Valve has confirmed, the Half-Life series of games are now free-to-play on Steam until March 2020.
The following titles are free to play:
- Half-Life: Source
- Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
- Half-Life: Blue Shift
- Half-Life: Opposing Force
- Half-Life 2
- Half-Life 2: Episode One
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two
The free to play period is so players can play through the old series before the release of Half-Life Alyx later in March Valve has confirmed:
Half-Life Alyx releases on Windows PC via Windows Mixed Reality, Valve Index, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive in March 2020.“The games share characters and story elements. The Half-Life: Alyx team believes that the best way to enjoy the new game is to play through the old ones, especially Half-Life 2 and the episodes, so we want to make that as easy as possible.”