One-off purchase
Half-Life: Alyx cost to play
What Half-Life: Alyx costs on Steam UK, how many people play it on Steam and which age rating it carries.
Half-Life: Alyx gameplay, images and trailer
© Valve, Half-Life: Alyx trailer “Gameplay 1” on Steam · Steam store page
The short version
- From £48.49: Cheapest standard price: Half-Life: Alyx (Steam UK, standard price)
- One-off price: Bought once; no store currency or random items on this page
- 12 h to beat: Main story: 12 hours (HowLongToBeat)
- £4.04 an hour: £48.49 ÷ 12 hours (main story)
- 980 Steam peak: Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts)
- USK 16: Age rating
- Released
- 23 March 2020
- Developer
- Valve
- Platforms
- PC VR
- Age rating
- USK 16
- Genre
- Action, Shooter
- Modes
- Single-player
On this page
Half-Life: Alyx player count
Concurrent players on Steam, from Steam Charts, read 28 Oct 2026.
- Peak, last 30 days
- 980
- Peak, Sept 2026
- 813
- 308 on average
- Change vs Aug 2026
- +92%
- monthly peak
- All-time peak
- 16,459
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Is Half-Life: Alyx dead?
Not dead, but small on Steam: Half-Life: Alyx peaked at 813 players at once in September 2026, with 308 playing at any moment on average. Peaks are down 21% on the three months before. These are Steam players only; people playing on PC VR or other PC stores aren't counted, so the real number is higher.
| Month | Average | Peak | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 308 | 813 | +92.2% |
| August 2026 | 231 | 423 | −32.4% |
| July 2026 | 295 | 626 | −0.3% |
| June 2026 | 242 | 628 | −10.0% |
| May 2026 | 293 | 698 | −32.1% |
| April 2026 | 325 | 1,028 | +34.7% |
| March 2026 | 300 | 763 | −25.0% |
| February 2026 | 364 | 1,018 | −15.1% |
| January 2026 | 483 | 1,199 | +0.3% |
| December 2025 | 449 | 1,196 | +83.7% |
| November 2025 | 305 | 651 | −19.7% |
| October 2025 | 297 | 811 | – |
What Half-Life: Alyx costs to play
| Item | Price | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Half-Life: Alyx (Steam UK, standard price) | £48.49 | game | store.steampowered.com Checked 21 Oct 2026 |
How long is Half-Life: Alyx?
Half-Life: Alyx takes about 12 hours to finish the main story, and about 19 hours to complete everything.
- Main story12 h
- Main + extras14.5 h
- Completionist19 h
Cost per hour (main story)
£4.04
£48.49 on Steam UK ÷ 12 h
Source: HowLongToBeat, read 28 Oct 2026. Your time will vary with difficulty and play style.
How Half-Life: Alyx is rated
GamesChart Score
87.6, #40 of 3,236 rated games
#3 of 2020 · #7 of the 2020s · #8 in Puzzle · #32 on PC
Critics
Players
Built from 99,018 ratings across 5 of 5 sources. Critics and players count 50/50. Ratings pulled 5 November 2026.
Where it sits in the ranking
- #39
Super Mario Galaxy 22010 · Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development87.7 - #40
Half-Life: Alyx2020 · Valve87.6 - #41
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim2011 · Bethesda Game Studios87.5
Half-Life: Alyx questions
How much does Half-Life: Alyx cost in the UK?
Half-Life: Alyx (Steam UK, standard price): £48.49. Prices checked 21 October 2026.
Is Half-Life: Alyx free to play?
No. Half-Life: Alyx is not free to play: you buy the game to play it.
How long is Half-Life: Alyx?
Main story: about 12 hours. Main + extras: about 14.5 hours. Completionist: about 19 hours (HowLongToBeat). At £48.49, that's £4.04 per hour (main story).
What age rating is Half-Life: Alyx?
Half-Life: Alyx is rated USK 16.
How many people play Half-Life: Alyx?
Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts): 980, checked 21 October 2026. Its all-time Steam peak is 16,459.
What is Half-Life: Alyx's all-time Steam peak?
16,459 concurrent players on Steam, the highest Steam Charts has recorded for Half-Life: Alyx (read 28 October 2026). The peak in the last 30 days was 980. Players on other stores and consoles aren't counted.
Is Half-Life: Alyx dead?
Not dead, but small on Steam: Half-Life: Alyx peaked at 813 players at once in September 2026, with 308 playing at any moment on average. Peaks are down 21% on the three months before. These are Steam players only; people playing on PC VR or other PC stores aren't counted, so the real number is higher.
Do these Half-Life: Alyx player numbers include consoles?
No. The player counts on this page are Steam only (Steam Charts, read 28 October 2026). People playing on PC VR, through Game Pass or on other PC stores aren't counted, and publishers rarely publish those figures.
Who makes Half-Life: Alyx?
Half-Life: Alyx is developed by Valve.
Half-Life: Alyx is a single-player first-person action game made and published by Valve. It came out on 23 March 2020 for PC virtual reality headsets, and it only runs in VR; Steam lists it as "VR Only". It is sold at a one-off price on Steam. It ranks #40 in our best games of all time ranking.
How it plays
Half-Life: Alyx is a single-player game built from the ground up for virtual reality, and it only runs in VR. It is set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2. You play Alyx Vance who, with her father Dr Eli Vance, helped found a resistance against the Combine, an alien race that has tightened its grip on Earth and herded the remaining population into cities.
Valve describes the play as a mix of environmental interaction, puzzle solving, exploration and combat. You can lean around a broken wall to aim under a Barnacle, search shelves for a healing syringe or shotgun shells, use tools to hack alien interfaces, throw a bottle through a window to distract an enemy, or pull a Headcrab off your face and throw it away.
The game comes with Source 2 level-building tools, including an updated version of Valve's Hammer editor, so players can build new environments and share them through the Steam Workshop.
What it costs
On Steam UK the game costs £48.49 at standard price. Steam also lists a separate Commercial License package at £49.99, which isn't the version most players buy. Steam shows one DLC item for the game.
Players
The 30-day peak on Steam Charts was 980 concurrent players, read on 21 October 2026. Its all-time peak on Steam Charts is 16,459 concurrent players. Half-Life: Alyx is only sold on Steam, so this covers its PC players.
Age rating
We could not find a PEGI rating. The Steam store data gives a German age rating of 16 (USK 16) for horror, so we show USK 16. Brazil's rating in the same data is 16 for extreme violence.
How we checked
The price is the Steam UK listing, read on 21 October 2026, at standard price. Player figures are from Steam Charts on the same day. The age rating is from Steam's store data; we also searched pegi.info. The gameplay description is based on the publisher's Steam store page.
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Sources
- Card art and page images – Half-Life: Alyx Steam store screenshots (Valve), published by store.steampowered.com
- Steam UK – Half-Life: Alyx, published by store.steampowered.com
- PEGI rating – Half-Life: Alyx (searched, not found), published by pegi.info
- Steam Charts – Half-Life: Alyx, published by steamcharts.com
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