5 Epic VTOL VR Campaigns for the F/A-26B That You’ll Love

Did you know that VTOL VR has an absolute ton of free community made singleplayer content? Here are just a few of the many free enjoyable singleplayer campaigns for the F/A-26B.

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Sky Wars

Flying over a city in the Sky Wars VTOL VR singleplayer campaign.

Let's start off with the highly rated Sky Wars. If you couldn't tell from the logo, this campaign by Fyrcat is very loosely based on the Star Wars movies, though everyone will still be using the usual VTOL VR aircraft instead of X-Wings and TIE fighters.

There's a story here, also loosely inspired by Star Wars, except instead of fighting an evil empire the enemy are the Oil Cartels. Though that's not really very important, really this is all just a vehicle for some vaguely Star Wars themed missions and opportunities for the campaign author to use a few sound bytes from the movies.

Not to spoil too much, but there is a sort of Death Star Trench scene, and you even get to be Red 5! Of course even if the Star Wars references don't sound all that appealing, this is a pretty great campaign for the F/A-26 that can be difficult without being unapproachably hard.

Strafing a ground target with guns in Sky Wars.

Though I did run into some bugs and failed triggers once or twice. Such as during an escort mission. The transport to be escorted ended up just flying in circles when a batch of enemy planes were supposed to spawn. Also, the author does have a habit of spawning enemy planes extremely close to you.

This is probably to force you to have intense close ranged dog fights instead of the usual AIM-120 missile duels. While this worked sometimes, most of the time it just ended up feeling cheap and unfair to suddenly be barraged with multiple close ranged missiles from a place that had been completely threat free moments ago.

The trench scene in the Sky Wars VTOL VR campaign.

Regardless, Sky Wars is a great campaign that is full of memorable and unique missions. I highly recommend it, and if you're a Star Wars fan then you'll get some fun references and chuckles out of it too.

Operation Tollgate

Striking ground targets as other explosions go off in the Operation Tollgate VTOL VR campaign for the F/A-26B.

Next let's talk about a campaign that is pretty new and, highly underrated, Operation Tollgate for the F/A-26 by Liao and Zulu.

I'm shocked there aren't more subscriptions and positive ratings for this campaign, because it is an absolutely fantastically varied and creative campaign for the F/A-26. The maps are an even mix of water and land, which gives a lot of opportunities to face enemy naval and land based units, just as the missions themselves are a fantastic mix of anti air and anti ground.

You might be fairly used to the standard for VTOL VR missions, well Operation Tollgate has some missions where things get really switched up in creative ways.

Like one mission where you must hit some enemy ground targets while evading the Combat Air Patrol above, or another mission where you can't rearm, and can only refuel at a tanker, so you better use your ammunition efficiently.

Flying up to a tanker in Operation Tollgate.

The briefings are thorough, and even have a nice section that recommends a loadout to you in case you're unsure. You also start with relatively primitive munitions compared to the AIM-120Cs, AGM-65s, and AIRS-Ts that you might be used to.

Instead you'll have to make do with AIM-7s and Sidewinders for a while, but when you complete enough missions and you get access to better munitions it really feels like you earned them, and like you need them.

The missions in Operation Tollgate have a very smooth difficulty curve, getting harder as you get better tools to tackle them with, and some missions even have unexpected curveballs and priority targets thrown your way when you might expect it to already be complete.

Defending an airfield from a night attack.

If you want missions that feel unique and have a fair mix of air and ground combat then try out Operation Tollgate. It really deserves more attention than it has gotten.

Artemis Campaign

The Artemis Campaign has the most detailed map I've ever seen in a VTOL VR singleplayer campaign.

Our third singleplayer campaign is the Artemis Campaign by Judge Dredd. The first thing that struck me about this campaign was the map. It is the most well made and detailed map I've seen for any VTOL VR campiagn, and it was actually not made by Judge Dredd, but a different person called ddDeath_666.

This map, called Greek Islands, has numerous cities, settlements, and airfields spread out on several islands. The terrain itself is wonderfully blended so that it looks natural, and the settlements have suburbs, downtown areas, and even remote buildings all connected by roads.

The campaign itself focuses mostly on a single large island, and there are some really great missions here, alongside a few lackluster ones where not much happens and you'll find yourself flying over the water for long periods of time. Still, the missions that are good in this campaign are impressive.

A low level airstrike on an airfield.

Though the odd thing about the Artemis Campaign is that it gets easier as you progress through the missions, rather than harder, the first three missions are actually the best and most impressive of the bunch. The later missions are still good, don't get me wrong, but don't have the same level of challenge and spectacle as the first ones.

Oh, and I do like the thought of only giving the player limited saves in this campaign, this is a great way to add some interesting challenge to missions by making the player wonder when they should use their limited pool of saves. It was a nice change of pace to get out of the habit of saving every five minutes just in case.

Liberation of Kuwait F/A-26

Monitoring a friendly target in the Liberation of Kuwait VTOL VR singleplayer campaign.

Our next campaign is the Liberation of Kuwait F/A-26 campaign by Judge Dredd, not to be confused with a similarly named campaign for the AH-94 (which is also excellent). These missions are very loosely based on the air war and following ground invasion of the nation of Kuwait, which was then occupied by the Iraqi military, during Operation Desert Storm.

The first mission starts off slowly with the some aerial reconnaissance using your TGP, and the rest is a tight series of four bombing and close air support missions.

That's almost entirely the focus of this campaign, close air support and strikes using smart munitions. You'll be spending a lot of time watching prospective targets or friendly forces with your TGP before getting the order on whether or not to engage. Despite not being a very difficult campaign it's a ton of fun and very tightly designed.

The map in the Liberation of Kuwait mod could use a little more detail, but it is serviceable.

The map is a little barren and not the best approximation of Kuwait out there, but the missions do a great job of integrating friendly forces into your objectives.

When you support friendly forces you'll also see those friendlies fighting on the ground, and so the missions really sell that you are giving vital support to real troops below. The missions are well made, immersive, and not overly intense. Mostly you only have to make sure to stay out of MANPAD and AAA range.

If you want a little leisurely precision bombing in missions polished enough to feel like they could be DLC, then give the Liberation of Kuwait campaign a try. Though, expect to spend a lot of time looking at the ground with your TGP.

Surveying an allied attack on a destroyed bunker complex.

Oh, and this campaign does have some fun little touches, like this guy who you are told to stop for to arm your weapons each time you fly a combat mission. Very cool. This is a very well polished and scripted campaign that does a good job of making you feel like part of an operation involving other units.

Defenders Of Kyiv

Defending an allied airfield with a low level airstrike in the Defenders Of Kyiv VTOL VR singleplayer campaign.

The last singleplayer campaign here is based on the still active Russo-Ukrainian war. Defenders of Kyiv by Innocence Of Children focuses on a small group of fighter pilots just before and during the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the northern Kyiv front.

The Russian military attempted to pull off a high risk and high speed operation to quickly capture Kyiv and force the Ukrainian government to flee or capitulate. In this campaign you are part of the Ukrainian military forces that prevented this from happening.

The thing that makes the Defenders of Kyiv campaign stand out from all other custom singleplayer campaigns in VTOL VR, even more so than its setting, are the wingmen that you fly with. Both are actually characters, with dialog and personalities. In fact there's a lot of dialog in these missions.

Your two wingmen, Joker and Queen, go from corny to dramatic very quickly when the invasion starts. Their banter fills out the quiet moments and gives each mission a greater sense of context and drama.

Your wingmen are actual characters in this campaign.

While English is clearly not the author's first language and there are a lot of minor errors in the script, the intent of the writing is a solid story, and the character drama hits as hard as the missions do. In terms of story and drama the Defenders of Kyiv campaign has to be the best one out there.

This campaign also severely limits what equipment you will have access to, especially earlier on. While you'll never get all of the fancy ultra modern missiles and ground attack munitions that you'll have access to in normal play, limiting you to less sophisticated weapons makes the campaign more difficult throughout, and changes the usual flow of air to air fights. It also changes how you engage ground targets, and unfortunately not in the best way.

Using old weapons means you'll be resorting to guns more than ever in the Defenders Of Kyiv VTOL VR campaign.

While being forced to rely on dumb bombs and missiles more than usual is interesting, it's more annoying than anything when you receive objectives to destroy fifty targets... and then even more after that.

While ostensibly you'll have your wingmen and other allied units helping you, they'll inevitably end up being shot down or run out of ammo before chewing through so many enemy ground targets. This leaves you using all your muntiions up over and over and needing to fly back to base a bunch of times to actually complete the objective. This gets kind of tedious, and I wish you didn't get such a massive amount of ground targets to take out at once.

Still, the briefings have great detail, and the battles on the ground are absolutely massive and impressive. This campaign felt really unique and fresh in a lot of ways. I highly recommend it.

If you've got a campaign for any aircraft that you think deserves playing then feel free to let me know in the comments. Have fun flying out there in VTOL VR.

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9 Ways To Terrorize A City In Monster: Titan’s Playground - A Great VR Godzilla Game

If you find yourself as a giant Kaiju Godzilla type monster in the brilliant Virtual Reality game Monster: Titan’s Playground then here's 11 ways to absolutely terrorize this little city. This is an amazing VR Godzilla game where you’re a massive monster just smashing your way through a city. Here’s how.

#1

The first way is to establish dominance by leaping along the city streets and on top of apartment buildings. The slam of your huge feet hitting the ground will surely strike terror into the hearts of the population.

You can even do a sort of VR King Kong type move by climbing a high tower.

If you want a more classically inspired monster invading city experience then you can always climb a tall office building, or even the massive monument across town, and throw stuff down at the locals.

#2

Of course buildings are for more than just climbing, they're definitely also for smashing. There's nothing like the look and feel of ramming your huge meaty kaiju fists through an apartment block.

Smashing a building with your huge VR Godzilla fists in Monster: Titan's Playground is amazing.

Or pounding your way from the roof to the foundations of a building. As a giant VR Godzilla monster you have the strength to easily blast through concrete and rebar like it's barely even there, laying waste to buildings in mere moments. This is absurdly fun.

#3

Though as you're terrorizing the city you should also make sure that the streets also aren't safe by destroying every form of transporation that you see.

The massive explosion made by a car in Monster: Titan's Playground.

Inadvertently, you also might help out the local environment and reduce pollution, though probably not by as much as the carbon emissions caused by the explosion a car makes when it hits a building and carves out a huge hole in the side. These cars make some seriously huge explosions.

Maybe they use the same engines as the cars from Fallout 4, especially since eating them will make you heal faster. Don't ask why.

#4

While you're throwing things you can also tear out chunks of buildings and throw them at other buildings, which is a weirdly efficient way to do some demolition work. There's just something majestic about seeing someone's living room bounce off of several other buildings and then careen off into the distance.

Throwing pieces of buildings into other buildings is such a satisfying VR Kaiju Monster move.

Tearing huge chunks out of buildings is so easy with your huge monster hands.

#5

That is, if you're not interrupted by the elephant in the street, and that's these annoying mechs from Super Mech Force that are always trying to stop your good time of smashing buildings and generally lowering property values. Though at the end of the day a city that doesn't fight back wouldn't be much fun.

There will be a lot of mechs to fight in this game.

Though there's got to be nothing more scary to your average onlooker than seeing the giant Godzilla monster pummel the mechs defending your city into the dirt. Or punching one in the chest so hard its reactor core explodes and sends mech pieces flying everywhere.

#6

While you're at it you can also use those destroyed mechs to take down huge buildings. Tossing the body of a mech meant to defend this city into a building is extremely ironic, and also super destructive.

Of course mechs can also be used to smash things for fun.

#7

Of course you'll have more at your disposal than just your fists to stop those pesky mechs and do some large scale remodeling. Your massive kaiju monster also comes with many equipment options ranging from arm mounted plasma cannons that melt armor and blast holes in buildings to shoulder mounted mini guns that will absolutely tear through a mech.

Blasting a mech with miniguns in Monster: Titan's Playground. You're not just VR Godzilla, you're a Mech VR Godzilla.

You're not just any giant lizard monster, you're a giant lizard monster sponsored by the finest minds at the SECRET EVIL LAB. Destroy more mechs and you get more upgrades, and wow are there a lot to try.

#8

Though as you start to face more advanced mechs you'll notice that their weaponry will get more dangerous as well. Don't worry though, because they seem to care just as little for the city they are fighting you over as you do. When the huge lasers come out you're practically required to hide behind some high rises to avoid it.

Mechs with huge lasers are scary, and they don't care if they destroy the city while trying to get you.

Bombs and missiles that Super Mech Force lobs at you can be snatched out of the air and thrown right back at them, or if you're particularily destructive you can always chuck them at buildings on purpose, or by accident.

#9

Of course you're not really a kaiju monster if you don't have some really deadly breath, and there's no way to assert dominance over a city more spectacular than setting fire to everything in sight with a massive jet of flame coming out of your mouth.

Nothing makes you feel more like an amazing VR Kaiju than breathing fire over the city.

The flamethrower coming out of your throat is so massive that it obstructs your view and quickly spread over anything that it hits, mechs, buildings, and passerby alike. Now that's how you terrorize a city as a VR Kaiju.

Want to get to attack a city as a huge VR Godzilla monster yourself? Then wishlist the game! At the time of writing, Monster: Titan's Playground is unreleased, but can be wishlisted on Steam.

I did receive a copy of this for free from the developer, and I ended up absolutely loving it and really want to see them add more features and more variation to the environments, among other things. So if terrorizing a city and fighting mechs as a VR lizard monster sounds fun to you then go to the steam page linked in the description and click the wishlist button. It's free and it would really help out a small developer with a fantastic idea for a Virtual Reality game.

VTOL VR - How To Use AH-94 Countermeasures

Here’s how to use the countermeasures (flares and chaff) in the AH-94 helicopter in VTOL VR.

Grab the combat collective stick. You’ll notice that there are two sticks on the collective lever to the left of your seat, one on top of the other. The combat collective is the one on top.

The combat collective in the AH-94 is used to release flares and chaff countermeasures.

Now hold down the trigger on the controller of the hand that is grabbing the combat collective and press the Y/B button (the higher of the two buttons on the controller) to release your countermeasures.

That’s how to use countermeasures in the AH-94. Remember that you can also turn off flares or chaff by clicking the green flare or chaff buttons on the dashboard to the left of the collective lever. Also remember that you can configure chaff and flare release modes by pressing the CMS button on an MFD.

The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Aftershocks Walkthrough and Guide - Part 6 - Memorial Lane

Stuck in The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners: Aftershocks? Wondering where to go next? Maybe you just like to see what is in store for you before you get there, or want to look back and see if you missed anything in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners: Aftershocks.

Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered with this complete walkthrough. These articles will detail how to progress through the main story missions as quickly as possible, with a couple of guiding tips thrown in here and there to make your adventure smoother.

Last time we followed a bunch of clues to the cache in Old Town. Today we’ll be recovering the sixth national guard cache, which the Tower and Reclaimed are fighting over on Memorial Lane.

This guide assumes that you are starting Aftershocks with the "Aftershocks Quickstart” option in the main menu. If you’re playing Aftershocks after completing the main campaign then some details might be slightly different, but the challenges you face in the missions will be the same.

If you are missing some of the recipes then you can still pick them up while doing the missions in this walkthrough, though they won’t be explicitly pointed out here. For a full list of all recipes in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, check out our recipe guide article.

Spoilers will be as light as possible, but there will be story spoilers by necessity in this walkthrough. There won’t be any explanation of what is going on in the story beyond what is necessary to make the walkthrough make sense.

The Resting Place

Wake up and listen to Channel 47 as always, but beware that you might want to do a bit more prep than usual this time.

The task to get the cache in Memorial Lane.

For your trip to Memorial Lane you’re probably going to get shot much more than usual, so make sure to bring at least 2 bandages, probably 3 to be safe. Oh, and bring a lot of firepower and ammunition too. You may find yourself fighting through a ton of enemies.

Especially for this mission make sure to craft a bit of every type of item and store it in your base. That means food, ammo, weapons, meds, and anything else you might ever need. You’ve definitely got a ton of crafting supplies by now, so turn them into some useful stuff before you head off on this mission. You won’t regret it.

When you’re armed to the teeth and have your healing items ready in your backpack head off to Memorial Lane.

Traveling to Memorial Lane.

The Battle Of Memorial Lane

When you arrive in Memorial Lane it may be suspiciously quiet… that won’t last long.

Take a look at your map.

The map of Memorial Lane.

See that tree icon in the center of the map? That’s the battlefield that not only contains the cache, but also a bunch of Reclaimed and Tower soldiers fighting each other to the death over it. At least they’ll start spawning in and fighting when you get close enough.

For now make your way down Garrison street towards the house marked as blue on your map. There will be some tower guards in front of it.

The Blue House is lightly guarded.

While they won’t be initially hostile feel free to just blast your way through them to get inside of the house. Once inside head up to the second floor.

There will be another guard or two in there. Take them out before you settle down in this room, which contains a hunting rifle, some ammo and junk on the table, and a picture which shows you a picture of a national guard crate with a number on it.

This room shows you which cache is the correct one, and can be used for a little sniping as well.

There are a bunch of caches all over the battlefield below, but most of them are empty. Only one contains supplies and that is cache number 41. It is located on the red couch right beside the tree in the center of the battlefield.

Of course it’s a battlefield, and as you’ll be able to see through the hole in the wall leading outside, there are Tower and Reclaimed soldiers fighting over it (or possibly just standing around, depending on how it worked out for you.)

Regardless you’ll have to make your way down there. The problem is that soldiers will just keep spawning after they are killed. Infinitely.

So you can pick off a few from your perch in the house with the rifle if you like, but eventually you’re going to have to run down there and get to that cache.

Cache 41 itself, which is full of loot for you.

This is where the medical items come in. Once you open the cache there will be quite a bit of loot inside, and more soldiers will spawn and run in right to where you are as you try and grab it.

So you will need to balance grabbing the supplies in the cache with healing yourself. If you’d rather just leave with your skin intact you can also always just open the cache and then leave right after. It’s up to you, but this is definitely the hardest cache to actually loot.

Once you’ve got the goods run back over to the blue house that you started at and back up Garrison street to the boat you arrived in.

Something’s Wrong In The Resting Place

Once you return back to The Resting Place and walk back towards the bus you’ll hear some strange noises. Like somebody… tinkering? Rifling through things?

You’ll quickly realize what it is when you see two tower soldiers running away from your bus.

Thieves!

They’ve taken all of your crafting materials, and on top of that even your sleeping flask! Luckily any items that you’ve already stored inside of your bus are still left behind.

Well that just won’t stand. So read the next part of this The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Aftershocks walkthrough to get your flask, and some of your stuff, back.

17 Amazing Half-Life: Alyx Mods That Give You More Of The Game For Free

Half-Life: Alyx is widely recognized as one of the best VR games out there, and is a prime example of what a well designed AAA quality game can look like on Virtual Reality.

Unfortunately, Half-Life: Alyx was released years ago and hasn’t received any new official content for quite a while. So once you’ve mastered the main campaign of the game you might get bored with it.

Luckily the developers at Valve also released fantastic modding and level creation tools along with the main game, and many talented and dedicated modders are here to fill the content gap for Half-Life: Alyx.

So here are 17 Amazing Half-Life: Alyx Mods that will add more levels and content to the game for you to play through. These Half-Life: Alyx custom campaigns are some of the best around and will surely give you more good times in this fantastic VR game.

You’re guaranteed to have a good time with any of these HL:A Campaign-Likes.

Gunman Contracts Chapters 1 And 2

The logo for the first chapter of the Gunman Contracts Half-Life: Alyx mod.

No list of Half-Life: Alyx mods or Half-Life: Alyx custom levels can be complete without Gunman Contracts Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.

You might have seen this game referred to as a “John Wick” game, and that is an extremely accurate description for it. The Gunman Contracts mods pits you and your custom pistol against armed human goons, henchmen, and thugs just like John Wick in the movies.

You’ve got a mission to complete, and a ton of enemies in your way that you’ll have to fight through. Gunman Contracts does a great job of using Half-Life: Alyx’s Source 2 engine in a more true to life setting, and staging interesting, fast paced, dynamic, and intense firefights for you to enjoy.

Instead of fighting through alien infested ruins and ancient metro tunnels, Gunman Contracts has you blasting through windows in high rises and bottles of booze in bars. It’s great, and makes you feel faster and more powerful than you do in the base game, but also throws many more enemies at you.

If you want some fast paced urban shooting action in a Half-Life: Alyx mod, then give Gunman Contracts a try. The author of this mod is even working on a standalone VR game as well.

Half-Life: Incursion

The logo for the Half-Life: Incursion Half-Life Alyx mods.

Half-Life: Incursion places you in a small area of the Quarantine Zone surrounding City 17 and throws waves of combine soldiers at you.

You’ve only got so much time to scrounge of ammo and prepare your defenses, like placing tripwire mines, before another attack comes. They start out easily enough, but get harder and harder.

Luckily you won’t only get more supplies, but better weaponry as the waves get tougher. Survive them all and you’ll win. Half-Life: Incursion lets you get really crafty with your defense. You can lure soldiers into traps or try to evade and confuse them in the narrow alleys and city streets.

The attack waves are very well designed and varied, and there is even some excellent voiceover work to enjoy as well in Half-Life: Incursion.

Return To Rapture

The logo for the Return To Rapture Half-Life Alyx mods.

Remember Rapture from the first two Bioshock games? Well now you can return to it in Virtual Reality in Return To Rapture.

That’s right, the combine have invaded Rapture and so now so will you. What is absolutely fantastic about this mod is how it transfers so much of the environment, gameplay, and vibe of Bioshock into Half-Life: Alyx.

There are all sorts of old favorites to enjoy from Vita Chambers to Plasmids. So if you want to experience Bioshock VR then try this mod. It is incredibly expansive, well made, and a creative combination of two game worlds.

Levitation

The logo for the Levitation Half-Life: Alyx Mod.

Half-Life: Alyx - Levitation feels like a continuation of the main campaign of Half-Life: Alyx both in terms of tone and quality.

Set right after the events of the main game, the story really kicks off when Alyx looks for two fellow resistance members investigating a mysterious floating building. Things escalate from there, and you’ll find yourself facing new challenges, seeing new fantastic sights, and enjoying yourself immensely.

Levitation is huge for a mod project at easily four hours in length, and is visually stunning in places, while also being a fun challenge for those who have already completed Half-Life: Alyx. It really feels like a continuation of the main campaign, despite being a mod.

Goldeneye Alyx 007

The logo for the Goldeneye Alyx 007 Half-Life Alyx mods.

Remember the Nintendo 64 classic Goldeneye? Well the authors of Goldeneye Alyx 007 certainly do, and they’ve been busy recreating maps from the classic James Bond Goldeneye game in Half-Life: Alyx.

As far as Half-Life: Alyx mod ideas go, this is pretty ambitious considering the scale and detail of the maps recreated here, but the mod authors pulled off recreating those old areas with detail very well. Not to mention they’ve managed to fill them with great combat and exploration challenges.

Whether you want to relive some Goldeneye nostalgia or just want a fun series of James Bond themed maps to play through, check out this mod.

Hotline Alyx

The logo for the Hotline Alyx Half-Life: Alyx mod.

If you’ve ever heard of the top down shooter Hotline Miami then you probably recognize the reference in the title of Hotline Alyx.

Everything, the masks, the music, the gritty 80s easthetic, and of course the fast and frantic combat of Hotline Miami are recreated here in Virtual Reality in this Half-Life: Alyx mod. There’s even a story, just like in Hotline Miami.

Each level is challenging, packed with enemies, fast paced, and a true challenge of your reflexes and tactics. You’ll also have to be very careful with your ammunition usage, so precision is key. Though you can always use melee weapons.

That’s right, this mod has melee weapons and they’re… okay. Still, it’s very impressive that they work at all. Hotline Alyx is impressive from how it includes such unique features and ties them together into a frantic package of VR close quarters shooting carnage.

From Here To There

A screenshot of part of the secret lab in the From Here To There mod.

If you want an entirely new story set in the Half-Life universe with a long campaign, new enemies, and new mechanics, then you’ve got to give From Here To There a try.

This is a very long Half-Life: Alyx mod that can run you up to 8 hours. It is fantastic, and you’re also a different character, Dr. Smithers from Half-Life 1.

After the Black Mesa incident Dr. Smithers works as a custodian and has a secret laboratory underground. In case you’re wondering, yes the secret lab is amazing, and there are a ton of experiments to play with. In fact there are a ton of new toys to interact with in From Here To There.

It’s got new weapons, a new story, and so much creativity on display for such a long run time. There are even some sections that will require puzzle solving skills and creativity. There is a ton of additional content in this mod, and it is all of very high quality.

Re-Education

The logo for the Re-Education Half-Life Alyx mod.

Re-Education is a more slow paced mod that focuses on exploration, environmental storytelling, and taking things slowly.

In it you, as Alyx once more, make your way through an abandoned school in order to get to the safe house on the other side of it. Things start off inauspiciously at first, but as you get further into the Zen infested school things get more dangerous.

Why? There’s yet another Jeff inside of the school, but as far as Jeff encounters go this one was a much more creative use of the monster. Re-Education is a solid 45 minutes to hour of Half-Life: Alyx modded gameplay for when you want to do more careful exploring than shooting.

Cornered

Combine soldiers preparing to breach your apartment in the Cornered Half-Life: Alyx mod.

In Cornered Alyx is laying low inside of an Apartment building. You wake up to an alarm and poke around your temporary apartment.

There you’ve got plenty of weapons and supplies, that you should definitely gather up quickly, but soon the combine find you and blast through the walls and front door to attack you.

This mod is extremely difficult, and the combine throw everything they’ve got at you. Though at the same time you’ve got a lot of weaponry and ammunition to fight them with. While you might die a lot, this mod is a real test of your close quarters combat skills in Alyx, and the feeling of relief when you fight your way out is fantastic.

Goon Squad

The logo for the Goon Squad Alyx mod.

Want to be a combine soldier in Half-Life: Alyx? Well now you can in the Goon Squad mod.

You and the other members of your squad are exploring an old underground sewer within the Quarantine Zone when things suddenly go very wrong.

Can you survive as a lone combine soldier cut off and without support?

The Undertow

The nightclub from The Undertow, a highlight of this Half-Life: Alyx mod.

So you’re going to a nightclub with a briefcase, and you’ve got to deliver it to the owner. Unfortunately, things won’t end up being that straightforward in The Undertow.

This Half-Life: Alyx mod features a very fun setting with its neon saturated nightclub, though things do change up from there, and take a strangely horrifying turn.

There are more engaging combat challenges and puzzles in an hour long package. Not to mention the vodka is now drinkable!

Half-Life: Zheptics

The logo for the Half-Life: Zheptics Half-Life Alyx mods.

Half-Life: Zheptics is another long story campaign that you can enjoy for Half-Life: Alyx that puts you in the shoes of a Resistance member that is investigating a strange old facility with their brother.

This facility is called Zheptics, and is related to the original Black Mesa from the first Half-Life game. You’ll find a really surprising breath of fresh air in Half-Life: Zheptics, and it almost feels like a whole new game than the original.

There are new puzzles that take very surprising turns, new gameplay mechanics, new puzzles, and even new enemies. All of these fantastic surprises in this mod keep coming and are all of very high quality.

If you’re looking for a fresh new experience with a great playtime then of all Half-Life: Alyx mods none delivers more new content than Half-Life: Zheptics.

Euphoria

Combine soldiers surrounded by zombies in the Euphoria mod.

Goon Squad isn’t the only mod that lets you play as a combine soldier.

Euphoria differentiates itself just as Incursion does in the world of Half-Life: Alyx mods by being more of a wave defense campaign than an actual set of linear levels you play through. Also it heavily features allied combine soldiers. You feel more like part of a squad than a lone survivor this time.

In Euphoria you and your squad of combine buddies are in a ruined nightclub that is heavily infested with zombies. The zombies keep coming, you and your buddies keep blasting, and fantastic music keeps playing. It’s a good time.

Buckshot Bugs

The logo for the Buckshot Bugs Half-Life: Alyx mod.

If you’re bummed that you don’t get to use the shotgun enough in Half-Life: Alyx then the Buckshot Bugs mod is for you.

In this mod the shotgun is your only weapon. Once more you need to fight your way out of an infested area and make it to a train to escape. There are a ton of enemies, and more importantly a ton of shotgun shells.

That is, if you know where to find them. Constantly being on the lookout for ammunition is very important here, but the satisfaction of shotgun blasting your enemies is fantastic. It’s surprising how intricate the combat can get with just a single weapon, and how great the upgrades for it are.

Abduction

The logo for the Abudction HL:A mod.

In Abudction you wake up in a combine prison and escape, gather some weapons, and fight your way out while avoiding being recaptured.

This map is also short, but very tightly designed and well made. The premise is solid, and while nothing was truly surprising in this mod it was an overall solid experience. Nothing groundbreaking, but just a ton of fun that uses the mechanics of the original Half-Life: Alyx campaign well.

C17YSCAPE

The Citadel in C17YSCAPE.

In C17SCAPE you are once more in prison, except you’re no hero, just a normal citizen.

Luckily your cell malfunctions and you can escape. Unluckily the combine are after you and you are unarmed.

You’ll have to find a weapon and fight your way to, hopefully, safety. It’s hard out there for most in the Half-Life universe, and C17SCAPE is an old but great example of a solid hourlong map, and its been updated since then.

Overcharge

An early combat area in Overcharge.

Saving arguably the best for last we have Overcharge, a mod that early on in the life of the Half-Life: Alyx modding community revealed just how great Half-Life: Alyx mods can be. It is the #1 rated mod for this VR game.

In Overcharge you are a rebel soldier tasked with the near suicidal objective of disabling a combine substation in the area before it is built.

Overcharge is an absolute classic and a must try for anybody who really wants to get into Half-Life: Alyx mods. While it isn’t the longest, it is the highest rated for good reasons.

Anyhow those are 17 amazing Half-Life: Alyx custom campaign mods that give you more amazing Half-Life: Alyx gameplay for free!