List of Source mods

This is a list of Half-Life 2 Mods (modifications). This list is first divided into released and unreleased modifications and then further divided into single player and multiplayer mods.

Released Single Player Mods

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Mistake Of Pythagoras

Absence website - A third-person fantasy adventure game set in a Victorian industrial town. This game is developed by students at the University of Salford.
Antlion Troopers website - The player takes the role of a Combine soldier who is being trained to become a commander. The first mission is to help out a base that is in danger of being overrun by antlions.
Ballocks website - An action game inspired by the 1986 movie Critters.
Causality Effect website - Starting with the "Red Letter Day" of the original game, the story is changed. The teleportation experiment creates a hole in time and space, and the player's task is to travel through time and correct events that happened in the past. Features multiple endings.
Coastline to Atmosphere website - This mod continues the story where Half-Life 2 finished and offers a possible alternate scenario.
Combine Destiny website - The Combine has lost contact to one of their bases. The player is part of a team of Combine soldiers that is sent out to investigate and regain the control over the base.
CryShield website - Gordon fights his way through a Combine prison only to find himself established into a secret rebel force called the CryShield. After that, he is given a mission against the Combine.
Das Roboss website - Combine forces are constructing a enormous robot code named "Das Roboss". The player must infiltrate their bunker and stop them.
DayHard website - DayHard is a single player adventure set before the events of Half-Life 2. The player takes on the role of Gordon's brother, Morgan Freeman. DayHard's stated focus is on being funny rather than being revolutionary.
DoomEd website - DoomEd is a single-player first person shooter learning game that combines science and history with FPS action, taking players through the horror of bio-terrorism and WWII chemical experimentation gone wrong.
Eclipse website - A fantasy themed action-adventure total conversion mod in 3rd person view. Received 2005 Editor's Choice (released mod) from ModDB.
eXterminate website - eXterminate is a FPS type mod in pure kill-everything-that-moves style. It's very similar to the classic game Phobia II, with the exact same point: to kill as many things as possible before being overwhelmed by the endless flood of enemies.
FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod download - A modification that adds high-resolution textures to nearly all of the objects in the original Half-Life 2. The mod replaces the original music with orchestral scores and also modifies weapon strength to resemble realistic stopping power.
GROGG website - GROGG, the player, is a giant gorilla with a brain in a jar instead of a head. He has been separated from his father, a mad scientist, and it is GROGG's quest to find him.
Half-Life 2 SMOD website - A modification that adds bizarre new weapons, and new features including melee attacks, and bullet time. Information in English is available on kh0rn3's website and at the Valve developer community. SMOD's open architecture has also allowed for several mods of it to be made, including SMOD Remastered and SMOD Redux.
Half-Life 2 Substance website - Modifies Half-Life 2's single player game with enemies in new locations and more difficult settings, etc. Features additional areas, bullet time, multiple character classes with different attributes, (most of which are from the video game series Metal Gear Solid), melee attacks and additional weapons, and a variety of other effects and features.
Halloween website - A young boy on Halloween night decides to take a detour into an old farmhouse after an evening of Trick-or-Treating.
Jurassic Life website
MACe website - An adventure/puzzle game.
MINERVA website - Episodic single-player mod based in the Half-Life 2 universe, with a style of storytelling inspired by classic games such as Marathon and System Shock. The first episode, Metastasis 1, was released in September of 2005, and the second, Metastasis 2, was released on the 3rd March 2006. Ranked #11 mod of 2005 by ModDB.
Mistake Of Pythagoras website - A mod in which the player takes the role of Gordon Freeman in a parallel dimension. All the models and gameplay are exactly the same as in HL2, but the maps and story have been altered. Ranked #12 mod of 2005 by ModDB.
Penetration download - After the explosion of the citadel at the end of Half-Life 2's story, the G-man puts Gordon Freeman into stasis, but after a while prepares Gordon for a new mission.
Shantytown website - A point-and-click adventure game taking place in an imagined future where the earth has been largely overtaken by a jungle of poisonous fungus. Humanity has taken refuge in towering vertical cities protected by massive walls that spray fungicide into the jungle to keep it at bay.
Weekday Warrior website - A comical mouse-driven old-style adventure game, set in an office environment.
Wivenhoe website - A mod which depicts the events taken place before Ravenholm, a location in the Half-Life 2 story, is overrun by headcrabs.

Released Multiplayer Mods

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Art of Ascension website - Art of Ascension is a free RPG modification for Half-Life 2. Art of Ascension combines the spirit of online role playing games with the faster battling pace of classical first-person shooters. Players increase their character's level and enhance their abilities by battling to gain exerience. With higher levels comes training points to upgrade their weapons and attributes. Last release 2006-09-08.
Battle Grounds 2 website - Based on the events of the American Revolutionary War, The Battle Grounds puts players in the shoes of American or British forces. Features a variety of player classes, large scale maps, and assorted cannons and artillery for players to use. Last release (version 0.17) 2006-07-04. Received 2005 Editor's Choice (reinvention) from ModDB.
Dodgeball website - A full conversion mod for Half-life 2, which provides an authentic recreation of the classic school sport dodgeball. Last release 2006-03-20.
Dystopia website - A cyberpunk themed total conversion for Half-Life 2. Punk mercenaries fight against Corporate security forces (Corps) in both the physical world and cyberspace. Last release 2006-01-29. Ranked #3 mod of 2005 and Best action mod of 2005 by ModDB.
Empires website - A HL2 Deathmatch total conversion, previously for Battlefield 1942 but moved to the Source engine, which blends first-person shooter and real-time strategy gameplay elements. Players can take the role of a commander who constructs a base for the team with options such as vehicle factories and defensive turrets. Vehicles being a central theme of the mod, players can customize them with different weapon, armor, and engine configurations. Last release July 22, 2006.
Eternal Silence website - Eternal Silence is a sci-fi mod that allows for extremely open-ended gameplay, allowing to fight fast-paced dog fights in space, bombard an enemy capital ship with a heavy payload, invade the enemy capital ship by foot and attack from the inside, or command the troops and claim victory over the foe. The first version was released on 2006-09-23.
Exite website - Made by the Pilotable Strider Mod team, this is a recreation of Valve's newest game Portal for Half-Life 2 and multiplayer. A public alpha (1.0) has been released on 2006-09-23.
Fueled website - A singleplayer and multiplayer mod inspired by Grand Theft Auto. Last release 2005-08-23.
Garry's Mod GMod9 (free) | GMod10 (commercial) - Garry's Mod is a "sandbox" mod. It allows the player to manipulate objects, often with interesting results thanks to the game's Havok physics engine. Garry's Mod is playable in both single player and multiplayer. Ranked #1 mod of 2005 and Best puzzle mod of 2005 by ModDB.
GoldenEye: Source website - A total conversion for Half-Life 2 that attempts to recreate the game GoldenEye 007 in the Source engine. Last release January 11, 2006. Ranked #4 unreleased mod of 2005 by ModDB (the mod is released now).
Half-Life 2 Assault website - Assault mode mod based on the popular play from the Unreal Tournament series. Rebels are pitched against Combine in objective play, where each round a series of objectives have to be completed, by using the guide and overview map. Features extreme map interactivity, new weapons such as smoke grenades and, coming soon, a new class based system. Last release 2006-03-04.
Half-Life 2 Capture the Flag website - A Capture the Flag mod based upon HL2: Deathmatch, with the addition of new weapons and powerups. Last release 2006-01-31.
Half-Life 2 DeathMatch Pro website - A fast paced version of regular HL2DM which also features the Tau Canon aka Gauss, Longjump and many movement tricks such as bunny hop, gauss jump and wall jumps. It also features new game modes like: Instant Gib, Last Team Standing, Arena, Arcade, and a full Match Management System. Last release January 26, 2005.
Hidden: Source website - In Hidden: Source, one player assumes the role of a modified human, The Hidden, who is almost completely invisible and has a variety of super-human characteristics but is only armed with a knife and grenades. The other players form a SWAT team, called I.R.I.S (Infinitum Research Intercept Squad), with regular human attributes and a handgun and choice of sub-machine gun or shotgun. The human team hunts and attempts to kill the Hidden, while the Hidden attempts to kill all of the human players without being detected. Last release (version beta 4a) June 14, 2006. Received 2005 Editor's Choice (multiplayer) from ModDB.
Hypercube: Source website - A Half-Life 2 Deathmatch mod based on the movie Cube 2: Hypercube. Players try to escape the hypercube alive by avoiding traps seen in all three Cube movies.
Iron Grip website - A total conversion that combines first person shooters (FPS) with real time strategy (RTS) elements in a full scale city war. Last release 2006-09-25.
Kreedz Climbing website - A unique, non-violent, puzzle-type, first person game where the player attempts to climb or jump his way to the top of any given environment, in a race against time and against other players. There are no lock-n-load type weapons in this game. The player is equipped with a climbers tool which is primarily designed to use against environmental obstructions that can be broken. Last release March 17, 2006 (mod author had a hard drive crash and has cancelled the project after losing all of the source files).
Neoforts website - Neoforts is a multiplayer CTF modification that is based off of SourceForts version 1.4.1 code. Features include four-team gameplay, and ARGG physgun with 3 way rotation. Last release 2006-07-28.
Obsidian Conflict website - A co-op mod in which the players are former prisoners of earth, taken to a Combine research facility in the arctic. The players are placed in a holographic space so realistic that they can't tell the difference between the real world and the fake. Last release 2006-08-03.
Plan of Attack website - Plan of Attack is a multiplayer first-person shooter that highlights strategy, teamwork, and out-thinking the enemy. Last official release October 5, 2005. However, the development team has halted development and released the source code of the mod. Currently a new mod team is recruiting to continue development of the mod.
Project 22 website - A small multiplayer weapon mod featuring a complete set of new weapons. Last release April 13, 2005.
Sands of War 2 website - Realistic tactical combat simulation in near future desert environments. Last release: March 1, 2006.
SourceForts website - A capture-the-flag mod. Teams use gravity guns to build a fort out of given parts during the build phases, and assault the other team's fort during the combat phases. One can play as a Soldier, Sniper, Engineer, Rocketeer, or Scout in a fast-paced battle for glory. Last release September 1, 2006. Ranked #13 mod of 2005 by ModDB.
Source Racer website - An arcade style, comeptetive and fun racing mod for Half-Life 2 which brings exciting gameplay to the tense Half-Life 2 environment. The aim of the game is to get lower lap times around the track. The one who finishes first wins. Last release 2005-01-30.
Strider Mod website - A HL2 Deathmatch mod in which players can mount and control various vehicles from Half-Life 2 including: Combine hunter-choppers, APCs, and of course, Striders.
Synergy website | (meaning of the name) - A multiplayer co-operative mod built from several co-op mods such as: "Dev Coop" and "DC Coop 2". With soon to be added more game modes such as "Deathmatch" "Team-coop" and more, and the similar mod "Tim-Coop" has merged with this mod adding more maps and features. Last release September 30, 2005.
Tim Coop website - A multiplayer cooperative mod which recently has merged with Synergy. Last release April 17, 2005.
Troy: Divine Playground website - A critically panned total conversion set in the Trojan War.

References

Feature: Mods of 2005 - Mod DB

External links

Official

Unofficial

Half-Life 2 World Wiki - Comprehensive Half-Life 2 Wiki covering all aspects of the game and related Source mod development
Mod Database: Half-Life 2 - Community site covering the latest news for all mods for all games. Includes a HL2 mods database and downloads.
Mod HQ - The most active and up to date Half-Life 2 mods news resource
PlanetPhillip - Commentary and Analysis of Sci-Fi Single Player First Person Shooters - Includes an extensive list of Half-Life 2 maps and mods.
The Mod Resource - News and reviews of many Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2 mods.