Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
Skip · Shooter · 2006
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $9.99. Price from Oct 21.
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.34/hr
- Reviews▼
- 76% of 5,628
- Genre rank
- Top 55% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Recent reviews trending up: 85% over the last 30 days against 76% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.3h
- To 100%
- 3.3h 1.4x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 26 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 June 2018
- Sale every
- 88d last June 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 42 now
- Recent reviews
- 85% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 43% 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.
Among the games that feel like it, Half-Life ($9.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Half-Life: Source ($9.99, scores 25).
More about Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
Players rate it 76 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 85 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. 2 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 2,782 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 63 percent of everything written about it.
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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
About the game
Half-Life Deathmatch: Source is a recreation of the first multiplayer game set in the Half-Life universe. Features all the classic weapons and most-played maps, now running on the Source engine.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Half-Life Deathmatch: Source scores 37/100 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/360/half-life-deathmatch-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 Nov 1, price as of Oct 21. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.