He believes it’s at such a nascent state that it’ll fall victim to the ‘winter break syndrome’ where it falls through the cracks after an extended leave from the office. On that note, McVickers is also pessimistic about the future of HLX - a project to make a VR title like Half-Life: Alyx for much weaker, standalone hardware. Supposedly, there was originally meant to be some optional VR element too, but that’s been dropped as Valve is apparently losing interest in VR in general.
What would that look like? “Think about Left 4 Dead and Alien Swarm and an RTS and Half-Life all having a baby.” While much of the team has moved to support Steam Deck’s final push, this is something we should see in the next year and a half to two years, apparently. Citadel is, according to McVicker, “a nostalgia fest” designed to showcase Steam Deck’s capabilities: A “Half-Life-based FPS/RTS hybrid that is cooperatively based.” So what is this Half-Life spin off then? Well, it’s certainly different - Half-Life: Citadel. That said, a small footnote has been added to the bottom of the screen softening this slightly: “there is a very minor group working on H元 at the time of recording.” So some slight long-term hope there, maybe. Still, the company did say around the release of Alyx that it was trying to release more Half-Life games in the near future, so maybe it'll happen.“Any kind of traditional mouse and keyboard first-person shooter at Valve is not taking place,” he concluded. So while it might be true that there's a team working on a game called "Citadel" somewhere within the glimmering guts of Valve, that doesn't mean you're going to get to play it any time soon - or at all, really. Back when Half-Life Alyx came out, the studio acknowledged that Alyx was "at least" the sixth attempt at a new Half-Life project since the last game in the series, Episode 2. While we'd love to get excited about these hypothetical new games, the truth is that Valve has a rich history of leaking information about projects it’s working on, only for those projects to never actually come out in the first place. Team Fortress 2 originally included more tactical mechanics (such as a "Commander" class) before Valve decided to stick with the more traditional formula.
As noted by other Valve fans, this isn't the first time that the company has experimented with a shooter/strategy formula. Though McVicker is currently working on revealing more info on the latter three games, he uploaded a lengthy video where he discusses his sources and what Citadel might look like. According to him, the four games mentioned in the leak include a hybrid first-person shooter strategy game called Citadel, a new take on canceled Portal follow-up F-Stop, a version of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that runs in Valve's Source 2 engine, and the aforementioned sequel to VR game Half-Life Alyx.
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