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Releases that readers have recommended others play.

Azure Sheep

for Half-Life

Introduction
Azure Sheep is a single player mod for Half-Life. You play one of the security guards that is on duty in one of the entrances of the Black Mesa facility. When the chaos starts you realise that Kate, your colleague, code name Azure Sheep, is in the complex and in big danger. You decide to rescue her!

The Story
Barney is a security guard, well Barney at the moment is just Barney, or, well, Just Barney, because with all the recent mess at Black Mesa he can’t remember his name. Just Barney didn’t want to be a security guard but, you know life.

However, he had a secret dream, he was writing a novel and…but well that is another story. Barney has another dream: to become a hero and rescue a princess, nothing more. Now, when the big mess occurred, he was in the first security post of Black Mesa and a colleague of him, Kate, (codename Azure Sheep) seems to be trapped in. Barney will go and try to rescue her, what an occasion…

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Total Downloads: 17,9593rd September 2001
97 Comments and 34 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!

The Citizen Returns

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Set in both the heart and outside of City 17, “The Citizen Returns” contains the final chapters of our citizen’s story, as well as an updated version of Part II.

The story takes place shortly after a failed assassination attempt on Dr. Breen leads to the first ever use of the Overwatch Broadcast system by The Resistance, represented by former garage
owner Larry Soderstrom Jr.

The Combine forces decide to capture him and try to use his public repentance and execution as a means to appease the emergent rebellion.

The Citizens of City 17 however have other ideas in mind. Larry is now a symbol for the rebellion and a key asset in a bigger plot to deal a fatal blow to the Combine and its grip on humankind…

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Total Downloads: 12,84023rd June 2014
127 Comments and 20 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!

BacktrackVille

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Welcome to the third challenge from The Hammer Cup 2016, which has a Grand Prize of a NECA Gravity Gun, plus other prizes for second and third places.

This challenge contains 12 entries all with the idea of a “backtracking” as the main theme.

One of the staple events in video games is the backtrack sequence. A part of the game where you retrace your steps in the exact location but this time something has changed.

The change can be due to new enemies, a violent explosion, time travel, new vehicles etc.

We would like you to create a map where the player interacts with an area and then has to backtrack through the same area, but the area must have changed.

The reason for the change and the exact change is entirely up to you.

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Total Downloads: 6,57130th April 2016
85 Comments and 15 recommendations, most say "Play It Later"

Half-Quake Amen

for Half-Life

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

You live your everyday life. Work, family, house, children – whatever.

But one day you get caught in an absolutely dark, surrealistic and sadistic world called Halfquake. Is it an institution?

Is it on earth? Noone seems to care about you, your pain and your life. Forget your past, it’s gone forever. Just pray it won’t be too sadistic.

Amen.

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Total Downloads: 3,3714th December 2011
51 Comments and 15 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!

Antlions Everywhere

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

The man character, Carter Grok together with a squad of rebels, has received new orders.

They are to reach City-S where more rebels are located.

To reach the city, the player’s squad is sent through the mines in an attempt to avoid the main Combine forces.

Once in the mine, the squad is separated and the player finds himself alone.

That’s only the beginning of his troubles.

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Total Downloads: 2,54422nd November 2015
19 Comments and 10 recommendations with no significant bias

Saint Black Mountain

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

The Combine have taken control of a important rebel supply route.

It’s fallen on you to clear out the Combine, so that the resistance can restock it and resume operations.

It’s a big area and they have got themselves pretty well set in.

Take your time and make sure you clear the whole area and make sure you stop that DAMN weapon ASAP!

Good Luck.

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Total Downloads: 3,40723rd March 2014
23 Comments and 10 recommendations, 5 say "Play It Now!"

Hypnagogia

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Please give way to oncoming traffic. Hypnagogia is an abstract map heavily inspired by shadgrimgrvy’s works. Continue your journey through Somnolence City. Fight, explore and puzzle your way through ever changing locales and try to make sense of things as you travel towards a looming, but unknown threat.

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Total Downloads: 8952nd October 2022
6 Comments and 5 recommendations with no significant bias

Grey

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

“Grey’s life has been nothing but a struggle. A constant downward spiral, and it seems even reality has turned against him. Grey awakens to find that the world has gone quiet, the streets empty. You must find help.

Explore the grim world Grey lives in a completely new and unique world, and find clues to his shattered past.

Grey is a total conversion Half-Life 2 horror modification where the player must solve puzzles, fight to survive, and find out what is happening to the world around you.

Lots of changes have been made to the base Source engine and countless new mechanics have been added to the mod, such as the objective indicator, portable medkit, donator based extras, pickup animations, failed reloads and new picture based GUI elements to name but a few!”

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Total Downloads: 1,96525th May 2015
14 Comments and 5 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!