Yes, worth buying.
At $59.99. It has been as low as $14.99.
- Story and characters: 113 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 65 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 54 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Crashes: 20 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Difficulty: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 105k player reviews · updated 4 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Played on Meta Quest 3 with Virtual Desktop [100% completed]
The gunplay is great, Alyx is an enjoyably character to play as, the physics systems and your ability to interact with objects is incredible, the graphics look amazing (even as seen through my Quest 2 headset), and the audio is great.
Not sure if it is quite the best game ever made as I do have gameplay quibbles but it's still excellent and I'll be thinking about it for a long time.
I wanted to keep the framerate high to make VR comfortable.
AND THE OPTIMIZATION???
Very good voice acting, incredible surround tension-building music, thriller-like technics to keep you on your toes.
+1 more the community rallied around
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Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $59.99. The lowest we've tracked is $14.99.
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