Considering how remarkably prolificValvehas been over the years with its various non-game projects, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the company is, in fact, still a game developer as well. Its latest flagship release,Half-Life: Alyx,was very well-received overall, but its VR exclusivity meant that many players never got around to playing it, limiting its overall reach and appeal.
According toValve’s product designer, Greg Coomer, the company isn’t close to being done developing actual video games. While reiterating how important game development is to the company, he also admitted to there being multiple games undergoing active development at Valve already, and said that the company will continue releasing games in the near and far future.
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“A lot of people are involved [in game development at Valve],” Coomer said. While it’s exceedingly unlikely any of these alleged productions relates to thecanceledHalf-LifeRavenholmgame, Coomer did admit that there will, in fact, be moreHalf-Lifegames on the market eventually. Specifically, Coomer stated that there’s more to say about the world ofHalf-Life, and that fans ought to takeAlyxas a sign of this being the case.
Notably, Coomer also said that itmay be time for a newPortalgame, in that he’d like to make another FPS puzzler set in this world sometime down the line. SinceHalf-LifeandPortaldo take place in the same universe, a joint project of some sort wouldn’t be too out of place, especially since there were rumors of the mythicalHalf-Life 3already connecting the two disparate series into one continuity before it got shelved.
At the same time, it’s worth pointing out that shortmini-games like theAperture Desk Jobmay be what Valve is currently working on. Coomer’s responses were decidedly vague, and could easily refer to games likeDesk Jobin broad terms. As promising as much of what Coomer has said might be, there aren’t any real timelines on offer, and there’s no available description for any of the games that Valve is currently working on. In other words, they really could be anything.
Furthermore, Valve’s hardware division is stronger than ever before now that the Steam Deck has proven to be a successful endeavor.Valve wants to make new Steam Deck versionssometime in the future, and it wouldn’t be too strange if its other projects took a backseat in lieu of the more exciting and potentially industry-changing hardware releases. As it is, only time will tell what comes of Coomer’s promises.
