How to Get Half-Life for Free Before Valve’s Offer Expires
When is Half-Life 3 coming out? Perhaps never; who knows. But for now, Valve is giving you the rare opportunity to play the full versions of Half-Life and Half-Life 2 for free, with one important time-limiting trick.
Valve’s ad campaign coincides with the upcoming release of Half-Life Alyx – not the highly anticipated first-person shooter Half-Life 3 , mind you, but a virtual reality adventure game set in the Half-Life universe. Until a new game comes out in March, Valve will let everyone know about Half-Life by providing free access to Half-Life and Half-Life 2 .
First, open the Steam pages for Half-Life and Half-Life 2 . There you should see a small box that encourages you to play games for free for the next two months. Click it to activate and set the headers:
Technically, nearly every game in Valve’s Half-Life world gets the same two-month promotion (including Team Fortress Classic ). So, if you want more voraciously, click the titles in his Half-Life Complete list and select the same “Play the Game” option for those that interest you the most. Oddly enough, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch is not involved in the promotion, but I doubt you will find many people playing it anyway.
As for Half-Life Alyx , it can’t be played for free – after all, the game hasn’t been released yet. You can get a free copy of the game for $ 60 if you buy the Valve Index VR headset (for just $ 999), and pre-ordering the game right now on Steam saves you 10 percent, but that’s just two deals. available at the moment.