He believes it’s at such a nascent state that it’ll fall victim to the ‘winter break syndrome’ where it falls through the cracks after an extended leave from the office.

On that note, McVickers is also pessimistic about the future of HLX - a project to make a VR title like Half-Life: Alyx for much weaker, standalone hardware.

Supposedly, there was originally meant to be some optional VR element too, but that’s been dropped as Valve is apparently losing interest in VR in general. What would that look like? “Think about Left 4 Dead and Alien Swarm and an RTS and Half-Life all having a baby.” While much of the team has moved to support Steam Deck’s final push, this is something we should see in the next year and a half to two years, apparently. Citadel is, according to McVicker, “a nostalgia fest” designed to showcase Steam Deck’s capabilities: A “Half-Life-based FPS/RTS hybrid that is cooperatively based.” So what is this Half-Life spin off then? Well, it’s certainly different - Half-Life: Citadel. That said, a small footnote has been added to the bottom of the screen softening this slightly: “there is a very minor group working on H元 at the time of recording.” So some slight long-term hope there, maybe. “Any kind of traditional mouse and keyboard first-person shooter at Valve is not taking place,” he concluded.

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