{"id":3423,"date":"2020-01-22T23:31:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T18:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2020-01-25T11:08:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T05:38:10","slug":"half-life-games-are-free-on-steam-for-the-next-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/half-life-games-are-free-on-steam-for-the-next-two-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-Life games are free on Steam for the next two months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/half-life-games-are-free-on-steam-for-the-next-two-months\/hl\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3424\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3424\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/half-life-games-are-free-on-steam-for-the-next-two-months\/hl\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hl.jpg?fit=1199%2C695&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1199,695\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hl\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hl.jpg?fit=800%2C464&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3424\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hl.jpg?resize=300%2C174\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hl.jpg?resize=300%2C174&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hl.jpg?resize=1024%2C594&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hl.jpg?resize=768%2C445&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hl.jpg?w=1199&amp;ssl=1 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Download Half-Life, Half-Life 2, plus Episodes One and Two for free. Just in time for the release of Half-Life: Alyx in March, Valve is giving away copies of the original Half-Life games on Steam for the next two months.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/57848\/\">https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/57848\/<\/a> and select the game you want to play.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss this opportunity to play one of the classic games of all time. Make sure you install <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/about\/\">Steam<\/a> and create a free account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download Half-Life, Half-Life 2, plus Episodes One and Two for free. Just in time for the release of Half-Life: Alyx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,1,3],"tags":[717,392,716],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-app","category-article","category-blog","tag-classic","tag-game","tag-half-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgLsB5-Td","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3663,"url":"https:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/book-review-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-a-novel-about-creation-not-just-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":3423,"position":0},"title":"Book Review Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow \u2014 A Novel About Creation, Not Just Games","author":"saifuddin","date":"December 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Gabrielle Zevin\u2019s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is often described as a \u201cvideo game novel,\u201d but that framing undersells what the book truly achieves. 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