Half-Life remake Black Mesa is now ready

Black Mesa, a third-party remake of the original Half-Life video game, is now ready. With the Xen levels moving out of beta phase, the game finally hit maturity. You can find the Early Access at Steam. The team is still working on polishing the game before they switch out of Early Access. Work on this project started in 2005.

We have pushed a major patch to the Xen levels and released the full game on Steam “mainline”. This means you can play a polished and tested version of all Black Mesa without having to switch into public-beta. If you have been holding out for Xen, this is what you have been waiting for!

With this update, we not only bring the beta over to mainline, but also implement feedback to refine the difficulty, increase player guidance, fix bugs, as well as increase performance throughout the Interloper chapter. See the detailed change list below.

The game is still in Early Access (EA), so that we can get even more data and bug reports from a wider set of players and machines. We will be watching people play the game and listening to how we can further improve the game for the next big update to take us out of Early Access. In addition to polishing the levels, we want to look at the game as a whole before switching out of Early Access.

Here's a one-year old preview of the Xen levels: