
Half-Life: Alyx
🛠️ Half-Life: Alyx update history
Official announcements the developer posts on Steam—patches, new content, and events—sorted by date. Click a title to read the full post.
September 2026
-
9/26Sat
-
9/18Fri🛠️ Patch / updateSeptember 17, 2026 Update
Fixed various issues where some users could not launch the game or the workshop tools. Fixed validation errors when launching the game on linux via Proton. Addressed various stability issues on all pl…
-
9/15Tue📢 AnnouncementHalf-Life: Alyx Updated for Steam Frame
This is a major update that adds support for Steam Frame standalone gameplay. Optimizations for Steam Frame Made significant rendering and performance optimizations when running on Steam Frame, updati…
January 2026
-
1/28Wed📢 AnnouncementHalf-Life: Alyx Original Soundtrack coming to vinyl and CD
After five years waiting in the vault, the Half-Life: Alyx Original Soundtrack is breaking into the physical world with new vinyl and CD releases coming April 24th. To celebrate, we're making the game…
May 2022
-
5/7Sat🛠️ Patch / update v1.5.4Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.5.4 released
Fixed transition from a1_intro_world_2 to a2_quarantine_entrance. Allowed Workshop Tag dialog to be resized. Content Build ID: 8694564
-
5/6Fri🛠️ Patch / update v1.5.3Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.5.3 released
Updated the Workshop Tag list, based upon the community's suggestions. Changed the method used to transition from a1_intro_world to a1_intro_world_2. This fixes addons being broken across that transit…
March 2021
-
3/24Wed📢 AnnouncementHalf-Life Alyx, One Year Later
It's been quite the year since we launched Half-Life: Alyx, our full-length virtual reality return to Half-Life. Shortly after its debut, we enabled Steam Workshop support to open the doors for the cr…
-
3/24Wed📢 AnnouncementExploring some favorite Half-Life: Alyx mods
As we celebrate the one-year anniversary since the launch of Half-Life: Alyx (more on that here), we thought it would be interesting to look at some of the great mods that the community have been crea…
November 2020
-
11/19Thu🛠️ Patch / update v1.5.2Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.5.2 released
Changes New honorary achievement for Gnome Chompski's upcoming journey into space on Rocket Lab's "Return To Sender" mission. Content Build ID: 5850798
-
11/18Wed🛠️ Patch / update v1.5.1Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.5.1 released
Game Fixes Fixed a case where developer commentary would appear to turn off when continuing from an autosave generated at the start of a map Correctly display commentary panel on primary hand in singl…
-
11/13Fri🛠️ Patch / updateCommentary Update
Developer Commentary contains significant spoilers. We highly recommend that you play the game to its conclusion before enabling commentary As you may recall, the Half-Life: Alyx team was in the proce…
July 2020
-
7/16Thu🛠️ Patch / update v1.4.1bHalf-Life: Alyx Update 1.4.1b released
Game Fixes Fixed recent problem preventing creating or updating new Workshop items. Content Build ID: 5292973
June 2020
-
6/17Wed🛠️ Patch / update v1.4.1aHalf-Life: Alyx Update 1.4.1a released
This update includes some small fixes discovered after the bigger 1.4.1 Update released earlier this week. Game Fixes Fixed a regression where attempting to hack a tripmine could crash. The in-game Ad…
-
6/16Tue🛠️ Patch / update v1.4.1Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.4.1 released
Game Features & FixesAdded option to turn off Valve Index pre-order weapon skins to the Preferences menu. Fixed wine bottle labels that had been regressed by the liquids update, and fixed several issu…
May 2020
-
5/28Thu🛠️ Patch / update v1.4Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.4 released
Game Features Added subtitles for: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Vietnamese Bottles now appear to have liquid inside them that sloshes around as you s…
Source: official Steam announcements (updated every 6–24 hours). Titles and summaries are copyright of the original developers.