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Half-Life Arena
Welcome to Half-Life Arena, a mod that revamps Deathmatch of the original game into a small-scale, high intensity madness with new maps, weapons, bot support and quality of life features inspired by the Head-to-Head mode of the PS2 version of Valve's timeless classic.

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Features
Single-player
Online PvP
LAN PvP
Steam is learning about this mod 
Uses Anti-Cheat Software
VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat)
Languages:
Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English ✔ ✔
Content
Includes Interactive Elements

Online interactivity, In-game chat

Community-Made Mod

This community-made mod requires that you own Half-Life.

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This game is not yet available on Steam

Planned Release Date: Dec 12, 2025

This game plans to unlock in approximately 12 days

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About This Game

Experience the chaos of classic Half-Life deathmatch, boiled down to a compact package designed for 2-8 players. Inspired by Head-to-Head mode from Playstation 2 version of the original game, Arena sets out to provide intense non-stop action

Utilize classic Half-Life weaponry such as Crowbar, MP5 Sub-Machine Gun or Gauss Rifle aswell as selection of weapons from Opposing Force expansion pack, including Pipe Wrench, M40 Sniper Rifle, Spore Launch and more. You may run into some brand new toys aswell, from Silenced Pistol to Heavy Rifle and Auto Shotgun

No friends? No problem! Arena comes with bot support for both online and offline play, powered by jkBotti. Now you can enjoy the madness of uranium-powered combat anywhere at any time!

Based on Bugfixed version of Half-Life, Arena comes with a number of QoL features and customizable elements such as support for custom HUD colors, improved crosshairs for better readability, extended roster of player models and more

Notice

Half-Life Arena is a fan-made modification for Half-Life. Dark Vector is not associated with Valve in any way.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game features depiction of violence and gore

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows XP
    • Processor: 1 GHz processor
    • Memory: 256 MB RAM
    • Graphics: 512 MB video card
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
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