Half-Life: Alyx

Story-driven VR shooter with hands-on puzzles and alien horror

Valve · Released Mar 23, 2020

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 98% of 105K
Recent reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 96% of 464 in 30 days
Playing now: 216; peak 24h 281
Steam Deck: Unsupported
Last update: 5 days ago; Sep 17, 2026

What is Half-Life: Alyx?

A first-person, single-player VR action-adventure set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, with Alyx Vance working in a resistance against the alien Combine. You explore environments, search for supplies, handle objects and weapons by hand, solve puzzles, hack interfaces, and fight enemies.

For you if...

+you want physical VR interactions, exploration, and environmental puzzles
+you like story-driven science-fiction shooters with horror elements
+you prefer a single-player adventure built specifically for VR

Not for you if...

−you do not want to play with a VR headset
−you want multiplayer rather than a solo story campaign
−you avoid horror, zombies, and headcrab encounters

What players say

98% of 105,422 reviews are positive · 96% of 464 in the last 30 days

Players praise the detailed object interactions, atmosphere, visuals, sound, and VR-focused exploration and combat. Recent complaints focus on crashes, launch failures, lag, loading freezes, and compatibility problems with some headsets.

Screenshots and trailer

Half-Life: Alyx system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Core i5-7500 / Ryzen 5 1600
Graphics: GTX 1060 / RX 580 - 6GB VRAM
Memory: 12 GB RAM

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 42
Steam features: Workshop, Family Sharing, VR

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Steam o s does not support_ v r

Multiplayer and co-op

Single-player

Languages

Full audio: English. Text only: French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Greek, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Romanian, Thai, Turkish, Finnish, Swedish.