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About the Game
Relive Half-Life
Black Mesa is the fan-made reimagining of Valve Software’s Half-Life.
Black Mesa: Definitive Edition
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. There has never been a better time to pick up the crowbar and play!
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!
Features
- A completely reimagined and refined single player campaign, including all new and expanded Xen levels
- 19 chapters of fighting through top-secret labs, running atop harsh desert landscapes, sneaking into abandoned railways, and leaping across dimensions
- Mind-Blowing graphics and effects, never before seen on the Source Engine
- Face off against an army of classic enemies, updated with new features and engaging AI
- Wield an arsenal of military hardware, scientific prototypes, and the iconic crowbar through incredibly detailed environments
- The all-new soundtrack and voice acting create a more immersive experience than ever before
- 50 Fun and challenging achievements
Multiplayer
Frag your friends across 10 iconic maps from the Half-Life universe, including:- Bounce
- Gasworks
- Stalkyard
- Undertow
- Crossfire
Workshop
Create your own mods, models, and maps with the Black Mesa Source SDK, then share it with the community on the Steam Workshop.
Steamworks
Collect the full set of trading cards, backgrounds, emoticons, and achievements! Featuring Steam Cloud, Steam Workshop, closed captions in multiple languages and full controller support.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, german, spanish - spain, finnish, norwegian, french, portuguese - portugal, russian, italian, czech, danish, dutch, hungarian, korean, polish, romanian, simplified chinese, swedish, traditional chinese, turkish, ukrainian, greek, japanese, portuguese - brazil, spanish - latin america, vietnamese, croatian, georgian, indonesian, lithuanian
Системные требования
Windows
- OS: Windows® 10 or Newer
- Processor: 2.6 Dual Core Processor or Greater
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2 GB Dedicated Video Card or Greater
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 20 GB available space
- OS: Windows® 10 or Newer
- Processor: 3.2 Quad Core Processor or Greater
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 4 GB Dedicated Video Card or Greater
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 20 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 14.0 or Greater
- Processor: 2.6 Dual Core Processor or Greater
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2 GB Dedicated Video Card or Greater
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 20 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Does not support the Nouveau display driver
- OS: Ubuntu 14.0 or Greater
- Processor: 3.2 Quad Core Processor or Greater
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: 3 GB Dedicated Video Card or Greater
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 20 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Does not support the Nouveau display driver
Отзывы пользователей
a fun game to play, but it does get repetitive so play through it in chunks
A great remake of the original Half-Life with a modern take on level design. Xen has been reworked so it's actually fun to play and not a chore, although it does overstay it's welcome for a bit too long. Can't wait to see the Blue Shift mod finished. That mod alone is worth paying for.
Loved the original Half Life so this is a must play specially with the updated graphics such and awesome game!
Seems like the best option to play HL1 aside from maybe the HL1 VR mod. But even then seeing all the slight changes & improvements the Crowbar team did with this remake really enhances the experience and makes a 25+ year old game feel modern. Probably the best remake on the market which is just so absurdly impressive from a team that started as a ragtag group of amateur modders.
Black Mesa was incredible. One of the best games released in recent memory. The team's true dedication and respect for the Half-Life universe shines though brilliantly in the finished product.
This is NOT a replacement for Half-Life. You should play that first. This is a version of Half-Life that is somehow more linear because a lot of the optional encounters were made to be required. I think the only upside this has to the original is the workshop support, otherwise it's just not nearly as good.
Now this is how u remake a game, its a perfect sidegrade that changes alot but keeps the original games vibe (except xen, xen is no longer poopoo)
This is my first experience with Half-Life and I gotta say, i really liked it. Because I hadn't played the original, I can't comment on the changes they've made here, especially Xen, but for what I experienced I thought it was very good. Despite it being a pretty long game for me (I'm not that good), the time I had with this game is worthwhile.
One of the best games I've ever played, and I've gamed a lot
This whole game is a cinematic FPS masterpiece
Get the Blue Shift and Opposing Force mods once done <3
This is an excellent remake I wouldn't recommend you play this instead of the original half life but definitely afterwards to get an appreciation on just how well they've done.
valve really let people put a FAN made remake of half-life on there store, that shows how goated valve is, some game studios wouldn't do that if there lives depended on it. w valve, w crowbar collective. go play this if your a fan of half-life but still play the original if your new to the series.
I remember years ago the anticipation for this game, and it blew my expectations away. I'm just now revisiting the game to replay it, and I just had to write a review. Highly recommend this game for Half Life fans, it's one of the best remakes ever made. 👍👍
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Finished all the HL series games starting with this one first. This game is not a direct remaster but an excellent remake that even portrays the story better than the original IMO. Breathes a lot of new life into the 20+ year old source engine which is super impressive too. Quite a cinematic experience.
If only valve would pick the series back up and release HL3/ HL2 EP3!!!!
The Overall Game design easy to get into and archaic in a good a way. The lack of objectives often led me to a confusion to what I am doing while travelling. This same confusion was missing when I was working on any puzzles which were very good and intuitive. Combat was relatively good, some weapons like shotgun, revolver and energy gun were really good both in how they felt to use and how useful they were. At the same time a lot of weapons felt has they were either redundant or some thing I would rarely use.
Levels like the Office Space & Surface Tension were great and I really enjoyed them. The only reason I marked it as 9 point as Interloper felt as unnecessarily long navigating through the factory other than that the game is a perfect 10 . Overall the game was a great and the best way to experience Half Life 1.
While writing this I have come to a realization I don't know how to write how I feel and probably don't know how to express my self. While I want this list to be objective but at the same time these were supposed to my thoughts and how felt about the games that I played but I feel empty. That is an introspection, I was not expecting when start this project this year.
Of course Half Life is a fantastic game and it looks amazing with the rework and it really is the ideal way to experience Half Life, so long as you are on Windows. On Linux the experience is extremely frustrating and riddled with problems. Most prominently there is a terrible memory leak that will crash the game at least once every 30-45 minutes if not more often. With 64gb of DDR4 RAM there is no reason I should be running out of memory on a refresh of a 25+ year old game. Besides that, the lighting is nonexistent if you try to run this game in native Linux. Can't see anything at all unless you run the game in Proton, and even then you still have to turn the brightness in the game all the way up, and apply a modifier to the launch settings to force a max brightness override for the flashlight, and even then the darker areas of the game will still be extremely difficult to see. Loading in to a new area comes with a 50-50 chance of crashing the game immediately. Dying comes with roughly 60% chance of crashing the game immediately. It makes it very difficult to enjoy playing the game when you have to spend an hour or two figuring out what Proton config is needed to run properly (for a game that's supposed to run native on Linux) and then try to power through the game having to restart the game and replay lost progress twice an hour. And you can barely see anything half the game. Searching for other people having similar issues shows lots of results going back years, along with multiple instances of other players and the devs reporting they have supposedly 'fixed' these issues, but evidently not because it's still barely playable in the year 2025 on Linux.
One of the best FPS games you can play today. Absolutely masterful remaster. And don't even get me started on last part - Xen. Whomever designed it deserves a medal!
Black Mesa is a faithful remake of the original Half-Life. Super well crafted. Obviously a lot of passion went into this. Personally I think this is a perfectly valid way of playing the first game. This game is like several games in one. Some of the mods are FANTASTIC. The Blue shift mod, though slightly more involved in installation, was expertly crafted, and could very well be sold as its own game. Most of the campaign mods are an absolute joy. I love seeing so much passion result in such a masterpiece.
Amazing Remake of a classic, i'd happily recommend anyone play this if they have a soft spot for the classic valve games. I'm particularly fond of the soundtrack for this game, Joel Neilson did an amazing job creating a fresh new OST for this project and it hits so incredibly hard at times. Everything in this game just feels like a breath of fresh air and the remake that the community deserved, if you want a genuinly good, modern experience of valve games with a good story and level design i'd highly recommend it. The only gripes i have are the physics designs in this game are either really good or really bad, like momentum, gravity and floor slipperyness not making sense. The achievements for carrying things through huge chunks of the game is also a pain too, everybody liked the hat gimmick but i don't like that they caught onto that and when the xen update came out decided to make 4-5 other versions of it.
8.5/10, one of valve's best games in my opinion
The original Half-Life was what got me into PC gaming all those years ago, and this game managed to bring back those memories in a completely new way. Some of the set pieces, I remember, and yet, the developers of this game managed to cram so many new experiences into this that adds so much more value and storytelling to the game. If you like/love half-life, I suggest playing this game.
There are some issues with the game; friendly AI is wonky at times, and there's a few bugs that I encountered. I got put into a situation where i had to noclip/godmode myself out of a situation because of how the game autosaved one time.
Despite that, though, this is a great rework of Half Life. I have not completed the original game, yet I have no desire to. This game was really fun, I'd recommend it at full price, even more-so if there's a Spring/Summer/whatever sale going on.
One of the greatest classics remakes of all time. I don't think I have words to describe how marvellous and atmospheric the mood and theme really is to make this one of the best games I've ever played.
Black Mesa is a faithfully modernized remake of a classic first-person shooter. While retaining the essence of the original, it enhances the original experience with improved visuals, smoother gameplay and refined mechanics.
The game features detailed environments, responsive combat and immersive sound design. Mod support enhances replayability with custom content and game settings.
With its polished presentation and commitment to quality, Black Mesa is a must-play for fans and newcomers alike.
I gave an evaluation
Rating: 9.5/10
Soup Emporium summed up this game nicely. Cheers to the volunteers who built it. The soundtrack is worth listening to on its own and the visual storytelling is great. My only bane is the damn ladders XD
El juego es espectacular, un sueño hecho realidad para cualquier fan de Half-Life, me ha encantado todo pero tiene un problema gigante con la linterna y es que no funciona, probé todas las posibles soluciones y sigue sin funcionar, no entiendo como se les pasó un error tan grande, tuve que pasarme muchos niveles a ciegas pero en fin, aún así es una obra maestra y me está gustando mucho.
I don't think I've played an action FPS that gives the feeling of raising stakes through an entire game anywhere near as well. Jaw dropping!
Great game, recommend to anyone who likes FPS games.Ive been playing Starfield for the last few months but been nowhere near it after getting Half Life 2 anniversary game and the Black Mesa remake for peanuts.
Bethesda - this is how a the FPS part of Starfield should have been - no repetition of locations, loot and enemies in exactly the same places.
very good remake its litterqly the same game but with very good graphics
With the exception of the Xen levels dragging out far to long, it's a great remake of a great classic game. It hits all the nostalgic notes.
It's an incredible achievement all around. They recreated the mood and vibe of Half Life, while adding in more character and depth. The environments make more sense, and connect to each other in a more coherent way, the introductions of enemies is much more artful, and the voice acting and dialogue is really well done which is so rare for community projects.
Half Life 1 may be a masterpiece of it's time and it's worth giving it a go, but this can easily stand in as a replacement as many of the original innovations of Half Life 1 are now commonplace in most shooters. The atmosphere and tone is so well realised that it feels as if the Half Life 2 developers made it themselves.
Possibly the best community made game in history, certainly the best community made mod in history.
Play it.
Really good re-creation of the original game, and much more enjoyable in my opinion
After 8 years collecting dust in my library, I finally managed to play this masterpiece.
While the first part of the game is a meticulously crafted remake of the original Half-Life, with the Xen chapter they truly made it their own game. Pushing the Source engine to its absolute limits, life on Xen has never been this beautiful. It brings some of the HL2 feeling to the original game and expands on the lore for a much more complete and fleshed-out end game experience. Finishing this game actually brings significance to G-Man's words and makes it feel like an actual achievement.
Just be aware that this game has some soul-rending completionist achievements on hand that make you question your life choices if you decide to get them The Real Way™ and some technical issues on Linux that are better documented on ProtonDB.
Though this didn't affect my enjoyment of the game and would still highly recommend it as a way to relive Half-Life in a modern way, without even speaking of the great Workshop additions people have come up with and multiplayer support this game brings to the table.
flashlight does not work at all and its really difficult to do the puzzles in dark areas especially at "power on" the flashlight only lights up props and npc's and does not light up the walls ceiling and floor at all.
Black Mesa is a fabulous mod which respectfully brings the original Half Life into the 21st Century. The recreation provides a faithful reinterpretation of the of the game with new level design, visuals and voice lines. worth a play for anyone who loves the original.
This. This is just amazing. I love this game. Half-Life was a very fun game and Black Mesa made it EVEN BETTER. The graphics are just great, especially in Xen. It was an amazing way to relive Half-Life, in this faithful and beautiful recreation.
I forgot how good this is. From its humble beginnings as a free HL2 mod made by fans, today Black Mesa executes at the AAA-level. Easily worth full price.
Black Mesa is really well made, the graphical upgrades are insane. However, for some reason, I don't find myself playing this very often.
I remember first playing half life, Its a good game, maybe even one of the best, and this is pure perfection, if anything this could live up to the hype of half life 3, but other than that I highly recommend it.
Game has a lighting bug which requires you to entire a code in the old Valve basic line-input language every time you want to play it. First you have to find out how to activate the console, then press ~ when the game starts to open it. Then enter two: "code_phrase_input #" command strings which you have to find on some other discussion group post just to get enough environmental lighting to be playable. Even when you do all that, the in-game flashlight is practically useless. Otherwise, the game runs like it would on a Pentium II or III computer graphics-wise. A big headache just to play Half-Life (essentially the first third is the same) with new level layouts.
I was honestly not expecting to dislike this as much as I did, as Half-Life is one of my favorite games of all time. I went into Black Mesa expecting just a nice graphical face lift, and instead experienced change after change that I feel genuinely fell short of the still unmatched experience that is Half-Life.
Movement and gunplay immediately felt off to me. While I understand the game does not run on the same engine as the original, the intrinsic feel of movement and weapon firing was something I didn't realize was so well done in Half-Life until playing Black Mesa. Weapons lack the punch and “character” that made them all so satisfying to use. This is made glaringly clear by the game's sound design, which is passable but outright pales in comparison to Half-Life 1.
Combat also feels strange. Enemy AI seems to always have perfect aim while moving, resulting in the player resorting to quick peeks from cover to preserve health and shields. This was super unfun compared to the ability to run-and-gun and think on the fly in the original. Combat itself felt like a puzzle in the original Half-Life, but it feels more like a generic shooter in Black Mesa.
While I found the soundtrack on its own to be well composed and enjoyable, it didn't fit the tone and mood of Half-Life at all. The industrial rock and techno edges are gone. Instead, more generic action/cinematic songs take its place. I'd argue that Half-Life's soundtrack is vital to setting its tone, so this was a real sore spot for me. I get that they most likely couldn't just re-use the same OST, but it felt like there wasn't any significant attempt to recreate that industrial sound that permeates the cold, chromatic halls of the Black Mesa facility.
As many others have noted, Xen is a real slog. I enjoyed how it started and appreciated it's differences in level design, but I didn't care for the more Avatar-esque interpretation of the border world. The original Xen had an almost HR Giger feel to it that, like the tone of the OST, was completely stripped away. The second to last chapter falls apart into the most mind numbingly rudimentary “final level,” which grossly overstays its welcome and almost makes you forget what game you're playing. The long-winded and bloated design choices are baffling here, especially considering the fact that On A Rail was totally gutted for pacing reasons, apparently. While Xen in the original was ultimately nothing to write home about, it served its purpose succinctly and still capped off the game neatly and without making me feel utterly checked out and exhausted.
Black Mesa was ultimately a very odd game for me. It ended up in a sort of no man's land, where it simultaneously tried to stay true to the source material while also trying to dramatically change things in order to differentiate itself from its source material. The result is a game that, while STILL an impressive project despite my dislike for many of its elements, could never escape comparisons to Half-Life, and the constant feeling that this remake didn't offer an experience anywhere near improved over the original.
I know I'm being really critical here, but I don't think Black Mesa is a terrible game nor do I think it's not worth experiencing. What I am saying is that Black Mesa should not be considered a replacement for the original Half-Life 1 in any way, shape, or form. It is best played at some point after completing the original and its subsequent expansions (well, at least just Opposing Force). But as it stands, the best way to experience Half-Life is still, unquestionably, by playing Half-Life.
Intense game-play at times, but overall very enjoyable. I loved the story aspects and the in-game music.
Black Mesa is an incredible remake that beautifully reimagines the classic Half-Life. With stunning visuals, refined gameplay, and an unforgettable atmosphere, it’s a true labor of love that honors the original while improving upon it in every way. A must-play for both fans and newcomers
A faithful remake of the original in a modern skin. Enough changes and added dialogue that it feels like a new game in its entirety. The Black Mesa portion of the game is a smooth ride. While the Xen portion does fix some of the old problems of Half-Life it does create some new ones which can leave one annoyed, but overall a positive experience.
Fantastic remake of the original HL. Updated graphics and the atmosphere made me even take some screenshots - it's really beautiful. As for gameplay: Black Mesa will take you much more time compared to the original part. Some chapters felt completely different, in a good sense. I'd recommend playing HL 1 first, then this remake. But, if you just can't tolerate old graphics and mechanics, feel free playing Black Mesa right away.
Its worth playing when on sale for sure, the last 30%'s quality falls off a cliff though, its the same endless puzzles over and over and over.
It goes without saying, but this is an absolutely outstanding fan-made remaster.
Black Mesa is the definitive way to play Half-Life 1 in 2025. It's gorguos and fun to play. And the Xen levels are to absoluotely die for.
Fun remake for someone who has never played the half-life games before.
This and the system shock 2 remake are callbacks to a generation of games that had the sole purpose of providing something unique and fun, and you can really feel the love that the devs put into the game.
Also made me feel dumb, but in a good way. In a lot of sections you actually have to look around the environment for what to do next, and being so used to games that blast exactly where to go next directly into your pov, it was refreshing to actually stop and backtrack what I missed, and more rewarding to successfully complete a level.
The perfect remake of a game does not exist... oh wait.
Yes it does, and this is IT. Made by fans, with Valve's blessing. Masterpiece.
The End
Spent more than 5 hours alone in just the chapter interloper while carrying a purple hat and a pizza, to later find out the game is not completable unless you're mentally insane and have the patience to get what feels like a 0.1% RNG chance on jumping pads.
I rate the game as a solid 9 out of 10, would never do it again.
This is an excellent refresh of the original game., akin to a remake of a movie rather than a simple remastering as was done for Half-Life: Source. In addition to the greatly enhanced visuals & audio, some new interaction methods, weapons & objects have been added. You'll recognise most of the locations from the original but there are new scenes and different puzzles & solutions in places along with back-ported references to Half-Life 2. Well worth the modest price for the upgrade especially considering the amount of work that must have gone into it. I'm looking forward to the Blue Shift makeover and anything else The Crowbar Collective bring us.
Black Mesa Review: "Half-Life, but With a Glow-Up"
Black Mesa is what happens when fans love a game so much, they rebuild it better than ever. It’s Half-Life with modern graphics, improved gameplay, and the same headcrab-induced panic attacks.
Gordon Freeman is back, swinging crowbars, solving physics puzzles, and causing accidental science disasters. The updated visuals make every corridor of the Black Mesa facility look incredible—until it's smeared with alien guts.
And Xen? They actually made it fun this time.
10/10—would accidentally open a portal to an alien world again.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Crowbar Collective |
| Платформы | Windows, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 09.03.2025 |
| Metacritic | 84 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 95% положительных (61578) |