Half-Life: Blue Shift
Made by Gearbox Software and originally released in 2001 as an add-on to Half-Life, Blue Shift is a return to the Black Mesa Research Facility in which you play as Barney Calhoun, the security guard sidekick who helped Gordon out of so many sticky situations.
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Developer: Gearbox Software Publisher: Valve
Genre: Action
Languages: English, French, German
Tags: FPS (504), Action (318), Sci-fi (246), Singleplayer (226), Shooter (203), Aliens (185), Classic (176), First-Person (167), Zombies (116), Adventure (111), 1990's (106), Short (96), Atmospheric (94), Silent Protagonist (80), Story Rich (69), Puzzle (45), Retro (44), Moddable (40), Great Soundtrack (37), Violent (33)
Category: Single-player, Custom Volume Controls, Adjustable Difficulty, Playable without Timed Input, Save Anytime, Family Sharing
Release date: Jun 1, 2001
Price: $4.99
Score rank: 97% Userscore: 92% Old userscore: 92% Metascore: 71%
Owners: 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000
Ownership data: 2026-11-12 (UTC)
Followers: 10,757
Peak concurrent players yesterday: 101
Playtime in the last 2 weeks: 03:45 (average) 03:45 (median)
Playtime total: 02:59 (average) 01:52 (median)
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