Interested parties can pick up Black Mesa for $19.99. The Early Access version also includes multiplayer deathmatch and team deathmatch modes with six completely re-imagined Half-Life 1 maps: Bounce, Gasworks, Lambdabunker, Stalkyard, Subtransit and Undertow. With it come new visuals, new voiceovers, updated gameplay encounters, stability changes and more. As such, putting a time estimate on it would be a total guess. On its Early Access page, the team said the remaining 15 percent will take a considerable amount of time to complete to their standards. The single-player campaign for Black Mesa is now 85 percent complete which translates to over 10 hours of gameplay.
As an Early Access title, it’s still not complete but it’s far more than was included in the free mod. A version of the project was released in 2012 and eventually recognized by Valve although it was far from finished.įast-forward to present time where the Black Mesa development team has released the re-envisioned game on Steam Early Access. Half-Life fans are no doubt familiar with Black Mesa, the total remake of the original Half-Life that started as a mod for Half-Life: Source roughly a decade ago.
