{"id":1458086,"date":"2026-01-11T16:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iktDEdLh4kKvb7sf4ywPnV"},"modified":"2026-01-11T16:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:45:29","slug":"heres-that-noir-thriller-built-in-the-original-half-life-engine-you-asked-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/heres-that-noir-thriller-built-in-the-original-half-life-engine-you-asked-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s that noir thriller built in the original Half-Life engine you asked for"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There’s been a surprisingly strong run of Half-Life<\/a> total conversions of late, by which I mean there have been two of them. November brought us Diffusion<\/a>, a massively ambitious sci-fi adventure with some truly eye-popping environment design, especially considering the age of its tech. Yes, it featured some terrible AI generated text-to-speech. But its creator is working on fixing that and recently revealed<\/a> some of the human cast for its English dub.<\/p>\n

Now, the GoldSrc engine has been given a lick of black paint in the pulp noir thriller The Last Goodbye<\/a>. Created by Half-Life mod team Guild of Inventors, The Last Goodbye puts you in the stiletto heels of Lucille, a gun-for-hire nicknamed The Banshee who takes on a job to assassinate the deadliest gangster in the City of Prava, a cigar-chomping criminal mastermind known as Bullseye. Between you and your target is an army of pipe-wielding, pistol toting goons desperate to wrap their lips around the barrel of your shotgun.<\/p>\n

While The Last Goodbye clearly has Half-Life in its DNA, its creators say the mod is as much of a puzzle and exploration game as it is a shooter. The Last Goodbye places a big emphasis on storytelling, featuring both in-game dialogue and cutscenes relaying the tale. The latter have a hyper-specific inspiration, namely Tele-snap<\/a> reconstructions of missing Doctor Who episodes.<\/p>\n

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