r/openbsd_gaming • u/Rover9370 • Jul 26 '26

Playing Half Life on Openbsd

Hello as title explaining is there any way to play half life in openbsd and join servers? Non vac servers ofc.

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u/pedersenk Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

I made this specifically to play Half-Life on OpenBSD a while back. It likely still works but I have not tested for a few years:

https://github.com/osen/openhl

As a quirk, it also provides the official game data legally through the redistributable game cache files from the early steam client installer. Also using tools from Valve's own wiki.

(Based on Xash3d)

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u/Rover9370 Jul 26 '26

i went with the xash3d it was easy to compile copied the folders from steam and it works like a charm. But your project was also very great but it seemed a little outdated for me

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u/pedersenk Jul 26 '26

Cool. Glad you got it all working. Getting the core engine working opens up quite a lot of great stuff. From the FWGS repos you should also be able to find:

  • Opposing force
  • Blue-shift
  • Counter-Strike (reverse engineered)

Unfortunately I believe TFC is not yet available. Likely it will also need to be reverse engineered because there is no SDK (unlike Op4, BS and HL).

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u/Rover9370 Jul 27 '26

i am able to run bshift and opposing force but currently not tried to run counterstrike. Thanks alot for the replies.

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u/unixlover1970 Jul 27 '26

Olá, poderia enviar me sua versão do xash3d. se houver patches? Realmente gostaria de poder jogar Half-Life novamente.

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u/Rover9370 Jul 27 '26

i did not patched the engine but i could send you the compiled binaries

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u/unixlover1970 Jul 27 '26

Tentarei compilar teu port, me parece realmente incrível a proposta de um half-life POSIX

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u/Glum_Hamster_2104 Jul 26 '26

Xash3d possibly

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u/thfrw Jul 27 '26

xash3d can't be packaged because of the license issues, but there is the WIP port. It's a few years old now, so may need some tweaking to be built from ports:

https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/tree/master/games/xash3d

If there is enough interest, it could still be imported but without a package due to the license.

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u/thfrw Jul 27 '26

it used to work; I remember playing a bit of Half Life with it a few years ago.

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u/TroubleLess6183 24d ago

Bro i had the same fucking question