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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl&hl=en_US&gl=US its this app but you must have the files of half life on your phone
Half-Life 1 and the Blue-Shift expansion:
Download the Xash3D engine from the App Store. The Xash3D app is an engine used to run Half-Life, not a emulator. This means that you can play HL even on potato phones. To run HL on it, you can use one of the many YouTube tutorials to learn more.
Half-Life 2, HL2:EP1, & HL2:EP2
You can play these games on the App Store. You just need to own a nVidia Shield tablet and a controller, I think. If you don't have these, I think there are ways of getting the APKs and playing them on other phones, though it will probably require something equally as powerful as the nVidia device.
Others
You can also play other GoldSrc things using other apps made by the same Xash3D publishers. Counter-Strike 1.6, They Hunger, and Poke464 I am pretty sure are on there. Portal 1 should also be a game on the appstore, but again it was made for the nVidia Shield.
Note that you'll also need the Xash3D app in order to play any of these (and also to play vanilla Half-Life, since the link OP posted is actually for Half-Life Blue Shift)
I also recommend Quad Touch for playing Quake, it contains source ports of the original Quake engine, instead of playing Quake maps on top of Half-Life's engine.
For thoose that are interested, OP uses Xash3D, its a GoldSrc Engine Prort for ARM / (Mobile) Devices.
You can download on Android here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
And its open source <3. https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d
Edit: And yes, I also played through Half-Life on my Phone, it was kinda janky but that somehow made it fun. And thanks to Multiplayer in your Network my friends of me & myself were able to just open a wifi hotspot and we were able to fight each other.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
An Android port of the GoldSource engine. You can just put any GoldSource game's data on your Android device (Half-Life, Blue Shift, Opposing Force, Counter-Strike, Ricochet), and this should be able to run it.
You'll need to download Xash3D FWGS. Then connect to a computer and locate your Half-Life game files, as soon as you've done that copy the 'valve' folder to your device's internal storage and select the file location inside of the Xash3D app.
Open touch gaming makes the best retro fps apps (quake included)
No half life though for that there is xash3d
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
Yea there's an app called Xash3d witch let's you run the half-life games/multiplayer and mods/campaigns. You just need the half life files which is pretty easy to find somewhere on the web. Game runs extremely smooth aswell and the button controls are really neat and customizable.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
Also check their other engine ports for specific games if you need to
It isn't that old, for example, you can make Half Life 1 run on the Xash3D engine (wich is made to be compatible with Goldscr) and it's available in the Playstore
There is this app called xash3d fwgs, it's on the play store, you have to install it, then connect your phone to your pc/laptop, and put half life game files into your phone, then open the xash app, and tell it where the location of half-life is located, and done, it works, You can modify settings and such too.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
It is really possible currently I use Xash3d FWGS on my Motorola G Power and it is running at a stable 90 fps on the snapdragon 655. I dont think you can run xash3d on iphone yet so its android only.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
Using this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
And the game files, the link of which I can't share because that would violate the subreddit's rules on piracy. You can pm me though.
Use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
Then, as its description says, copy the "valve" folder from your steam folder to your phone and select it in the app.
YW and good luck. You want this app for vanilla Half-Life https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
I linked to the dev page before because there are other launchers for stuff like Blue Shift and various mods.
Alternatively, you could try it on your phone. Download Xash3d, copy over the HL files from steam and... Well that's it. It works amazingly well. Once you figure out where the files go it is super easy. The controls are better than any FPS I tried on my phone. Still, I played it on Easy and a couple jumping puzzles (Xen...) were annoying enough to make me use the console commands. I also wouldn't advise a first playthrough but for nostalgia's sake, I don't believe you can find many games quite as good on a phone.
You can also download launchers for most mods and expansions (Blue Shift, Afraid of Monsters...) from the same editor: https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?clp=igM4ChkKEzcwMzkzNjcwOTMxMDQ4MDI1OTcQCBgDEhkKEzcwMzkzNjcwOTMxMDQ4MDI1OTcQCBgDGAA%3D:S:ANO1ljJYygA&gsr=CjuKAzgKGQoTNzAzOTM2NzA5MzEwNDgwMjU5NxAIGAMSGQoTNzAzOTM2NzA5MzEwNDgwMjU5NxAIGAMYAA%3...
I completed They Hunger for the 3rd time and it was still amazing.
It's great! Grab an Xbox one controller and the adapter to mount your phone and the playable games open up wide! Personally been playing twilight princess at times I am just waiting for stuff.
Just started half life 1 again just for the heck of it using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
Way to set it up if you own the game on steam.
Yeah, my bad. Those screenshots were actually taken under Xash3D which seems to be darker than regular GoldSrc.
Here's a composite of shots taken on PC
They looked alright until I posted them here, I guess the white background makes them look even darker though.
This sorcery: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl&hl=en
Just feed it your Half-Life data folder, and you can play Half-Life on an Android device.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl&hl=en_US
Needs game data from Steam or original CDs.
Is your phone Android?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl&hl=en
Just feed it your Half-Life data folder, and you should be able to play Half-Life 1 on it.
Half Life with Xash3d. There are so many devs working to port old PC titles to Android. Check out Beloko/Open Touch Games most are in the Amazon app store but he's working on moving these to Google Play and updating them. So many great classics that our devices can now run.
And it can also run on Android
And Google play claims it's compatible with my Xperia PLAY. Hilarity will ensue.
You can already do that!
Xash3D is an open source GoldSrc reimplementation with an Android version.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
You also need to have the "valve" folder from the PC version of Half-Life.
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> Xash3D FWGS is a fork of Xash3D Engine, which compatible with GoldSrc engine. Allows play Half-Life out-of-the-box and many Half-Life based modifications. To launch Half-Life, you need: - a purchased game in Steam. - installed Xash3D Android. To install: 1) Copy ...
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Halflife 1 can be played using this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl&hl=en_US
You need the data files from pc of course. Gamepad support included too.
Better yet, if he has Android set him up on Xash3D and play natively.
Try this to play half life
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
Is it xash3d ? Not seeing a xlash3d
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
Xash3D. Here's the Google Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
You need the PC game data but once it's set up it works perfectly.
openMW for morrowind & DIII4A for DOOM3 .. you can also play Half Life With The HD Textures on mobile too
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https://forum.openmw.org/viewtopic.php?t=4898
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https://www.apkmonk.com/app/com.n0n3m4.DIII4A/
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl&hl=en_US
You can play Half Life istelf using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl&hl=en_US
Pretty sure it's this one
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
Xash3D - Half Life https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.celest.xash3d.hl
Delta Touch - Doom, Heretic, etc https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opentouchgaming.deltatouch
Quad Touch - Quake 1,2,3, Hexen 2 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opentouchgaming.quadtouch
On Amazon app store - RtCW Touch