Two teams wanted to improve on the Source remake and eventually merged to become Crowbar Collective. Originally published as a free mod in September 2012, Black Mesa was approved by Half-Life developers Valve for a commercial release the first commercial version was published as an early-access version in May 2015, followed by a full release in March 2020 for Windows and Linux.īlack Mesa was developed in response to Half-Life: Source (2005), Valve's port of Half-Life to the Source engine, which lacked new features or improvements. It is a third-party remake of Half-Life (1998) made in the Source game engine.
Comparison of the Anomalous Materials lobby room in Half-Life (top) and Black Mesa (bottom)īlack Mesa is a first-person shooter game developed and published by Crowbar Collective.
