Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American game development company. Valve is known for developing popular shooter game titles such as Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, and Counter-Strike. Not only that, Valve has also entered the MOBA game industry by releasing the game DOTA 2. With so much experience in the gaming community, which are the best of the games published by Valve Corp.?
Please note that Valve’s games that are not on the list below do not mean the game is not good, but the list of games below deserves to be called the best games from Valve.
6. Counter-Strike: Source
Games Counter-Strike: Source is the 2004 remake version of the game Counter-Strike. In this game there are additional features that are improved graphics and updated algorithms but still maintain the original side of the game Counter-Strike.
This game featuring a battle between terrorists against police, it can be considered as one of the best pure shooter games ever developed. Initially, Counter-Strike was introduced as a mod for Half-Life, but its growing popularity required it to get a standalone release.
5. Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead is one of the horror games that you must play. This game places four humans who survive an apocalyptic pandemic against zombies or are infected. Infected is controlled by bots, while players can control up to four Special Infected with special abilities in the Versus game mode. The four players must work together to survive and achieve safe house.
4. Portal
Portal is a strategy game where there are a series of puzzles that must be solved by moving the player character and simple objects. Players will be faced with an artificial intelligence called GLaDOS which promises cookies as a reward if you complete obstacles.
Portal is considered a fun game because it often provides a sense of humor to its players. This game has received a lot of praise for its originality, unique gameplay, and a series of hilarious dialogues.
3. DOTA 2
Dota 2 is a very popular multiplayer online battle arena game for gamers. Dota 2 is played by 2 teams of 5 players, each team has a base in the corner of the map, each base has a building called “Ancient”, where the team must try to destroy the opposing team’s “Ancient” in order to win the match.
Each player can only control one “Hero” character who focuses on leveling up, collecting gold, buying items and fighting the opposing team to win.
As of mid-2022, Dota 2 was the game with the most player activity on Steam, reaching 800,000 concurrent players online every day. But unfortunately this record was broken by PUBG which has up to 1 million player activities every day.
2. Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 is a shooter video game that is a continuation of the video game Half-Life. In this game, the player will control Gordon Freeman, who fought against aliens Combine with allies including resistance fighters Alyx Vance, using weapons such as gravity weapons that manipulate objects.
Players will start without any weapon items, and slowly gain their weapon items during battle. This game has similar gameplay to Half-Life, such as health systems, weapons and physics puzzles. But there are developments on the side of a newer engine and better graphics.
Half-Life 2 received high praise for its physics, animation, sound, AI, graphics, and narration game categories. This game has won 39 awards Game of the Year, and has been hailed as one of the greatest games of all time.
1. Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 is also a shooting game developed by Valve Corporation. In this game, players can join one of two teams, RED or BLU, and choose one of 9 characters to fight in game mode. In the game’s storyline, the team consists of mercenaries hired by two feuding brothers to protect the company’s assets.
Team Fortress 2 offers the sensation of playing a strategy game that is quite challenging. Not only supported by an interesting game storyline, Team Fortress 2 also has pretty good graphics.
