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Tonight at a glance

Platforms
Linux · PC · Mac
Mode
Single player · Multiplayer
Age rating
PEGI 16
Violence
Strong
Frights
Strong

Why tonight?

  • It goes hard on violence and frights — not a wind-down.

The story

Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. It was Valve's debut product and the first game in the Half-Life series. The player assumes the role of Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist who must escape from the Black Mesa Research Facility after it is overrun by aliens following a disastrous scientific experiment. Its gameplay consists of diverse combat, exploration and puzzles.

  • Action
  • Science fiction
  • Horror
  • Thriller
  • Warfare
  • aliens
  • assassin
  • bloody
  • gravity
  • death

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

Production

Players
88 / 100 · 2,905 players
Critics
80 / 100 · 1 critic
Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve, Sierra Entertainment

If this stayed with you

Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.