Half-Life (1998)

All time rank: 30 of 1,400
1990s rank: 10 of 364
1998 rank: 3 of 42
List appearances: 61 lists
Developer: Valve
Platform: Windows PC
Genre: First-Person Shooter
Series: Half-Life
Wikipedia: Wikipedia
IGDB: IGDB
HowLongToBeat: HowLongToBeat
Main: ~12h
Main+Extra: ~14h
100%: ~16h
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Half-Life

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All time 53
2026 Digitec Galaxus
The 100 best games of all time #15
2025 FZ
FZ utser de 100 bästa spelen genom tiderna! #41
2025 Multiplayer.it
I 100 migliori videogiochi della storia #68
2023 British GQ
The 100 greatest video games of all time, ranked by experts #52
2023 GameStar
Die 300 besten PC-Spiele: Das große Ranking #11
2023 Kinopoisk
100 великих игр #13
2022 Gamereactor
Best Ever: Spel #3
2022 IGN
The Top 100 Video Games of All Time #31
2019 IGN
Top 100 Video Games of All Time #22
2019 Video Gamer
Les 100 Plus Grands Jeux Video de Tous les Temps #1
2018 Game Informer
The Top 300 Games of All Time #103
2018 GameStar
Die 250 besten PC-Spiele aller Zeiten - Das große GameStar-Ranking #10
2018 IGN
Top 100 Video Games of All Time #22
2018 Slant Magazine
The 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time #81
2017 Gamereactor
Gamereactor's Top 100 bedste spil nogensinde #49
2017 Jeuxvideo
Top 100 des meilleurs jeux de tous les temps #1
2017 Polygon
The 500 best games of all time #52
2016 Digitally Downloaded
The top 100 of all time! #55
2016 Gameswelt
Gameswelt Top 100 #8
2016 Power Up Gaming
The 100 Greatest Games Ever #53
2015 IGN
Top 100 Games of All Time #26
2015 Power Unlimited
Top 100 Beste Video Games Aller Tijden #32
2013 GamingBolt
Top 100 greatest video games ever made #6
2013 NA
1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die #1
2013 PC and Tech Authority
100 games to play before you die #1
2012 Complex
The 50 Best PC Games Of All Time #29
2012 G4
Top 100 Video Games of All Time #16
2012 Gameswelt
Gameswelt Top 100 #4
2012 Jeux Video Network / Jeux Video Magazine
L'intégralité des 100 meilleurs jeux vidéo de l'histoire dévoilée ! #2
2011 Gamereactor
Game Reactor top 100 #2
2011 GamesRadar+
The 100 best games of all time #33
2011 Jeuxvideo
Les 100 meilleurs jeux de tous les temps #36
2009 Benchmark.pl
100 najlepszych gier XX wieku #1
2009 Empire
The 100 Greatest Games #29
2009 Game Informer
The Top 200 Games Of All Time #29
2009 Jeux Video Network / Jeux Video Magazine
Les 100 meilleurs jeux vidéo de tous les temps #2
2008 GamePro
The 32 Best PC Games #25
2007 Computer and Video Games
The 101 best PC games ever #5
2007 IGN
The Top 100 Games of All Time #26
2006 NA
Game On! The 50 Greatest Video Games Of All Time #1
2005 IGN
IGN's Top 100 Games #22
2005 Yahoo! UK
The 100 Greatest Computer Games of All Time #39
2003 Entertainment Weekly
We rank the 100 greatest early video games #6
2003 GameSpot
The Greatest Games of All Time #1
2003 IGN
IGN's Top 100 Games of All Time #32
2002 The Sydney Morning Herald
Top 50 video games of all time #2
2001 GameSpy
GameSpy's Top 50 Games of All Time #2
2000 CNET
The Top 40 Games of the Millennium #2
2000 Edge
The 100 best games of all time #9
2000 GameSpot
GameSpot's 100 Games of the Millennium #20
1999 Hyper
The Top 50 Games of All Time #30
1999 Next Generation
The Fifty Best Games of All Time #14
1999 The Independent
The 50 Best Video games: A Legend In Your Own Living-Room #1
Decade 3
2025 Game Two
Die 20 BESTEN GAMES der 90er! #15
2021 The Guardian
The 15 greatest video games of the 1990s – ranked #3
2009 GameSpy
GameSpy's 25 Favorite PC Games of the '90s #2
Miscellaneous 2
2023 Edge
The 100 Greatest Games of Edge's Lifetime #30
2008 Entertainment Weekly
The 50 best videogames from 1983 to 2008 #18
End of year 3
2021 Goomba Stomp
The Best Games of the 1990s (1998) #2
1999 BAFTA
Game of the Year 1999 #2
1999 D.I.C.E. Awards
Game of the Year 1998 #2

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