This Is Why We Never Stopped Modding Half-Life

Half-Life came out in 1998, yet in 2025, the modding scene is still thriving. From horror classics like Cry of Fear to bizarre meme mods, Half-Life never really died… it just kept evolving.

In this video, I dive into how GoldSrc modding began, why it exploded in the early 2000s, and why people are still creating Half-Life content today, more than 25 years later.

Mods featured include: Action Half-Life, Wanted!, Gunman Chronicles, Counter-Strike, They Hunger, Black Mesa: Classic, Crack-Life, Echoes, Backrooms, Solitary Echoes, Half-Rats, Day of Defeat, and more.

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00:00 Half-Life is still ALIVE!
00:32 The State of Half-Life Mods
01:12 How Half-Life and GoldSrc Modding Started?
03:28 Why Modding Thrived?
04:51 Half-Life's Visuals are Charming
05:58 The Six Years Before Half-Life 2
08:11 Half-Life Mods in 2025
09:42 How I Feel About Mods
10:51 Outro