Half-Life: Source
Skip · Shooter · 2004
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $9.99. Price from Oct 21.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.90/hr
- Reviews▼
- 69% of 16,761
- Genre rank
- Top 69% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Recent reviews trending down: 59% over the last 30 days against 69% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 11.1h
- To 100%
- 14.1h 1.3x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 26 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 June 2018
- Sale every
- 88d last July 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 13 now
- Recent reviews
- 59% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 25% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
June 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Across all 26 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 13 weeks apart.
It is less well reviewed than 75 percent of its genre. Half-Life ($9.99, scores 95) outscores it, and so does Half-Life 2 ($9.99, scores 98). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Half-Life: Source
Players rate it 69 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 59 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 3 of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 3,882 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
You can't buy this game directly. You either have to get a bundle with Deathmatch or buy another pack which contains it, such as the Valve Complete Pack. And for good reason too: the game is a buggy mess which I could only get through with mods. Your money is better spent on Half-Life (which got an anniversary update) or Black Mesa (a retelling of the story which was built specifically to run on Source). The only...
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About the game
Winner of over 50 Game of the Year awards, Half-Life set new standards for action games when it was released in 1998. Half-Life: Source is a digitally remastered version of the critically acclaimed and best selling PC game, enhanced via Source technology to include physics simulation, enhanced effects, and more.
Minimum specs
Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Half-Life: Source scores 25/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 21. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/280/half-life-sourceReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Oct 21. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.