Chaotic, fun classic deathmatch
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“great time waster, just hop on for a bit and hop back off. no progression, no grinding, just frags,”
Steam review · 17 h played ↗
Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mostly Positive · 75%Mostly Positive · 75%Valve2006FPS · Shooter · Action
The verdict
A free-with-bundle port of classic HL deathmatch with chaotic, fast fun, but few players and long-standing SteamPipe-era bugs. Skip it if you want a populated server or the better original.
Great for
Nostalgic Half-Life fans with friends, or Garry's Mod users wanting HL1 content
Main risk
Servers are mostly empty, and the game is buggy and worse than original HLDM
What players love
Some servers still have players
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“Still a small community that plays it and there are also bots in some servers so it wont ever technically be dead”
Steam review · 3.1 h played ↗
Improved visuals and physics
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 positive reviews
“nice water visuals and funny ragdolls on death”
Steam review · 2.3 h played ↗
Great with friends
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“if you have friends to play w/ i recommend this heavily; as it holds up even in the modern day.”
Steam review · 569.4 h played ↗
Runs smoothly on low-end PCs
Mentioned in ~1 in 25 positive reviews
“IT RUNS LIKE AT 200FPS ON A LAPTOP!!!”
Steam review · 10.5 h played ↗
Useful for Garry's Mod content
Mentioned in ~1 in 30 positive reviews
“it allows for so much content in Gmod because you can now have HL1 stuff.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗
What players complain about
Dead playerbase, empty servers
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“Sorry folks, but you're not going to find anyone to play with. There's usually less than ten players on a good day”
Steam review · 30 h played ↗
Worse than original GoldSrc HL deathmatch
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“If you want to play Half Life Deathmatch for real, just buy the OG Half Life. It's cheaper, and it isn't as glitchy.”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗
Buggy, broken since SteamPipe update
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“due to the Steampipe update back in 2013 this game was entirely ruined”
Steam review · 2.9 h played ↗
Bad hit registration and hitboxes
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“Tau cannon with huge input lag, scoped crossbow with huge sensitivity, shotgun deals no damage”
Steam review · translated · 0.8 h played ↗
Abandoned by Valve, cheaters and no updates
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“Nobody at Valve lifted a finger to fix this creation.”
Steam review · translated · 8.1 h played ↗
Crashes
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“crashes instantly every time i join a game”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable4 GB
Minimum
OSWindows® 7 (32/64-bit)/Vista/XP
Processor1.7 GHz Processor, requires support for SSE
Memory1024 MB RAM
Storage4 GB available space
OSWindows® 7 (32/64-bit)/Vista/XP
Processor1.7 GHz Processor, requires support for SSE
Memory1024 MB RAM
Storage4 GB available space
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