While limited VR ownership hampered total sales, the game still sold enough to be considered a success. The game was meant to be VR’s killer app, and it supports all Steam VR-compatible headsets, which includes the Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, and all Windows Mixed Reality headsets. The game put players in the shoes of a younger Alyx Vance, and followed her on an adventure through the Combine-infested City 17. While it was no Half-Life 3, Alyx proved a worthy continuation of the franchise. Half-Life: Alyxappeared during an age when it felt like a new Half-Life game was never happening. That’s a long time to wait for one of the more story-focused first-person shooter franchises to receive a new installment, and it was only made more painful by Episode 2’s cliffhanger. More importantly, this was the first time Half-Life received a full new entry since Half-Life 2: Episode 2 in 2007. This is the first official game to explore the Half-Life universe since Portal-inspired VR experience The Lab, which released alongside the HTC Vive in April 2016.

In November 2019, Valve shocked the world by announcing Half-Life: Alyx, a virtual reality-based interquel set between the first two Half-Life games.

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