How many people are playing Half-Life: Blue Shift right now?

34 people are playing Half-Life: Blue Shift on Steam right now, making it the 4098th most played game on Steam. In the last 24 hours it peaked at 57 players. The number updates every few minutes.

What is Half-Life: Blue Shift's all-time peak player count?

Half-Life: Blue Shift's highest concurrent player count on Steam is 3,145, reached in August 2024.

Is Half-Life: Blue Shift good? What do Steam reviews say?

92% of 18,830 Steam user reviews are positive (Very Positive).

How much does Half-Life: Blue Shift cost on Steam?

Half-Life: Blue Shift costs $4.99 on Steam (US).

Does Half-Life: Blue Shift work on Steam Deck?

Half-Life: Blue Shift is Playable on Steam Deck (with small issues), according to Valve's Steam Deck compatibility check.

Half-Life: Blue Shift

by Gearbox Software · published by Valve · Released Jun 1, 2001

Steam Deck PlayableLinux & Deck: Platinum

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Players now

#4,098

▼ 10.5%vs 24h ago · updates every minute

Review score

92% positive

Very Positive18,830 reviews

Owners (est.)1M–2M

24h peak

Highest seen3,145

Aug 20242.3 years ago

Price on Steam

$4.99

Lowest ever $4.99 Oct 2026

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Players -10.5% in the last 24 hoursUpdated 13:20 UTC · tracking since 2012-07-01

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Editions and bundles on Steam

Half-Life: Blue ShiftEdition
$4.99
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Half-Life 1 AnthologyBundle
$13.71
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Reviews

92% positive of 18,830 · Very Positive · Live from Steam

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Steam Deck

Works, but may need extra effort. Results from Valve's own testing.

Steam Deck Playable

!Default controller config not fully functional
!Native resolution not supported
✓Interface text is legible
✓Default configuration is performant

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Patches & builds

Every build released on Steam for this game since we started tracking it, with the developer's patch notes. Updated within minutes of each new build.

Aug 19, 2020, 2:56 AM UTC
Build 5424832the current build when we started tracking414 MB on Windows

Patch notes

Oct 8, 2019
PatchBlue Shift update released
A Half-Life update is now available that affects Blue Shift through shared resources. Please see the Half-Life update notes for details.
Aug 21, 2018
PatchHalf-Life: Blue Shift update released
A small update for Half-Life: Blue Shift is now available: Engine Fixed bug in skybox image loading Fixed bug in demo command processing Prevent certain path characters from being used in commands Enforce certain extensions be used for files specified in some …
Jul 11, 2017
PatchHalf-Life gets new patch, almost 19 years after launch
Though Half-Life is almost nineteen years old and its sanctioned fan remake Black Mesa is nearing completion , Valve have launched a wee patch for their pretty okay or whatever vintage FPS. The patch fixes a few crashes and exploits, and hit other Half-Life en…
Jul 10, 2017
PatchHalf-Life: Blue Shift update released
We have updated the public release of Half-Life: Blue Shift. Changes in this update are: Fixed crash when entering certain malformed strings into the game console. Thanks to Marshal Webb from BackConnect, Inc for reporting this. Fixed crash when loading a spec…
Jul 10, 2017
PatchHalf-Life: Blue Shift update released
We have updated the public release of Half-Life: Blue Shift. Changes in this update are: Fixed crash when entering certain malformed strings into the game console. Thanks to Marshal Webb from BackConnect, Inc for reporting this. Fixed crash when loading a spec…
Jul 31, 2013
PatchHalf-Life: Blue Shift update released
We have updated the public release of Half-Life: Blue Shift. This update contains all the changes from the recent beta, thanks to the whole community for their help with testing and suggesting new features. Changes in this update are: Converted Half-Life: Blue…

Other news (7)

Oct 20, 2026
Для шутера Ionization на базе Half-Life вышло крупное обновление Early Access 2.0
Разработчик под ником KPE030T выпустил масштабное обновление Early Access 2.0 для сюжетного шутера Ionization. Модификация создается на движке Xash3D FWGS по мотивам оригинальной Half-Life и отправляет игрока в закрытый советский город Октябрьск образца девяно…
Oct 4, 2026
Энтузиаст выпустил нативный порт Half-Life для взломанных консолей PlayStation 5
Энтузиаст под псевдонимом GordonProsperoMan представил проект XashPS5 версии 1.0 - полноценный нативный порт шутера Half-Life для консоли PlayStation 5. Модификация создана на базе открытого движка Xash3D FWGS и библиотек hlsdk-portable, позволяя запускать про…
Dec 9, 2022
Barney returns tomorrow in Chapter 4 of Black Mesa's Blue Shift mod
If I were a security guard at Black Mesa, my head would get crabbed within minutes of a resonance cascade. Not so for Barney Calhoun, who fought his way free of the facility back in Valve's 2001 Half-Life expansion, Blue Shift . Modding team HECU Collective ha…
Nov 19, 2019
A new Half-Life would have to be VR
Like Doc Brown, I once hit my head and saw the future. I didn't come round in the bathroom having the idea for the Flux Capacitor, but I did bonk my noggin pretty hard in the office games room and sit back, dazed but delighted with what had just happened. I wa…
May 28, 2016
Have You Played Half-Life: Blue Shift?
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Gearbox’s Barney-starring add-on is the black sheep of the Half-Life family, although at the time I never encountered any reason why tha…
Oct 5, 2015
RPS Discusses: Do Expansion Packs Still Matter?

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History

What changed on Steam for this game since we started following it: prices and sales, builds, name, release date and review score.

Review score: 92% on 2026-11-01 → 92% today (18,830 reviews)

Oct 31, 2026Price$4.99

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