Best Half Life 2 mods available through Steam?

[dankmemes9988]

What are the best Half Life 2 mods available through Steam? I don't like independent mods since a lot of them don't work, hence I only want to play mods that are available thru Steam. I also have Half Life 2 episodes 1 and 2, so it doesn't matter which game the mods are for. So which are the best ones? Also I don't care if they are free or paid, I am ready to pay money for the mods.

[JaguarFox]

Half-Life 2 Update, I think Downfall might be available on Steam, and Minerva metastasis are ones that I've played. There may be better ones out there but I would recommend these.

[-$ilver-]

Minerva is really good, beat it more then once on multiple difficulty levels. They say the guy who made that, because it was so good, was hired by Valve if that means anything to you.

I just recently downloaded both The Wilson Chronicles which is basically a remake of HL1 as far as I can tell, from a different point of view and also Downfall, which is a side mission to HL2 I believe.

Fast Detect seems more from a Russian point of view from just the general setting. More a wasteland and odd ball scenery.

Reloaded is basically a no holds bar fight fest between all alien species, with weapons and characters some that were cut from HL2 are included as well as the some HL1 enemies remastered.

Estranged Act1 is a vampirish/zombie thriller I think.

I was a little saddened that I could not find more mods for HL2 or the many from HL1 on the Steam store. What makes some mods ok to be showcased on Steam and others not? A lot of the older mods for sure are Grade A tried and true solid games that had helped Half Life and Valve still be a household name.

[dankmemes9988]

Thanks guys. I'm playing Minerva right now. It definitely seems to be the best of them.

[-$ilver-]

Cry of Fear (the remake of Afraid of Monsters I believe) I heard is good, but there is a global bug in game that you have to do a work around just to make it past the early chapters and I have not bothered with it.

But tell me about Minerva when you are done. The only downside for me was that everything is text on the screen instead of a spoken computer voice. That and no way to make it go faster or pause it to read it in the heat of battle. Surely he could of had a person (female preferably) do the voice acting.

[some bi girl]

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