

This lengthy, ambitious mod swings from horror to all-out action. Obviously, said ordinary man soon acquires a gun and starts killing people, but you might snap too if you called that dystopia home. Two-part mod The Citizen provides a new angle on the world, casting you as an ordinary oppressed citizen of City 17. Gordon Freeman ends the Half-Life series as a crowbar-wielding superhero, a figure of legend in the Half-Life universe. Mission Improbable sends you on a mission to repair a Resistance radio tower.

You begin the game strapped to the underside of a helicopter, before being dropped on a mysterious island with a sinister secret. It’s a sizeable story, about the length of an official chapter, with considered level design and a high level of polish.

The original Source mod was later expanded into a full game.ĭownload: ModDB, Steam Minerva: MetastasisĪdam Foster’s Minerva comes close to the quality of Valve’s own Half-Life 2 Episodes-in fact, Valve was so impressed Foster joined the company. As Stanley-or, perhaps more accurately, as the player controlling Stanley-you’re free to follow or ignore the various instructions the wonderful narrator bellows over you, resulting in a tangled, branching story that rewards your curiosity, imagination, and defiance. Or rather, it’s the story of the story: a deviously clever, reactive adventure that second-guesses your every move. This is the story of a man named Stanley.
