Half-Life: A Place in the West overview

Overview

Half-Life: A Place in the West comes from Michael Pelletier, Ross Joseph Gardner and is published by Michael Pelletier, Ross Joseph Gardner. It arrived on Steam on Sep 29, 2016, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Commentary available, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Half-Life: A Place in the West's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 25 September 2026 - 06:58:57 UTC, with a tracked peak near 3. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 88% positive across 754 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Half-Life: A Place in the West is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Half-Life: A Place in the West has sold up to 52,784 units and has recommendation data pending. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Half-Life: A Place in the West overview details

Half-Life: A Place in the West combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Achievements Achievements are included in the first and second chapters only. The second chapter is paid-DLC. Future chapters will not feature achievements. Please note that per this post, Achievements are presently disabled as we work out a problem with the library we use. Featured DLC About the Game What is A Place in the West ? Half-Life: A Place in the West is a fan-made comic book set within Valve's acclaimed Half-Life universe. It can be read either by way of our specially built app, or as a PDF available in your Steam Directory. At a science complex in the New Mexico desert, a teleportation experiment goes very wrong, unleashing interdimensional chaos on an unsuspecting Earth. The aftershocks end with the arrival of a totalitarian order called The Combine, which forces a brutal police state on the last remnants of the occupied planet. Now, some years later, a mysterious cosmic tower has materialised in a hidden city – a tower that may prove to be humanity’s salvation, or its doom. A team of military commandos soon emerge from the city, sweeping across the American wasteland kidnapping children for an unknown purpose. In the wake of their devastation, a troubled father, an intrepid scientist, and an ancient alien warrior are each drawn to the strange city with the cosmic tower: New Franklin. Faced with warring clans, diabolical experiments, portentous dreamscapes, and the growing shadow of The Combine, they must unlock New Franklin’s mysteries before it’s too late – and the lives of everyone in the city hang in the balance. A Place in the West weaves a compelling…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Half-Life: A Place in the West is listed as a game with Free to play. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Commentary available, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 25 September 2026 - 06:58:57 UTC, a tracked peak of 3, and 88% positive reviews.

Overview tags

IndieComic BookViolentSexual ContentStory RichFree to PlaySci-fiDystopianAtmosphericGoreNudityAliensAdventureActionDrama

Content descriptors

Half-Life: A Place in the West is intended for mature audiences, containing occasional scenes of moderate violence, rare episodes of body horror, and minor nudity and sexual content, although this varies from chapter to chapter. The story deals with themes of political oppression, sexual assault, and sexual coercion.

Highlighted achievements

Support and legal notes

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