Fun, chaotic play with friends
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“Is it polished? Not really. Is it balanced? Also no. Is it one of the most fun co-op experiences you can have for free? Easily.”
Steam review · 23.6 h played ↗
Sven Co-op
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 93%Very Positive · 93%Sven Co-op team2016FPS · Shooter · Shoot 'Em Up
Free to play
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 4 h ago
The verdict
A free, chaotic co-op version of Half-Life 1 and its expansions with tons of community maps. Skip it if you have no friends to play with or dislike public-server toxicity and dev drama.
Great for
Friend groups who want to play Half-Life and its expansions in chaotic, free co-op
Main risk
Hard setup, buggy changes, and empty or toxic public servers if you lack friends
What players love
Free Half-Life with co-op
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“Allows to play trough the original game, the Gearbox expansions, and loads of custom community-made maps with friends.”
Steam review · 12.7 h played ↗
Huge variety of community maps and content
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“the insane variety of custom content is where it truly shines”
Steam review · 14.4 h played ↗
Includes Opposing Force and Blue Shift co-op
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“PLUS you can play blue shift and opposing force together”
Steam review · 18.4 h played ↗
Runs on very low-end PCs
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“this is basically the only game you can play on an old office pc and i love it”
Steam review · 4.4 h played ↗
Custom player models and skins
Mentioned in ~1 in 25 positive reviews
“best thing is playermodels. playermodels are life.”
Steam review · 60.5 h played ↗
What players complain about
Bugs and broken updates
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“buggy and basically unplayable on the campaign.”
Steam review · 4.9 h played ↗
Hard to set up and join friends
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“we can't figure out how to set up a server for just us. I don't understand why we can't just connect the same way we do on every other Steam game”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗
Changes that stray from classic Half-Life
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“the game barely feels like half life. arbitrary changes on everything that could possibly be changed with no options to revert to the original experience.”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗
Crashes and connection issues
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“this game crashed all the time for no reason”
Steam review · 3.2 h played ↗
Toxic, trolling public servers
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“everyone is trying to do nsfw things and be extremely racist and homophobic”
Steam review · 7 h played ↗
Dead servers, few players
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews
“There was no one in lobbies, it just felt like I was looking at what something used to be, not a game.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable2 GB
Minimum
OSWindows® 7 (32 or 64 bit)
Processor1 GHz single core processor, x86 architecture
Memory512 MB RAM
Graphics64MB video card capable of using OpenGL 2.1 in immediate mode
Storage2 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows® 10/11 (32 or 64 bit)
Processor2 GHz dual or more core processor, x86 architecture (SMT is acceptable)
Memory2 GB RAM
Graphics256MB video card with pixel shaders and great OpenGL 2.1 support, particularly in immediate mode
Storage4 GB available space
OSWindows® 7 (32 or 64 bit)
Processor1 GHz single core processor, x86 architecture
Memory512 MB RAM
Graphics64MB video card capable of using OpenGL 2.1 in immediate mode
Storage2 GB available space
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