Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman: the fan version of Half-Life 3 has risen from the dead and will soon receive a demo prologue

While Valve is rumored to be working on the real Half-Life 3, passionate fans continue to work on an unofficial version of the threequel. The Project Borealis team shared their first news in several years.

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Let us remind you that Project Borealis is a game based on the Epistle 3 story published in 2017 by former series screenwriter Marc Laidlaw with a veiled plot of the failed Half-Life 3.

From 2017 to 2020, the Project Borealis team delighted fans with reports on the progress of the project, after which it went into radio silence: from time to time the team posted individual images, but in 2022 their flow also stopped.

Concept art of snowy Ravenholm (image source: Project Borealis)

Four years later, a new video has appeared on the Project Borealis YouTube channel – a 29-second announcement trailer for Project Borealis: Prologue. This is an interactive prologue, a demo of the future reimagining.

«Return to the snowy streets of Ravenholm in this reimagined sequel to the Half-Life saga. Project Borealis: Prologue is a fan-made gaming experience set before Project Borealis,” the description reads.

Enthusiasts still haven’t specified the release date for the main game, but Project Borealis: Prologue won’t have to wait long: the interactive prologue will be released before the end of autumn of this year.

According to Laidlaw’s story, after the events of Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance were supposed to go to Antarctica in search of the research vessel Northwind, which was hiding technologies desired by the Alliance.