The two biggest mods for the Half-Life era were easily Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat. Mods grew in popularity, but only a select few became stand alone titles, and only a few saw new iterations when Half-Life 2 released.

That didn’t last long though, and soon we had mods from creative people with plenty of time on their hands. Half-Life was a smash hit, and a great game to play but once you were bored of the campaign, traditional deathmatch was there for you. The original game released in the 90’s when the Internet was becoming a thing and multiplayer PC gaming over-the-internet was in a state of growth but wasn’t an always-connected proposition just yet. If you were as much of a nut as I was for Half-Life, you’ve likely played a mod or two.

This time around, two games struck my fancy, and both for very different reasons.

Sometimes I’ll absent-mindedly add games to my wishlist, and then sometimes I will just buy them on the spot, particularly if something new and shiny has a bit of a discount. Leave it to the Steam Discovery Queue to turn me on to games I’d never heard of.

Day of infamy campaign