Valve may be taking its sweet time to make new Half-Life games, but that doesn’t mean that other developers didn’t get involved. Arkane Studios was once working on a canceled Half-Life spin-off. The game, internally known as Ravenholm, was going to place players into the boots of a new character in the titular town. Now, thanks to Noclip, about an hour of gameplay of Ravenholm is available to watch on YouTube.
Noclip is known for creating documentaries focused on the development of video games. The team had previously released some footage of the game back in 2020. Ravenholm was running on the Source 2 engine used in Half-Life 2, but with new modifications to expand on how players could knock around foes in combat.
Arkane has a storied history of creating immersive-sim first-person shooters. After working on Ravenholm in 2006-2007, the studio released Dishonored in 2012. With that in mind, the developer could have been a natural fit for the Half-Life franchise. It’s a …
