VR game Half-Life: Alyx not getting multiplayer mode multiplayer

The VR game Half-Life: Alyx will only be playable as a single player game. Valve has no plans to add a multiplayer mode to the game. The setup will also be the same as with the first Half-Life games from the beginning of this century.

That setup is a game in which players go linearly from the beginning to the end, developer Robin Walker reports in an interview with The Verge. “In some spaces there are multiple ways to move forward, but you’re always moving forward,” Walker said. The game would last about as long as Half-Life 2 from 2004.

Valve announced Alyx last month. It is a prequel set between the events of Half-Life 1 and 2. Alyx teams up with her father Eli to form a resistance group against the Combine aliens. Half-Life: Alyx will be released next March for Vive and Oculus glasses, as well as for Windows Mixed Reality headsets, and will be available for purchase on Steam.

So players don’t necessarily need a Valve Index headset. Those who do, however, get the game for free, including ‘extra content’. It is not known what that extra content is. The game will not be available for normal screens or controllers, according to Valve. Valve says players will need at least a Windows 10 PC with an Intel Core i5-7500 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 CPU, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580 graphics card. Players also need at least 12 gigabytes of RAM. The game costs 49.99 euros.