Readers' Recommendations

Releases that readers have recommended others play.

Test Lab 16

for Half-Life

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

This short map won TWHL’s Test Chamber Mapping Competition back in November 2005.

Here is the original brief: “For this competition, you must build a functioning and original test chamber, similar to the one in HL where everything goes wrong. There should be a specimen of some description being tested, and then everything should go horribly wrong (again). You can include other sections in the map if you wish, but you shouldn’t let that detract you from making a detailed and original test chamber.”

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Total Downloads: 2,3597th October 2013
10 Comments and 7 recommendations, most say "Play It Later"

No Freedom

for Half-Life 2

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

A curfew locks down the city, but Gordon must go through a Combine Security building in order to get across town. Because the route Gordon must take takes him through a building controlled by the Combine, the mission does not go smoothly.

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Total Downloads: 1,74119th May 2009
17 Comments and 7 recommendations, most say "Play It Later"

Saw Life

for Half-Life 2

About “It is based in a house that you mysteriously wake up in..and the apparent owner of the house has a little sinister game for you…the puzzles in this map are quite hard (There are clues lying around, but you need to look carefully!) and the best of it is…you only have 30 (Real life… Read More

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Total Downloads: 2,09816th September 2006
103 Comments and 7 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

Cliff Cottage

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

You find yourself in a cliff-side community village overrun by headcrabs.

There’s no where to hide or run, so the only way is forward.

Do what you do best (kill anything that gets in your way) and clear the village and hope for escape.

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Total Downloads: 1,5984th February 2016
24 Comments and 22 recommendations with no significant bias

Provenance

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

Provenance is a short singleplayer mod for Half-Life 2 where the player explores a section of the lab (known as Sector B) as Gordon Freeman. It’s purpose is more of a portfolio mod.

So says the author. I just wish all portfolio pieces were this good!

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Total Downloads: 3,1408th September 2009
51 Comments and 22 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!

Slums 2

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 an updated and extended version of Slums.

You are disorientated and lost. You regain full awareness in what looks to be a storage room in an apartment block.

Work your way through a variety of environments to find your way to freedom.

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Total Downloads: 1,8952nd August 2009
53 Comments and 22 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!

Missing Information

for Half-Life 2

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

“Missing Information is a mod which brings the old Half-Life 2 story from prototype concepts to what you expected the game would be like when you viewed the E3 trailers. This release features the Borealis and E3 Presentation only as a public test. The Borealis is what Valve had created after Half-Life 1 was released.”

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Total Downloads: 4,24723rd September 2008
47 Comments and 15 recommendations, 5 say "Play It Later"

Old School

for Half-Life 2

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

Tired of Half-Life 2 environments? Well now you can fight the Combine in a Japanese setting. Play in 18 levels, all with new textures. The gameplay is Old School hence the name. The gameplay consists of killing the enemy and finding keys to open the door to the next area. Simple and fun.

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Total Downloads: 2,13815th June 2008
47 Comments and 15 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!