Half-Life: Alyx sequel and Citadel leak in major Valve datamine

metro.co.uk:

Four Valve projects have been discovered in an Aperture Desk Job datamine, including a follow-up to Half Life: Alyx.

In case you missed it, Valve recently released Aperture Desk Job, a free Portal spin-off that acts as a tech demo for its Steam Deck portable console. Its release has certainly got people talking… not because of the game itself but because it may have leaked four unannounced projects.

Of the four games, perhaps the most exciting one is a purported follow-up to VR midquel Half-Life: Alyx. The other three discovered by YouTuber Tyler McVicker are a port of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive into Valve’s Source 2 game engine, a recreation of a cancelled Portal paint game, and the previously rumoured Citadel.

Citadel is said to be a cross between a first person shooter and a real-time strategy game set in the Half-Life universe and, according to McVicker, it’s not only referenced to in Aperture Desk Job’s files, but a whole host of information related to it is included as well.

We’re talking mention of a single-player campaign, in-depth details on the game’s abilities and how they work, and how the game would involve you controlling a commander who looks down on the action and deploys bots, with the ability to become directly involved by taking over one of the robots. So there’s a lot more concrete information than most other datamines.

McVicker’s video primarily covers the Citadel details, with the other three to be discussed in other videos at a future date. He describes it as the ‘most fruitful datamine I have ever experienced as a journalist, as a passionate gamer.’ Although he adds ‘I don’t understand how this much information was able to be ‘accidentally’ leaked,’ perhaps implying Valve meant for this info to