What is Black Mesa Swarm?

Black Mesa Swarm is an Alien Swarm total conversion remaking Valve Software's award-winning PC game, Half-Life.

Utilizing the Source engine, Black Mesa Swarm will reintroduce the player as Doctor Gordon Freeman, along with the original cast of memorable characters and environments seen in Half-Life. Black Mesa Swarm was built and founded on the basis that Black Mesa Source was inadequate as the Source engine port of Half-Life, regardless of the intentions of the Black Mesa Source team. As such, Black Mesa Swarm was founded to fully reconstruct the Half-Life universe utilizing Source to its fullest potential in terms of art detail, level sizes and code features.

When will Black Mesa Swarm be released?

We're not sure when Black Mesa Swarm will be released, but we're definitely sure that it will not take 6 years to make. We are also sure that it will not end up looking worse than Half-Life, and will give you an amazing feeling of nostalgia with recreated campaigns, models, and other things.

What will I need in order to play, and is it really free?

This total conversion will only require a copy of Alien Swarm installed on Steam (which is free!)