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Half-Life 2

1998. HALF-LIFE sends a shock through the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling. Valve's debut title wins more than 50 game-of-the-year awards on its way to being named "Best PC Game Ever" by PC Gamer, and launches a franchise with more than eight million retail units sold worldwide.
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Developer: Valve Publisher: Valve
Genre: Action
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Swedish, Thai
Tags: FPS (4087), Action (2923), Sci-fi (2568), Classic (2344), Singleplayer (2288), Story Rich (1989), Shooter (1791), First-Person (1677), Adventure (1429), Dystopian (1285), Atmospheric (1183), Zombies (1098), Silent Protagonist (1095), Physics (1053), Aliens (1017), Great Soundtrack (1005), Horror (882), Puzzle (789), Multiplayer (776), Moddable (578)
Category: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Captions available, Steam Cloud, Includes Source SDK, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, Remote Play Together, Family Sharing
Release date: Nov 16, 2004
Price: $9.99
Old userscore: 97% Metascore: 96%
Owners: 5,000,000 .. 10,000,000
Followers: 88,006
Peak concurrent players yesterday: 1,387
YouTube stats: 50 new videos uploaded yesterday.
Playtime in the last 2 weeks: 00:45 (average) 01:06 (median)
Playtime total: 07:14 (average) 04:53 (median)

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