Games like Half-Life: Alyx
If Half-Life: Alyx is your kind of game, the closest matches are Half-Life 2, Black Mesa and Arizona Sunshine® — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and stressful. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Half-Life: Alyx is a 2020 VR action-adventure game developed by Valve, set in the Half-Life universe between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. The game casts players as Alyx Vance in a fight against the Combine alien occupation. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and immersive, with reviewers highlighting how the environment reacts to every interaction they make. The mechanics emphasize environmental interactivity, hand-based interaction, and physics-based puzzles, while weapon detail and pistol reloading are noted for their physical accuracy. Players also mention that teleport movement helps reduce motion sickness in this first-person sci-fi shooter. The game holds a 98% positive rating from over 60,000 Steam reviews and costs $59.99. It is not supported on Steam Deck.
About Half-Life: Alyx: Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
Players who liked Half-Life: Alyx also play
Steam players who put hours into Half-Life: Alyx also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Half-Life 2
WHY THIS
Shares environmental interactivity and an atmospheric mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Top pick for Half-Life: Alyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
Black Mesa
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Second-strongest match for Half-Life: Alyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Relive Half-Life.
Arizona Sunshine®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Third-strongest match for Half-Life: Alyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
Alien: Rogue Incursion VR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Ranked #4 for Half-Life: Alyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Alien: Rogue Incursion is an all-new action-horror VR game that transforms you into ex-Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks on a dangerous mission to the uncharted planet Purdan, featuring innovative real-life motion gameplay, a whole-body loadout, and the most cunning Xenomorphs ever encountered.
HordeZ
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Ranked #5 for Half-Life: Alyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
If you are looking for a on-rails arcade experience that blends between classics like Doom, Left 4 dead and House of the Dead then we got you covered! Fast and simple gameplay that will bring you into a creepy world of zombies and demons. Show your skills to the world through our global leadboard system!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Ranked #6 for Half-Life: Alyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DOOM VFR
WHY THIS
Shares teleport movement and a stressful mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Ranked #7 for Half-Life: Alyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
DOOM® VFR brings the fast-paced, brutal gameplay fans of the series love to virtual reality. Play as a cybernetic survivor who is activated by the UAC to fight the demon invasion, maintain order, and prevent catastrophic failure at the Mars facility.
Vertigo 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Ranked #8 for Half-Life: Alyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Vertigo 2 is a single-player VR adventure. Explore the depths of the vast Quantum Reactor as you descend to finish your journey home.
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Red Matter 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Reviewers of Half-Life: Alyx cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Red Matter 2 is an immersive, puzzle-adventure game that will transport you to the far reaches of space. Step into the shoes of Sasha, an agent awakened in a lunar base by an undercover operative and tasked with uncovering the secrets of the mysterious Red Matter.
Red Matter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Reviewers of Half-Life: Alyx cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Red Matter is a story-driven VR puzzle adventure game set during a dystopian sci-fi Cold War. Take on the role of Agent Epsilon, an astronaut of the Atlantic Union dispatched to an abandoned Volgravian moon base on a faraway planet. Your mission: to investigate a shady top secret research project.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Half-Life: Alyx cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Half-Life 2
WHY THIS
Shares environmental interactivity and an atmospheric mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Reviewers of Half-Life: Alyx cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
BONEWORKS
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Reviewers of Half-Life: Alyx cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
BONEWORKS is an Experimental Physics VR Adventure. Use found physics weapons, tools, and objects to fight across dangerous playscapes and mysterious architecture.
BioShock™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Reviewers of Half-Life: Alyx cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
VRChat
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Reviewers of Half-Life: Alyx cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Join our growing community as you explore, play, and help craft the future of social VR. Create worlds and custom avatars. Welcome to VRChat.
Prey
WHY THIS
Shares physics based puzzles and an atmospheric mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Reviewers of Half-Life: Alyx cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Half-Life: Alyx at current Steam store prices.
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Half-Life: Alyx on Steam right now. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Half-Life: Alyx on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Priced ~83% under Half-Life: Alyx on Steam right now. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Half-Life: Alyx on Steam right now. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Half-Life: Alyx on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Half-Life: Alyx on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Half-Life: Alyx on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Valve
Other recommendable Steam games by Valve, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life: Alyx. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life: Alyx. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Half-Life 2
WHY THIS
Shares environmental interactivity and an atmospheric mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life: Alyx. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
Portal
WHY THIS
Shares physics based puzzles with Half-Life: Alyx.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life: Alyx. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Counter-Strike
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life: Alyx. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Play the world's number 1 online action game. Engage in an incredibly realistic brand of terrorist warfare in this wildly popular team-based game. Ally with teammates to complete strategic missions. Take out enemy sites. Rescue hostages. Your role affects your team's success. Your team's success affects your role.
Counter-Strike: Source
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life: Alyx. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.
Half-Life
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Half-Life: Alyx.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life: Alyx. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
Frequently asked about Half-Life: Alyx
- Does Half-Life: Alyx work on Steam Deck?
- Half-Life: Alyx is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Half-Life: Alyx cost?
- Half-Life: Alyx is listed on Steam at 59.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Half-Life: Alyx?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Half-Life: Alyx are Half-Life 2, Black Mesa, Arizona Sunshine®.
- Who developed Half-Life: Alyx?
- Half-Life: Alyx was developed by Valve.
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