1-2 GB · South Africa
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Gravity gun deathmatch, still running after two decades
- Per month
- R79
- Peak players
- 164
- Positive on Steam
- 91%
What it is
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Valve. Released on Steam on November 30, 2004, it uses many of the assets from Half-Life 2 and its Source engine. It features new levels, optimized for multiplayer arena play, and a few new weapons.
Where to look things up
Half-Life WikiRun by players on Fandom, not by us. Where you look up recipes, commands and server config for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. Description from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Plans
Sized for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Toilets as projectiles and physics that never got old. A tiny server for a group that already knows the maps.
- Peak players
- 164Busier than 27% of the games we host. Our own reading, 4 so far.
- What players think
- 91%Of 15,331 reviews on Steam. Very Positive.
1 to 2GB, against every plan we sell
- 1GB5 playersR79
- 2GB5 playersR99
- 4GB10 playersR189
- 6GB10 playersR249
- 8GB20 playersR329
- 12GB20 playersR499
The solid bar is the smallest plan that runs Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. Faded bars run it with room to spare. Greyed plans sit outside its range. Player counts are what the plan carries, not a benchmark of this game.
How busy it is
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch against the other shooter games.
Peak concurrent players on Steam, measured rather than estimated. Bars are to scale against each other, so a game almost nobody plays looks like one.
- Counter-Strike 21,184,605
- Team Fortress 256,934
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord42,483
- Left 4 Dead 232,426
- Arma Reforger14,413
- Counter-Strike 1.611,345
- SCP: Secret Laboratory8,866
- Half-Life 2: Deathmatch164
Running a Half-Life 2: Deathmatch server
Patch notes, guides and the commands you need.
Release notes come from the developer. Everything else goes to the game's own wiki, written by the people who play it.
- 2026-08-25Valve updated a bunch of their older Steam shootersGamingOnLinux
- 2026-08-24Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Update ReleasedDeveloper
- 2025-02-18Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Update ReleasedDeveloper
- 2024-11-16Half-Life 2: Deathmatch was the best multiplayer mode ever, or maybe I just think that because it's the only one I was ever good atPC Gamer
Last checked 2026-08-25
What players say
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, in the words of people who play it.
A review from Steam, picked by how many other players found them helpful. About the game, not about us, unedited, and linked so you can check.
I think I bought this back in like 2005.. Good game, better without dial-up.
38 hours played1 found it helpfulRead it on Steam
Get started
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, private from the first minute.
Hosted in South Africa from R79 a month, with the players and the file access already in the price.