What will happen after Half Life Alyx?

[Dawido]

In the ending G-Man changed events of timeline, allowed Alyx to save her Dad, but at the same time he took her to some kind of void that Gordon already was in.
What's gonna happen next? Literally after 13 years the story finally moved, and in post-credit cutscene Eli says "We have work to do"

I think that all of things will end up leading to Borealis, since Episode 2 talked about that thing a lot, and seems that this thing might be only way to somehow interact with inter-dimensionial things and even stop G-Man, since Vortiguants can proves that he isn't fully unstoppable.

This may sounds stupid, but i think that since 2024 gonna be 20th anniversally of Half Life 2, maybe finally they gonna accounment Half Life 3, there is no way that they will stop just after making big story-changing plot twist at the end of Half Life Alyx

[AlexTECPlayz]

They will definitely continue making Half-Life games, especially now that they have opened up many possibilities by retconning the story from HL2EP2. While I doubt they will announce a new game next year, since it's the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2, they might work with NVIDIA and Orbifold Studios to plan the release date for Half-life 2 RTX (Website)[www.hl2rtx.com] and possibly releasing the Half-Life 2 Remastered Collection (SteamDB)[steamdb.info] VDC that has been in development for some time by the team that did Half-life 2 Update.

If we're lucky, we might get Citadel ('HLX') or a teaser regarding the Alyx follow-up, but that would be unlikely.

[LemonyNebula]

It may not even be a retcon for all we know. We have no idea if the events of Half Life 2's ending is still known to have happened, or is to affect the next title in some way.

Time and or space travel can be way too complex of a thing to predict in a story as there are so many variations on how it could potentially work.
From shifting timelines, to literally rewriting a single line, each type of change can effect the story in multiple different ways if at all. As the ending of alyx was only a few minutes from the end, only giving a snippet of an outcome, we understand too little to have a good guess really on what could have happened or whether Half Life 2's end has actually been rewritten. (Not that we can't speculate).

G-man could have potentially folded time for example allowing the future to continue from a previous point but keeping the alternate events in the same line. Or as previously mentioned, they could be different versions of themselves on a different line/dimension that means elsewhere what happened still happened.
Or maybe he did just erase the end and rewrite it with a past version of Alyx and it was a simple retcon...

As ever, G-man's powers and intentions remains a mystery.

Basically, we have no idea until they tell us. All we do know is Valve seem to want to continue the series and could really go any way with it.

I'm just excited to see how.

[IanL]

I agree with Lemony, they could literally take this anywhere so I'm not about to second guess. Although I'd love to see more franchise output I kind of hope they never completely explain it all, as some things are better left as a mystery.