Legendary shooter celebrates a phenomenal steam comeback for a short time

The older of you may still remember when Valve’s first baby stepped through the gates of the first-person shooter world many years ago. Now fans of the series are reviving the franchise on Steam. Why? Because they can!

Half-Life 2: Community revives shooters

The second part of the Half-Life series was delighted sharply increasing numbers of players on Steam and even has the previous record of simultaneously active players within a short time cracked. But this ascent is no coincidence.

Gordon Freeman and Co. benefit recently by a lot of fan love in the form of the so-called breaking-the-bar event that from the LambdaGeneration, a well-known half-life community and launched on August 14th. The aim of the project was to find out whether the current mark of 6,882 players is on SteamDB can be broken.

Not only did it hit the old high clear to surpass, even the almost ten-year-old record of at least 12,953 could be broken. The new house number of the valve shooter is currently 16,101 simultaneous players.

Interest in Half-Life 2 evaporated

Due to its age, Half-Life 2 doesn’t support most of Steam’s tracking features these days. By the time the popular gaming platform began tracking player numbers, most players had also ended the popular first-person shooter. Of course, that had a corresponding effect effects on the number of hits in the following years.

After the game now briefly Has benefited from the increased interest and has been able to raise the bar, the LambdaGeneration is already planning with Entering The Portal comparable event on August 31st. The fun will then revolve around Portal 2.

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Half-Life 2 was released on November 17th, 2004 for Mac and PC. The franchise has sold more than eight million copies, won numerous prizes and is considered a trailblazer for the genre thanks to the combination of action and clever storytelling.