Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Alyx…
Half-Life: Alyx is an adventure developed by Valve, released 23 March 2020 on SteamVR. This page lists 14 cheat codes for it.
What Half-Life: Alyx is
Half-Life: Alyx is an adventure game developed by Valve and released in 2020. It is available on SteamVR only. It runs on Source 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival. The Combine’s control of the planet since the Black Mesa incident has only strengthened as they corral the remaining population in cities. Among them are some of Earth’s greatest scientists: you and your father, Dr. Eli Vance. As founders of a fledgling resistance, you’ve continued your clandestine scientific activity—performing critical research, and building invaluable tools for the few humans brave enough to defy the Combine. Every day, you learn more about your enemy, and every day you work toward finding a weakness.
How it plays
It is played from a virtual reality perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 42 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Half-Life series
Half-Life: Alyx is the 23rd of 24 entries we hold in the Half-Life series. The next entry was Black Mesa: Definitive Edition in 2020. Its critic score of 93 is 16 points above the series average of 77. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Half-Life: Alyx holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 20 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 93, across 265 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 14 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 21 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core i5-7500 / Ryzen 5 1600, 12 GB RAM and GTX 1060 / RX 580 - 6GB VRAM. A 12GB memory requirement is demanding — worth checking before you buy, because 8GB is still common in older and budget machines.
What it launched against
Half-Life: Alyx launched on 23 March 2020, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII Remake, Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII Remake, Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Cheats and codes
We have tested and published 14 cheat entries for Half-Life: Alyx — 13 console commands and 1 tip. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 4 videos →
Screenshots
All media
Every code labelled
Half-Life: Alyx cheat codes
Enable the Cheat Console
Unlocks the developer console and the cheats behind it
Right-click the game in Steam, choose Properties, add -console -vconsole to Launch Options, then press ~ in-game and type sv_cheats 1
Console appears on your PC monitor, not inside the VR headset
God Mode
Take no damage from any attack
Type god in the console
Survive Any Hit
You still take damage but cannot die
Type buddha in the console
All Weapons and Resin
Grants every weapon plus 20 resin
Type impulse 101 in the console
Quick answers
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