Xash3D FWGS

A really cool emulator. This thing is so easy to use and so convenient because of the customizable controls and quicksave feature. I've only had one pc growing up, so I never really experienced Half-Life. Now, thanks to this, I've experienced a joy I will never forget.

The best port of all time, runs smoothly on best settings. Saddly the controls were the only problem for me, but after configuring them for my gamepad I went to test them on hazard course but got stuck with getting the tram controls working, when I press the use/interact button I binded it doesn't allow me to take control of the tram, the speed bars incon pops and it makes the usual tram switching on sound but doesn't go into tram control mode. And I even tried that with touch controls only for same problem to happen. It unfortunately I couldn't find any work around so it seems like I won't get past on the rail chapter.

This is a near-perfect port of Half-Life's engine, but buggy setup for game controllers takes away one point. When attempting to set up my Steelseries Duo (which works perfectly in everything else) I can't assign axes, or most buttons. This is not a problem with, say, any of the Beloko apps, or anything on GearVR. Only Xash shows this issue for me. And the game really demands a controller, no matter how nice the touch-controls may be. Until this is resolved, I can't give it a top rating!

Good source port, but mapping controls for a gamepad is inexcusably crappy and difficult, it's way too sensitive and you can't even map the B button to anything because it always goes back. Now I've broken the touch controls somehow so I can no longer look. If this was overhauled to where you can configure the controls without going ingame or something I'd be much less harsh about my thoughts on this. In short, this is a terrific port crippled by poorly-implemented gamepad support.

Provides a pretty faithful recreation of HL1, because it IS HL1. But if you have a computer nearby, play it in PC. The experience is much better. Controls in Xash are a little wonky and could use improvement, and some game elements outright don't work. This mobile port is really buggy and not compatible with every phone. But, hey, it's free! So if you somehow have a copy of Half Life on your phone, feel free to try it out!

It runs really well. The touchscreen controls and level of customisation is probably the best you could hope for. That being said, the game would be much better suited to a gamepad. Which begs the question, why isn't it properly optimised for use with one? Tried using one and all I could do was walk and nothing else. Please add gamepad support as it would bring this to a 5* experience.

I can play half life and cs 1.6 at a high resolution with 60fps. Multiplayer is also active for both games. The only problem is sometimes I get disconnected from servers automatically. It can be annoying when I'm having a fun game. Other than that it's a brilliant app. Would love to see something like this for source engine games. Hope you stay active devs because your work is amazing.

Very good engine, runs well, and even allows for TFC, but my only complaint is that when I start a new game on half life, it doesn't load the mobile controls. I have no idea how to fix it, but it makes it so I cannot play at all, and get stuck on the tram ride just staring off into the distance while it reaches the platform.

When it works, it's great. I was able to run a Counter Strike Mod perfectly fine by setting the path to the file. The problem lies in trying to use the app for its intended purpose, to play Half Life. I recently reinstalled the game on steam, and set the path into an xash folder I created in my sdcard directory with valve inside. The game loads the menu fine, meaning the path is correct, but upon starting a New Game on medium difficulty I run into a problem. As the files get "compiled" or "read", I get an Xash Error "There is something wrong with your game data! Please, reinstall." I dont know whether its xash not recognizing certain files, or Steam's update, but its preventing me from using this application.

Honestly I'm amazed at how well this engine has been ported. Running the original Half Life at 100fps on a smartphone is mind blowing to me, technology has come sooooo far. The button layout isn't ideal by default but can be edited to suit any preference. Once you find your ideal settings it's not far off the experience you get on a PC.

This is great, however for the life of me I can't figure out how to help with corrupted looking textures. I mess with the Gama setting it fixes the issue...but only for like 30 seconds then it goes black or the colors get wonky

It's an awesome experience bringing Half-life on my pocket, and playing in my spare time. I always love to play FPS on touch screens, most than in physical controllers, and HL was among the best FPS of all times. The port was very well made, the touch commands are tight, the game runs smooth. I recommend it.

Plays perfectly with all the customization you could ever need. Controls could be a bit awkward at first, but fiddle around with the options for a bit and it's just smooth sailing from there. So glad I came across this, and I'm quite honestly surprised it doesn't cost a cent. Truly impressive.

This is an amazing system and it would be an amazing way to play half life however it doesn't seem to register all the inputs a controller makes as inputs ie second analog stick and triggers, making it neerly impossible to play with a gamepad as well you can't map 2 actions such as reload and activate to the same key meaning there are way more actions than possible inputs. I don't know if it's a problem with this app or halflife but these files work fine on my PC so I must assume it's this app

Wow! Thank god I found this. This is just amazing. It's the whole Half-Life experience. I haven't tried to play with a controller but the on screen controls are not bad, they just feel cluttered. I had a problem running the app but I just re-installed it and it worked fine.

Great engine overall. Easy to set up, and once it is, you're only two taps away from playing the entirety of Half-Life with well-rounded controls. I'm currently on the "Lambda Core" chapter and have experienced no issues so far.

A great source engine port. Plays games at a smooth framerate. Although the games are much harder to play due to the games being designed for mouse and keyboard. Not really a fault of the source port though. Also I have problems with using a mocute controller.

It's a good thing community still improve goldsrc game. It's can run half-life well, but controls still bad: gamepad binding is buggy, doesn't have gyro aiming, touchscreen menu isn't ergonomic. I mean, you should open numberic menu too fast switch, there's emulated mouse scroll but controling this will slower.

Fantastic way to play classic titles. Quite a few CS servers are still frequently populated. Authentic zombie escape is something awesome to have in my pocket. Being easily installable on an ARM chromebook is another massive plus. On my x86 chromebook, I just install Steam and CS via the Linux VM, but Steam doesn't have a client for ARM processors, so this is a super easy way to play CS on my ARM one without convoluted cross-architecture VMs that would likely hurt performance

i think its amazing that you can port this and have it run the way it does, i have tried it on numerous devices and found that the frame rate is stable and high even with my less powerful devices. Same with cs 1.6 client that runs great to.

Loved it! However it should have mouse support, the cursor just hovers over the screen when you move it. Also, choosing how much opasity you have for the controls would be nice. Looking foward for more updates :)

Really good, the controls are well laid out, it runs excellently. Seems to be an older version of halflife that runs, and occasionally the textures are a little bit glitchy, but a really good port overall and an excellent app.

I have an issue. When using fullscreen mode, the hitboxes are a bit off on certain buttons, like reloading and shooting. Resizing them does nothing. My phone resolution is 1920x1080 and I'm launching the game using 720x480. Please help.

I got Half-Life working even though I downloaded the files for Counter-Strike... I won't ask questions there. The controls are absolute dog water, for starters the sensitivity is way too high and I can't find a way to change it, second I can't get rid of the overlay controls because I'm using a controller, and third the camera always moves slowly up into the right and there's no way to stop it

I have one problem while playing HL, I'm in the part where I should restore oxygen supply but when i come back into the blast pit the game just crashes immediately after loading the area. I tried loading a map after this but it still crashes, I'm not using any mods and all seems to be normal, theres no error in the console

One of the best ports ever for mobile phones however i wish u made an option to hide the on screen buttons.For people who say "clickbait app" just dont know how to get the valve folder. Well some bugs i found is that sometime when u jump it will say unknown command +jump and you cant spawn monsters despite the fact that you have sv_cheats 1 on and mp_allowmonsters 1 is also on as well as ent_create.

I have a £100 2 year old huawei smart phone, so far I have emulated n64, ps1 gba, and now I'm porting pc games, everything seems to work better then I remember it did 20 years ago but on my phone,, xash works fine for me my only problem is controller mapping its impossible, you can't doit, the analogue sticks work that is it, realistically you need to Rob the controller mapping from The ps2 port and do your thing, touch screen works well enough I have done a decent chunk of the campaign, but...