An in-game screenshot from Cry Of Fear, one of the newest released Half-Life Mods from 2012.
In-game screenshot of Sven Co-op, one of the oldest Half-Life mods to be still in development.
In-game screenshot of They Hunger.
In-game screenshot of Black Mesa, a total conversion of Half-Life to the Source engine.
In-game screenshot of Dystopia.
The Garry's Mod menu.
HD Alyx based on Brazilian model Adriana Lima in FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod, Version 8.
The Half-Life series spawned countless mods, among which many that became highly popular in the Half-Life gaming community. Some original mods, such as Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Day of Defeat, Ricochet, The Ship and Alien Swarm (originally a mod for Unreal Tournament 2004) have been "adopted" by Valve and made into commercial games. However some mods such as Garry's Mod having been turned into commercial games remain independent. Some mods are also based on cut content, featured in the released files for Half-Life, and in the leaked files for Half-Life 2.
Some of these mods include minor or major alterations to the original game, others consist in a total conversion, i.e. made from scratch, only using the existing engine, models, sounds, textures, etc. The non-commercial mods can be downloaded for free, as they are not licensing the engine.
Notable mods[]
The list is incomplete; feel free to complete it with other notable mods.
GoldSrc[]
Launched 1998 with the seminal Half-Life. Other popular modded games: Half-Life: Opposing Force, Counter-Strike. 120+ mods.
- Absolute Redemption
- Action Half-life
- Afraid of Monsters: Director's Cut
- Afraid of Monsters DC - Remod (Sub-mod for AoMDC)
- Arctic Incident
- AvsM 2: Project XEN
- Azure Sheep
- Battle Grounds
- Black Mesa: Classic
- Black Ops (Also ported to Sega Dreamcast)
- Bleach: Zanpakutou Senshi
- Blue Shift Coop
- Christmas Life
- Cleaners Adventures
- Cold Ice
- Condition Zero: Dark Winter (still under development)
- Counter-Strike (Turned into retail games developed by Valve)
- Counter-Strike: Zero Hour (Recreation of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes)
- Crack-Life
- Cry Of Fear
- Day of Defeat (Turned into retail games developed by Valve)
- Decay: Singularity (Singleplayer conversion of Half-Life: Decay)
- Deliverance
- Delta Particles (Ex-Half-Life: Delta)
- Front Line Force
- G-man invasion
- Go-Mod
- Half-Life: Absolute Zero
- Half-life Alpha (Archive of Half-Life Alpha)
- Half-Life Alpha in GoldSrc
- Half-Life: Anti-Climax
- Half-Life: Before
- Half-Life: Black Guard
- Half-Life: Critical Mass
- Half-Life: Decay (Port of Half-Life: Decay)
- Half-Life: Decay v1.02 (Patch)
- Half-Life Decay: Solo Mission (Port of Half-Life: Decay) (still under development)
- Half-Life: Echoes
- Half-Life: Emission (still under development)
- Half-Life: Enriched (Enhanced rework of Half-Life) (still under development)
- Half-Life: Evacuation Point
- Half-Life: Expanded Arsenal (Models pack)
- Half-Life: Extended (still under development)
- Half-Life Featureful (for developers)
- Half-Life: Field Intensity
- Half-Life: Hostile Takeover (remake, still under development)
- Half-Life: Induction
- Half-Life: Insecure
- Half-Life Invasion
- Half-Life Sudden Invasion (Update)
- Half-Life: Lost White (still under development)
- Half-Life: MMod
- HALF-LIFE: Operation Rosenberg
- HALF-LIFE: Escape from Area 99 (Sequel to Operation Rosenberg)
- HALF-LIFE: Operation Rift (Sequel to Operation Rosenberg)
- HALF-LIFE: Dark Future (Sequel to Operation Rift)
- Half-Life: Peaces Like Us
- Half-Life: Preliminary
- Half-Life Rally
- Half-Life: Recon (still under development)
- Half-Life: ReSrced (HD Graphics Mod)
- Half Life Shetmod
- Half-Life: The Infected
- Half-Life: Tyrian (Based on Tyrian 2000)
- Half-Life Vengeance
- Rebellion (Sequel to Vengeance)
- Half-Life: Visitors
- Half-Life: Weapon Edition
- Half-Life Zero
- Half-Life: Zombie Edition
- Half-Quake Trilogy
- Half-Rats: A Fever Dream
- Half-Rats: Parasomnia
- Half-Rats: Redridge
- Hazardous Course 2
- Headcrab Frenzy!
- Heart of Evil
- Heart of Evil: Napalm Edition (Remake)
- Hour-Glass
- Life's End
- More Hunger (still under development)
- Natural Selection
- Operation: Nova (Old link)
- Opposing Force Beta Mod: Early Concepts
- PARANOIA (Also ported to Sega Dreamcast)
- Pirates, Vikings and Knights
- Poke646
- Poke646: Anniversary Edition (Combo of Poke646 & Poke646: Vendetta)
- Point of View
- Prison
- Radical Problems
- Ricochet (Turned into a retail game developed by Valve)
- Rocket Crowbar 2
- Sandbot (Bot mod)
- Sandpit
- Scientist Slaughterhouse
- SHλFT (Cancelled)
- SIGNAL LOST (Reimagining of Half-Life: Uplink) (still under development)
- Solitary Echoes
- SSH: Mod Messup #1: WTF
- Sven Co-op (Turned into a retail game)
- Sweet Half-Life
- Team Fortress (Turned into retail games developed by Valve)
- The Core
- The Gate
- The Gate - Remod (Sub-mod for The Gate)
- The Ship (Turned into a retail game)
- The Specialists
- The Trenches
- The Unknown Menace
- The Unknown Menace - Remod (Enhancement sub-mod)
- The Wastes (Ex-Wasteland Half-Life) (Turned into a retail game)
- They Hunger (Also ported to Sega Dreamcast)
- Timeline trilogy
- The Timeline Trilogy - Remod (Enhancement sub-mod)
- Times of Troubles
- TimeWarp (still under development)
- Tyrian: Ground Assault
- USS Darkstar (Also ported to Sega Dreamcast)
- Wanted! The Western Mod (Aka. WantedHL)
- Xash3D: Ray Traced (Graphical enhancement)
- XDM
- Xeno Project I & II
- Zombie Panic!
Source[]
Launched 2004 with the revelatory Half-Life 2. Other popular modded games: Counter-Strike: Source, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, Garry's Mod, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Alien Swarm, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Black Mesa. 90+ mods.
- 1187
- Age of Chivalry
- Amalgam
- Antenna (still under development)
- Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative
- Awakening
- Axon Pariah (Sequel to Entropy: Zero 2) (still under development)
- Battle Grounds 2
- Black Mesa (Turned into a retail game)
- Black Mesa: Azure Sheep (Remake of Azure Sheep)
- Black Mesa: Black Ops (Not a remake of Half-Life: Black Ops)
- Black Mesa: Blue Shift (Remake of Half-Life: Blue Shift)
- Black Mesa: Hazard Course (Recreation of Half-Life's tutorial)
- Black Mesa: Hazard Сourse After Disaster
- Black Mesa: Improved Xen
- Black Mesa: Military
- Blasted Lands
- Blasted Lands 2 (Sequel to Blasted Lands mod) (still under development)
- Blue Portals
- BMS Classic
- BrainBread 2
- Causality Effect
- City 14
- City 17: Episode 1 (Cancelled)
- City 7: Toronto Conflict
- Coastline to Atmosphere
- Combine Destiny
- DangerousWorld
- Dark Messiah Map Extended
- Day of Defeat: Source - High Definition Pack (Enhancement mod)
- DayHard
- Dear Esther (Turned into a retail game)
- Dino D-Day (Turned into a retail game)
- D.I.P.R.I.P.
- Dystopia
- Eclipse (Homepage is down)
- Empires
- Entropy: Zero
- Entropy: Zero 2 (Sequel to Entropy: Zero)
- Entropy: Zero 2 - Progenitors (still under development)
- Entropy: Zero - Uprising (still under development)
- Eternal Silence
- Evacuation
- FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod
- Fistful of Frags
- Flipside
- Further Data (Remake of Half-Life: Uplink)
- G String
- Gamma Energy (Official website is down)
- Garry's Mod (Turned into a retail game)
- GoldenEye: Source
- Gordon Freakman
- Guard Duty (Remake of Half-Life: Blue Shift)
- Half-Life: Through The City
- Half-Life 2: MMod
- Half-Life: Prospekt (Turned into a retail game)
- Half-Life 2: Aftermath
- Half Life 2: Dawn
- Half-Life 2: Capture the Flag
- Half-Life 2: Short Stories: Human Error
- Half-Life 2: VR Mod
- Half-Life 2: VR Mod - Episode One
- Half-Life 2: VR Mod - Episode Two
- Heart of Evil: Source (Port)
- Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat (Homepage expired)
- Lambda Wars (Homepage is down)
- Lambda Prospekt
- Lost and Damned
- Lost Squad
- Lost Under The Snow
- Mapbase (for developers)
- Mesa - Fallback
- Mind Escape (story-related to Silent Escape and Snowdrop Escape)
- MINERVA
- Missing Information (Based on Half-Life 2 Beta)
- Mission Improbable
- Mistake of Pythagoras
- Modding Bleeds
- NeoTokyo
- Nightmare House
- Nightmare House 2 (Sequel. Includes original mod.)
- No More Room in Hell
- Obsidian Conflict
- Operation Black Mesa (Remake of Half-Life: Opposing Force)
- Peer Review (Reboot of Half-Life: Decay)
- Perfect Dark: Source
- Pirates, Vikings and Knights II (Sequel to Pirates, Vikings, and Knights)
- Portal: Ambition (still under development)
- Portal: Canonical Base of ℝxℝxℝ
- Portal: Crumbs Of Truth (Captioned file)
- Portal: Prelude
- Portal: The Flash Version MapPack
- Portal Stories: Mel
- Precursor
- Raindrop
- Raising the Bar: Redux (Based on Half-Life 2 Beta)
- Raising the Beta
- The Ravenholm series
- Reaction
- Research and Development
- Resident Evil 2: Source
- Riot Act
- Rock 24
- Rocket Crowbar HL2 (Sequel to Rocket Crowbar 2 mod)
- Screaming Steel: 1914-1918 (Ex-WW1: Source. Sequel to The Trenches mod.)
- Sebastian
- Silent Escape: Induction (frozen since 2021)
- SMOD
- SMOD: Tactical
- Snowdrop Escape (story-related to Silent Escape and Mind Escape)
- SourceForts (Homepage is down)
- SourceWorld (still under development)
- Southernmost Combine
- Star Trek: Enterprise - Temporal Cold War
- Stojkeholm
- Swelter
- Synergy
- Searching Lamarr (developing)
- The Burton Equation
- The Citizen & The Citizen Returns
- The Great Class Dash
- The Masked Prisoner
- The Raphael Parable: WHY Edition
- The Stanley Parable (Turned into a retail game)
- The Stargate Mod
- Thunder's Leaves]
- Tier 3 (Portal. Cancelled.)
- Titan: XCIX
- Underhell
- Urban Chaos (still under development)
- Water
- Weekday Warrior
- Wivenhoe: The Fall of Ravenholm
- Zeno Clash (Originally planned as a mod, then made as a retail game)
- Zombie Master (Homepage is down)
- Zombie Panic! Source (Sequel to Zombie Panic!)
See also[]
- Half-Life 2 Beta (Mods based on the unreleased Half-Life 2 Beta work)
- Half-Life 2: Episode Three (Mods/projects based on the cancelled Half-Life 2: Episode Three game)
External links[]
Mod on Wikipedia- List of GoldSrc mods on Wikipedia
- List of Source mods on Wikipedia
- Half-Life 2 mods
- GameBanana - the Game Customization Community
- Interlopers.net - Half-Life 2 News & Tutorials
- Mod DB - Mod database
- TheUnbeholden's archive on Mod DB -Archival of hundreds of mods from other difficult, unreliable places like Steam Community on Mod DB
- AdamDenton1's archive on Mod DB - Archival of under 30 old mods from before 2010 on Mod DB
- Mesa Preta Dubs' mods on Mod DB - Brazilian-Portuguese audio/voiceover dubs for various Half-Life games
- ZikShadow's Remods on Mod DB - Fachriadi's ('ZikShadow') page has many Remods for Half-Life series mods
- RunThinkShootLive - mods for both GoldSrc and Source engines (Ex-PlanetPhillip.Com in 1998 to Jan 2015)
- SourceModding - a collection of tutorials and tools for modding
- Valve Developer Community - official knowledge base for developers
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