Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
At $7.99. It has been as low as $0.71.
- Story and characters: 48 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 7 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews
Based on 907 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
You should read The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx if you have any interest in video game development, even if you couldn't care less about the HL series or VR headsets or anything like that, because it isn't really a story about Half-Life: Alyx.
The presentation is clean and cinematic, with smooth transitions between chapters, soft ambient music, and subtle animation effects that give the impression of being inside a digital museum curated with extraordinary care.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 4 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $7.99. The lowest we've tracked is $0.71.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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