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Black Mesa: Definitive Edition (PC/Steam Digital Download)

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Steam has Black Mesa: Definitive Edition (PC/Steam Digital Download) on sale for $1.99.
  • Note: Steam account and client application required to purchase/play this title (free to register).
Thanks to Deal Hunter slickdewmaster for finding this deal.

About this Game:
  • Compatible with Steam Deck.
  • Black Mesa is the fan-made reimagining of Valve Software's Half-Life.
  • Update 1.5 brings together all the improvements to graphics and gameplay across 15 years of development to create the final version of Black Mesa.
  • Single Player Campaign: You are Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist at the Black Mesa Research Facility. When a routine experiment goes horribly wrong, you must fight your way through an interdimensional alien invasion, and a bloodthirsty military clean-up crew in order to save the science team... and the world!

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Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This is $2 less than previous Frontpage deal from July 2024
    • Offer/pricing valid through May 19, 2025
  • About Steam:
    • Steam is the world's largest digital distribution platform for computer games and is owned/operated by Valve Corporation (the developers behind several classic video games including Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, Left 4 Dead, Dota 2 & more).

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Steam has Black Mesa: Definitive Edition (PC/Steam Digital Download) on sale for $1.99.
  • Note: Steam account and client application required to purchase/play this title (free to register).
Thanks to Deal Hunter slickdewmaster for finding this deal.

About this Game:
  • Compatible with Steam Deck.
  • Black Mesa is the fan-made reimagining of Valve Software's Half-Life.
  • Update 1.5 brings together all the improvements to graphics and gameplay across 15 years of development to create the final version of Black Mesa.
  • Single Player Campaign: You are Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist at the Black Mesa Research Facility. When a routine experiment goes horribly wrong, you must fight your way through an interdimensional alien invasion, and a bloodthirsty military clean-up crew in order to save the science team... and the world!

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This is $2 less than previous Frontpage deal from July 2024
    • Offer/pricing valid through May 19, 2025
  • About Steam:
    • Steam is the world's largest digital distribution platform for computer games and is owned/operated by Valve Corporation (the developers behind several classic video games including Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, Left 4 Dead, Dota 2 & more).

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For the people who aren't buying this game like a stock market listing: it's a great remake of the original HL1 that started as a fan made project but got the green light from valve. It's a good replay for those who grew up playing the original as well as a great first try for those who want a classic style fps campaign from the early 2000s.

It's also a good gift for anyone who has played any valve properties but hadn't tried the original half life series

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I shouldn't have bought this for $5 back in 2022... Haven't even played it.

The only reason I bought it was because of the Slickdealers saying how good of a game and price it was and that it wouldn't go any lower.
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Quote from BlueRaccoon1085 :
I shouldn't have bought this for $5 back in 2022... Haven't even played it. The only reason I bought it was because of the Slickdealers saying how good of a game and price it was and that it wouldn't go any lower.
They probably figured it was going to maintain price like Garry's Mod. Damn thing is still $10 19-years later!
Black Mesa is awesome BTW. You are somehow playing a brand new game but completely the same game as the OG at the same time. Witchcraft.
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Quote from BlueRaccoon1085 :
I shouldn't have bought this for $5 back in 2022... Haven't even played it.

The only reason I bought it was because of the Slickdealers saying how good of a game and price it was and that it wouldn't go any lower.

Yep, $4.99 on Dec 24, 2021 and still have not played game number 562 in my Steam Backlog (TM). LMAO.


Just pouring money down the drain.
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For the people who aren't buying this game like a stock market listing: it's a great remake of the original HL1 that started as a fan made project but got the green light from valve. It's a good replay for those who grew up playing the original as well as a great first try for those who want a classic style fps campaign from the early 2000s.

It's also a good gift for anyone who has played any valve properties but hadn't tried the original half life series
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zelikris
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It's a great game. The level design and environmental story telling is top tier
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There are sooooooo many rumors that Steam is releasing a new Half Life game this year.
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Bought it thanks!

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Quote from Eragorn :
There are sooooooo many rumors that Steam is releasing a new Half Life game this year.
Now THAT is something I would buy in an instant!
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I'm confused when people say this is a HL remake.. like, it's the same game but remastered? Or it's a new game but based on the same engine, sounds, etc.?
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Quote from ZV3 :
Now THAT is something I would buy in an instant!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/co..._entirety/

https://www.engadget.com/gaming/h...30499.html
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Quote from Eragorn :
There are sooooooo many rumors that Steam is releasing a new Half Life game this year.

Yeah, there are reports on the various gaming news sites about HL3 being fully playable end-to-end
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Quote from brad_headley :
I'm confused when people say this is a HL remake.. like, it's the same game but remastered? Or it's a new game but based on the same engine, sounds, etc.?
According to Reddit...
"Black Mesa is a third-party remake of Half Life made in the Source Engine, not made by Valve. It is a completely different game from Half Life: Source, which can be mostly described as "HL1 with Source physics" with some minor improvements. Black Mesa was remade from the ground up, and more-or-less intended to feel like what HL1 would be like if it was made in a more modern engine."
https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife...lack_mesa/

Wiki says while most of the general design and progress through the game levels remains the same as Half-Life, the largest change in Black Mesa is the reworking of the game's final chapter, Xen, which was generally considered the weakest part of the original game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bla...video_game)
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Quote from brad_headley :
I'm confused when people say this is a HL remake.. like, it's the same game but remastered? Or it's a new game but based on the same engine, sounds, etc.?
Like Eragorn stated it is a fan made remake.

And another example of why Valve > Nintendo. Nintendo would have sued the remake's devs out of the solar system while Valve wholeheartedly supported the fan project.
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Quote from BlueRaccoon1085 :
I shouldn't have bought this for $5 back in 2022... Haven't even played it.

The only reason I bought it was because of the Slickdealers saying how good of a game and price it was and that it wouldn't go any lower.
Don't feel bad about supporting a good game/developer. I bought Black Mesa on Steam in 2018, even though I'd already downloaded and played in it 2012, back when it was completely free! The version back then didn't include Xen, and as I recall, the Xen chapters weren't completed until 2021.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDquIZPXxWA

good review. its been forever since i played this. dont mind paying 2 bucks

apparently works horrible on steam deck tho

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