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2020 · VR · FPS · Story Rich

How long isHalf-Life: Alyx?

by Valve

11 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 5 hours and 17 hours

Half-Life: Alyx among the 563 first-person shooters here

The whole tier list
SPlayed tier

#44

of 563

ranked by owners here who played past two hours

65%
got past 2 hours
+25 on the kind's 40%
18%
past 20 hours
+6 on the kind's 12%
82%
launched it
+24 on the kind's 58%
239
libraries own it
1 in 10 of the 2,453 read here
Half-Life: Alyx ↓
#1 Cyberpunk 2077#563
18% of its owners here never launched it. More or fewer than the next game?Play higher or lower

Does Half-Life: Alyx hold up?

Holds steady

Holds up seal

At least 97% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 200 hours played.

Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.

Do the first two hours of Half-Life: Alyx tell you?

In the first two hours93%recommend it

After that99%recommend it

2 in 100 said no: 1 after the window had closed, 1 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 11 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 5 hours and 17 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 106,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It holds steady: between 98% and 99% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.

8% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 93% of those recommend it. After the window, 99% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 71% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 5 hours in.

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When would you get there?

11days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 11 hours on Tuesday, November 24.

Half of its reviewers had played between 5 and 17 hours: Nov 18 to Nov 30 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in Half-Life: Alyx?

The filter

Xen Garden

14 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Zombie with a Shotgun and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Hit and RunBreak out of the Combine prisoner transport vehicle.−1387% hold it
  3. Quaranta GiorniEnter the Quarantine Zone.−1176% hold it
  4. Zombie with a ShotgunCollect the shotgun.−1462% hold it
  5. Xen GardenEnter the explosive Xen infestation.Filtered −1448% hold it
  6. Checking InReach the Northern Star.−642% hold it
  7. Heart-Breaker HotelGet creative turning the power back on.−240% hold it
  8. UnbondedCollect the SMG.−436% hold it
  9. Cord-CutterShut down the substation.−234% hold it
  10. Blast From the PastDefuse a roomful of explosive barrels.−430% hold it
  11. Sea LevelReach the aquatic exhibits.−426% hold it
  12. ConsequencesMake your choice.−224% hold it
How this is counted

87% of the players who launched Half-Life: Alyx hold Hit and Run, its first story achievement on Steam, and 24% hold Consequences, its last. The steepest drop comes between Zombie with a Shotgun (62%) and Xen Garden (48%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Where did you leave it?

Stopped part way? Your Steam profile brings back the story so far, read aloud, up to the last story achievement you hold. Nothing past it.

No Steam, or played it elsewhere?

Is Half-Life: Alyx worth it?

Is Half-Life: Alyx worth it? Mostly.

  • Pricey per hour

    A typical first-person shooter gives 2× the hours for the money

  • Loved

    99% recommend it after the refund windowmost first-person shooters: 89%

  • Gets played

    82% of owners here have played itmost first-person shooters: 63%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $59.99, the typical player's 11 hours come to $5.45 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 99% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $5.45 an hour, Half-Life: Alyx costs more per hour than 549 of 652 first-person shooters here: the typical one of 652 first-person shooters here charges $2.73.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (first-person shooters) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Where can I play Half-Life: Alyx today?

On SteamVR and PC

Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.

  1. todaySteamVR2020
  2. todayPC2020
How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Half-Life: Alyx came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.

Would you like Half-Life: Alyx?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Half-Life: Alyx, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Half-Life: Alyx would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

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Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

What did people here do with Half-Life: Alyx?

  • 1 in 14

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

Games like Half-Life: Alyx

  1. 1

    BONEWORKS

    Half-Life: Alyx, but physics-driven, and full of puzzles

    Loved · 92%Games like BONEWORKS

  2. 2

    The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

    Half-Life: Alyx, but a survival horror game, and more divisive

    Liked · 86%Games like The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

  3. 3

    Prey

    Half-Life: Alyx, but an immersive sim, and twice the hours

    Loved · 91%Games like Prey

  4. 4

    Into the Radius VR

    Half-Life: Alyx, but a survival game, and open world

    Loved · 93%Games like Into the Radius VR

  5. 5

    Arizona Sunshine VR Legacy

    Half-Life: Alyx, but about survival, and half the hours

    Mixed · 79%Games like Arizona Sunshine VR Legacy

  6. 6

    Budget Cuts

    Half-Life: Alyx, but a stealth game, and with robots

    Liked · 80%Games like Budget Cuts

All 30 games like Half-Life: Alyx, and which you already own
How this is counted

Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Half-Life: Alyx: a kind of game it is that Half-Life: Alyx is not, a feature its tags carry that Half-Life: Alyx's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.

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