come out every month and no one cares. This is truly the bonzi buddy of remasters.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“On the one hand, they added ragdoll physics, and corpses now fall naturally rather than animatedly, water now shimmers, dynamic shadows have appeared, the interface has been redesigned to match the style of the second game, and the menus are now more user-friendly. But that's…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“It breaks my heart to negatively review a game from one of my favourite franchises. If you want to experience Half-Life, please do not play this game. Play the original one. That is infinitely better! This game breaks more things than it improved over the original. For example,…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:37 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
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Half-Life: Source update released
We have updated the public release of Half-Life: Source. This update contains all the changes from the recent beta, thanks to the whole community for their help with testing and suggesting new feature
Half-Life: Source update released
We have updated the public release of Half-Life: Source. This update contains all the changes from the recent beta, thanks to the whole community for their help with testing and suggesting new feature
Half-Life: Source Beta update released
We have started a new Beta for Half-Life: Source. To access this beta go to the Properties page for Half-Life: Source and use the Beta tab to opt-in. To opt-out use the same tab. Changes in this updat
Half-Life: Source Beta update released
We have started a new Beta for Half-Life: Source. To access this beta go to the Properties page for Half-Life: Source and use the Beta tab to opt-in. To opt-out use the same tab. Changes in this updat
Half-Life: Source update released
We have updated the public release of Half-Life: Source. This update contains all the changes from the recent beta, thanks to the whole community for their help with testing and suggesting new feature
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action |
| Player tags | FPS · Action · Classic · Sci-fi · Singleplayer · First-Person · Shooter · Aliens · 1990's · Zombies · Story Rich · Adventure (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Remote Play Together · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Korean |
| Estimated owners | 2,000,000 – 5,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: 1.2 GHz Processor, 256MB RAM, DirectX 7 level graphics card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection Recommended: 2.4 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX 9 level graphics card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection