Black Mesa: Xen

Black Mesa: Xen

released on Dec 24, 2019

Black Mesa: Xen

released on Dec 24, 2019

An update for Black Mesa

Black Mesa: Xen is an update to the game Black Mesa that completely reimagined and refined the Xen levels in the single player campaign.


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Overlong and loaded with filler plug puzzles

(I guess I should review this too?)

Zen is cool and I think the game benefits from having it. Feels like a nice escalation from the rest of the game. It goes from a beautifully serene alien forest with only an occasional sign of horror to a chase down by a gonad spider ending at a completely alien factory with barely any signs of anything human. While I do enjoy this part of the game a ton they really could have cut back a bit. It loses the tension for me in Gonarch's Lair and Makes Interloper a complete slog.

Visually beautiful, annoyingly long