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
- Absolute Redemption
- Action Half-life
- Afraid of Monsters: Directors Cut
- Azure Sheep
- Battle Grounds
- Brutal Half Life (Beta 0.1, 0.2)
- Counter-Strike (Turned into retail games developed by Valve)
- Black Ops (Also ported to Sega Dreamcast)
- Blue Shift: Reassignment
- Cat-Life
- Christmas Life
- Crack-Life
- Crazy Black Messa - Still under development
- Cry Of Fear
- Day of Defeat (Turned into retail games developed by Valve)
- Deliverance
- Firearms
- Go-Mod
- Half-Life: Absolute Zero
- Half-Life Alpha in GoldSrc
- Half-Life: Before
- Half-Life: Critical Mass
- Half-Life: Echoes
- Half-Life: Emission
- Half-Life: Preliminary
- Half-Life Rally
- Half-Life: Visitors
- Half-Life Zero
- Half-Life: Zombie Edition
- Half-Quake Trilogy
- Half-Rats: A Fever Dream
- Half-Rats: Parasomnia
- Hazardous Course 2
- Headcrab Frenzy!
- Life's End
- Natural Selection
- Operation Nova
- PARANOIA (Also ported to Sega Dreamcast)
- Peaces Like Us
- Pirates, Vikings and Knights
- Poke646
- Point of View
- Prison
- Ricochet (Turned into a retail game developed by Valve)
- Rocket Crowbar 2
- Sandpit
- Scientist Slaughterhouse
- SHλFT (Cancelled)
- 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 Ship (Turned into a retail game)
- The Specialists
- They Hunger (Also ported to Sega Dreamcast)
- USS Darkstar (Also ported to Sega Dreamcast)
- Wanted
Source
- 1187
- Age of Chivalry
- Awakening
- Battle Grounds 2
- Black Mesa (Turned into a retail game)
- Black Mesa: Azure Sheep
- Causality Effect
- City 14
- City17: Episode 1 Cancelled
- City 7: Toronto Conflict
- Coastline to Atmosphere
- Combine Destiny
- DayHard
- Dear Esther (Turned into a retail game)
- Dino D-Day (Turned into a retail game)
- D.I.P.R.I.P.
- Dystopia
- Entropy: Zero
- Entropy: Zero 2
- FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod
- G String
- Garry's Mod (Turned into a retail game)
- Eclipse
- Eternal Silence
- Flipside
- GoldenEye: Source
- Gordon Freakman
- Guard Duty
- Half-Life: Prospekt
- Half-Life 2: Aftermath
- Half Life 2: Dawn
- Half-Life 2: Capture the Flag
- Half-Life 2: Short Stories: Human Error
- Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat
- Lambda Wars
- Lambda Prospekt
- Lost Squad
- MINERVA
- Missing Information
- Mission Improbable
- Mistake of Pythagoras
- NeoTokyo
- Nightmare House 2
- No More Room in Hell
- Obsidian Conflict
- Operation Black Mesa
- Opposing Force 2
- Perfect Dark: Source
- Pirates, Vikings and Knights II
- Peer Review
- Portal: Prelude
- Portal Stories: Mel
- Portal: The Flash Version MapPack
- Riot Act
- Tier 3 (Portal)
- The Stanley Parable (Turned into a retail game)
- Blue Portals
- Gamma Energy
- Raindrop
- Raising the Beta
- The Ravenholm series
- Research and Development
- Rock 24
- Silent Escape
- SMOD
- SMOD: Tactical
- SourceForts
- Synergy
- Star Trek: Enterprise - Temporal Cold War
- The Citizen & The Citizen Returns
- The Stargate Mod
- Titan: XCIX
- Underhell
- Water
- Weekday Warrior
- Zeno Clash (Originally planned as a mod, then made as a retail game)
- Zombie Master
- Zombie Panic! Source
- Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative
External links
Mod on Wikipedia- Half-Life 2 mods
- GameBanana - the Game Customization Community
- Interlopers.net - Half-Life 2 News & Tutorials
- Mod DB - Mod database
- RunThinkShootLive - mods for both GoldSrc and Source engines
- SourceModding - a collection of tutorials and tools for modding
- Valve Developer Community - official knowledge base for developers
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