Genre FPSReleased Jun 1, 2001
Half-Life: Blue Shift
Developed by Gearbox Software · Published by Valve
$4.99
Estimated lifetime revenue
$638.3K
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$446.8K
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
209.0K
≈ 10 sales per review
Reviews
21,363
Very Positive93% positive
Playing now
48
25-day peak 56 · low 37
New reviews, last 25 days
+112
≈ 4 a day since Sep 17
History
Sep 17 – Oct 12
21.4K21.3K21.3K21.2K
Sep 17Sep 29Oct 12
Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.
How it compares
FPS →Against the 120 most-reviewed FPS games on Steam
Outearns 23% of them — in the bottom quarter of the group.
Median
$17.86M
145,567 reviews
Top 10% start at
$82.64M
This game
$638.3K
Fewest reviews of the group
The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.
About
Made by Gearbox Software and originally released in 2001 as an add-on to Half-Life, Blue Shift is a return to the Black Mesa Research Facility in which you play as Barney Calhoun, the security guard sidekick who helped Gordon out of so many sticky situations.
- Developer
- Gearbox Software
- Publisher
- Valve
- Genre
- FPS
- Released
- Jun 1, 2001
- Steam app ID
- 130
- Data updated
- Oct 12, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.