Half-Life: Fans break old player record on Steam

Half-Life is considered a milestone in the shooter genre and, like Half-Life 2, enjoys a certain legendary status, although the first part was released a few years before Valve’s distribution platform Steam was launched. Accordingly, the record for most people who played Half-Life on Steam at the same time was just over 6,000, despite its high popularity, because the shooter classic has simply passed its zenith despite many fans and the modding community.

However, this number has now surprisingly more than doubled recently and is now at 12,310, which can be attributed to a campaign by the YouTube channel “LambdaGeneration”. Under the Twitter hashtag #RememberFreeman, Half-Life (buy now €47.62) on August 14th to break the previous record of 6,022 concurrent players recorded in the database of the independent platform SteamDB at the time.

Fans break record

The rules for the event stipulated that players had to be in game for at least half an hour for Steam to register the event. Also, players had to use the original game, so neither the source build nor any of the official DLCs were allowed. “LambdaGeneration” recorded a live stream of the event, which lasted almost three hours. You could loud during the playthrough Gamerant.com see that most players in the game peaked at 12,280. However, a tweet announcing the record included an update stating that Steam had actually registered 12,310 players.

While many fans of the game series may continue to wait for Half-Life 3 after the VR offshoot Half-Life: Alyx, which the rumor mill says there have been no signs of development, Steam last had its own user record in January of this year with a total of 28, Reached 2 million concurrent players, which was almost three million more than last year.