Readers' Recommendations

Releases that readers have recommended others play.

Random Quest

for Half-Life 2

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3
This mod features some intense action scenes, but most of these come later on, much of the earlier parts of the mod are focused on adventure and storytelling.

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Total Downloads: 3,5431st June 2009
71 Comments and 28 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!

TWHL Tower

for Half-Life

You have received a call to a tower. The guy you meet there is not very happy just to see you.

He thinks he needs a team. Little does he know how effective you are.

Follow his instructions and do what you do best.

Then get to the roof and escape.

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Total Downloads: 6,3347th January 2016
55 Comments and 24 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

Operation Nova

for Half-Life

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

The episode takes place during the events featured in the original Half-Life; specifically, the episode entitled On a Rail. The player plays John Skinner, a cleaner who wears a similar HEV suit to Freeman, and is hence mistaken for him by the military. Skinner’s objective is to destroy a surface-to-air missile launcher, which the military have brought in to take out the sattelite delivery rocket being launched by Freeman.

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Total Downloads: 3,06915th September 2008
50 Comments and 20 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

The Evasion

for Half-Life

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

Playing as Adrian Shephard set shortly after the nuclear bomb that devastated the Black Mesa Research Facility.

You find yourself on a Xen “island” being kept out of harms way.

Fortunately, you have managed to contact a scientist back on Earth and he can help you return.

Whether that’s a good thing only time will tell!

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Total Downloads: 6,28112th February 2013
20 Comments and 16 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

Ghosts of White Forest

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

“Players gain a new ability to toggle between two worlds in order to activate a missile launch vital to the resistance effort. The world of the living is warm, dusty, partially destroyed, and crawling with headcrabs. The ghost world represents the past. Structures destroyed in the living world appear intact in the ghost world. It is also bitter cold in the ghost world. Gordon only hears the sound of his breath, and the cries of the ghosts that reside there.”

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Total Downloads: 2,44610th May 2010
36 Comments and 16 recommendations, 5 say "Play It Now!"

Compromised

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

This is both a playable level and an investigation into “how players absorb critical information”. Don’t expect anything too clinical because this is definitely a level where you will have to play to win.

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Total Downloads: 2,6057th September 2008
35 Comments and 16 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

Point of View

for Half-Life

About You have been Gordon Freeman, Adrian Shepard and Barney. And what did you did during all that time? You killed all those poor Xen aliens! Have you ever thought about their Point of View? POV-Point of View is a new single player Half-Life MOD where you will play as a Alien Slave named Xonxt.… Read More

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Total Downloads: 15,0137th April 2006
57 Comments and 16 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!

Alternative Way Part 1

for Half-Life

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

Wake up. Take a shower.

Go down the elevator and take the green truck to work.

Oh BOY! Things just took a turn for the worst.

Don’t let those pesky aliens or army grunts stand in your way!

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Total Downloads: 4,1338th December 2011
35 Comments and 14 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

The Sprucecape Mod

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

You take the role of John Sprucecape, a violent unemployed man with an alcohol addiction living in Alaska.

He’s wife fears for their child and herself, but is too frightened to leave John, fearing the reaction of her husband.

One day John’s wife has collected enough courage to flee from Point Spruce with their small son, Eddie.

Passed out, John has been left alone and locked in his own house. It’s time to find his escaping family.

John is about to experience the most fearsome and challenging journey of his life.

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Total Downloads: 3,87416th February 2016
28 Comments and 12 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"