HarriotLovesYou
2024
A very fun Portal experience. The puzzles are good and I like the new elements they introduce. The level design is very good - there is very little chance of the player becoming hopelessly lost and having no idea where to go, which a lot of fan-made projects have the habit of falling into. This game feels very good and very professional. Its story is fine - nothing particularly earth-shattering by any means, but perfectly acceptable. I would say this is absolutely worth a play if you are into Portal, or just Valve games in general.
There's really not much to it, and what there is to it isn't particularly fun or interesting.
What an absolutely incredible game. It has a bit of a learning curve if you're used to modern games, but once you get into it, you really get into it.
This is a sandbox mod that gives you a load of wacky ways to kill scientists. Personally I don't much of any entertainment value out of killing Half-Life scientists, but if you do then you might like this mod more. I don't dislike it or anything, but it's not the sort of thing I'd go out of my way to play. I basically only played a bit of it out of obligation.
This mod is weird. Its gameplay is fine, just fine, for a while, but then in the last levels, the developer makes the absolutely bafflingly awful decision to make all of the enemies invisible. I honestly think that it goes without saying to anyone who has played a video game that invisible enemies only make for frustrating and unfair gameplay, and that's exactly what the last levels are full of. This mod is also extremely horny - there are literally just pictures of naked women plastered all over this mod. This mod is very strange and I would not recommend it.
At some points this mod can be fairly dull and boring, but although this mod is not a particular stand-out, I can still appreciate it for what it is. Might be worth a shot if you're into Half-Life mods, but if you ended up dropping it, I would understand why.
2000
First off, play this mod on normal difficulty, it's not balanced for hard. This mod is fairly mediocre - its gameplay is not the worst, but it's not all that enjoyable either. A substantial portion of this mod involves dragging two scientists around with you which can be very frustrating (as I'm sure you can imagine, if you've played Half-Life). The mod has two diverging paths, neither of which are particularly good - you can either revisit the surface portion of We've Got Hostiles, or revisit the Alien Controller fight from the end of Lambda Core (my personal least favorite part of Half-Life). The Controller fight is the worse of the two options, but the other option is not particularly fun or interesting either. This isn't an awful mod per se, but it is below average.
This is the kind of game that is intentionally designed to frustrate the player. If that's your kind of thing, you might like this mod. I don't.
2010
Not particularly good. Fairly mediocre gameplay mixed in with some poor level design decisions. Its main redeeming quality is the occasional ironic entertainment value, but outside of that this mod does not have very much to offer.
2005
This mod is not particularly good, nor is it aggressively bad. Visually, the mod looks fairly decent. But it's pretty boring to play through. It's also weirdly horny - the female assassins have had their textures edited to give them exposed cleavage, and there are a lot of images of boobs all throughout the mod. It's a very mid mod overall.
Not very good. Half of this game is fighting against the awful geometry, it's poorly designed and very easy to get stuck on. The weapons are so ridiculously overpowered that the game is a complete cakewalk even on hard difficulty. The story is completely insane and I had no idea what going on at any given time. The voice-acted protagonist is annoying and not funny. Very few redeeming qualities of this mod other than its somewhat unique presentation.
A solid and fun mod that looks and plays good. There are a few somewhat flawed sections, primarily the final boss which is not terribly fun. However, I would still give this mod a positive rating and recommend it to anyone who is interested in playing Half-Life mods.
2011
Surprisingly a really cool mod. Very cool aesthetic pulled off very well, generally interesting gameplay, great sound and level design - the only nitpick I would have is that the puzzle at the end does not really make a lot of sense, but the rest of the mod (as short as it is) I think makes up for it. Oh, also the protagonist speaks entirely in Spanish, which obviously isn't a flaw with the mod but I personally didn't understand what he was saying, so I may have missed some instructions somewhere. Still, pretty cool mod overall.
2016
This mod is mid. The level design is somewhat weak and also plain, there are loads of invisible walls used to arbitrarily restrict your progress, the encounters seem to have very little thought put into them - just a not so good experience.
2012
I wish this mod was good. The aesthetics and visuals this mod is going for are quite impressive, and I think that somewhere under here there could be a really solid mod. But it's just full of the most frustrating and unintuitive level design I've seen in a mod. Feels like it was barely playtested.