About This Game

What is A Place in the West?

Do I need to be Familiar with Half-Life?

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is a fan-made comic book set within Valve's acclaimeduniverse.At a science complex in the New Mexico desert, a teleportation experiment goes very wrong, unleashing interdimensional chaos on an unsuspecting Earth. The aftershocks end with the arrival of a totalitarian order called The Combine, which forces a brutal police state on the last remnants of the occupied planet.Now, some years later, a mysterious cosmic tower has materialised in a hidden city – a tower that may prove to be humanity’s salvation, or its doom. A team of military commandos soon emerge from the city, sweeping across the American wasteland kidnapping children for an unknown purpose.In the wake of their devastation, a troubled father, an intrepid scientist, and an ancient alien warrior are each drawn to the strange city with the cosmic tower: New Franklin. Faced with warring clans, diabolical experiments, portentous dreamscapes, and the growing shadow of The Combine, they must unlock New Franklin’s mysteries before it’s too late – and the lives of everyone in the city hang in the balance.weaves a compelling story with a complex cast of all-new characters, drawing on the rich mythology of theuniverse to create an original adventure for the series.The comic will run for a total of fifteen chapters, the first of which,, is available for free to download and comes to a total of 35 pages. The remaining chapters will be released sequentially as paid-DLC, and will be 30 pages in length.Nope! The first chapter features a ten-page prologue designed to bring new readers up to speed with the world ofis also set in the interim betweenand, which means that you needn't be familiar with Valve's later games anyway. That isn't to say, however, that you won't find exciting things to enjoy if you are familiar with the series.The comic is displayed and presented in an app designed by ourselves for the best possible reading experience. Through a fully-animated menu screen, derived in style from the menus of, you can quickly and easily navigate between the comic pages and chapters, adjusting zoom & language options, the credits, and the extras section. The extras section will be continuously updated over the course of the comic's production, and will include some "Behind the Scenes" commentary videos!The comic is also available in PDF form; simply purchase the comic, and a copy will be automatically downloaded into your Steam files. This will enable you to readin whatever format you see fit: be it via our app, or as a PDF on your mobile device.