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The Orange Box: Portal, Half-Life 2 & More (PC Digital Download)

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$20

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Steam has Valve's The Orange Box (PC Digital Download) on sale for $3.99.

Thanks to Community Member 23adrock for finding this deal.

Note, Steam account and client application required to purchase/play (free to join).

Includes:
  • Half-Life 2
  • Half-Life 2: Episode One
  • Half-Life 2: Episode Two
  • Portal
  • Team Fortress 2
    • Note: Team Fortress 2 is now a Free-to-Play title

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Written by SlickDealio | Staff
  • About the deal:
    • This deal is $16 less (80% savings) than the regular price.
  • About the game:
    • For an in-depth review of The Orange Box, head over to PC Gamer

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Written by 23adrock
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Steam has Valve's The Orange Box (PC Digital Download) on sale for $3.99.

Thanks to Community Member 23adrock for finding this deal.

Note, Steam account and client application required to purchase/play (free to join).

Includes:
  • Half-Life 2
  • Half-Life 2: Episode One
  • Half-Life 2: Episode Two
  • Portal
  • Team Fortress 2
    • Note: Team Fortress 2 is now a Free-to-Play title

Editor's Notes

Written by SlickDealio | Staff
  • About the deal:
    • This deal is $16 less (80% savings) than the regular price.
  • About the game:
    • For an in-depth review of The Orange Box, head over to PC Gamer

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Written by 23adrock

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enfox
52 Posts
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still milking the same box 😕 where is hl3?
reh_iii
29 Posts
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Wow $3.99?! I bought the physical box for this in like 2008 for ~$60. If only I had waited 13 years I could have saved a bunch. 🤣
gamingdroid
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This includes everything from Valve for $13-15.

https://store.steampowered.com/bu...lete_Pack/

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Dec 1, 2021
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Chi88
Dec 1, 2021
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In 4 1 Complete Pack got 2 weeks of vacation to burn time for nostalgia overload!
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Dec 1, 2021
182 Posts
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Dec 1, 2021
TiteAzz
Dec 1, 2021
182 Posts
Quote from someones1 :
I still love jumping on TF2 every now and then. Too bad there's so many bots out there and Valve doesn't seem to care to stop them.
Try the skial servers for bot-free TF2 play.

To anyone reading this, Orange Box contains Portal, which is a fantastic, kid-friendly puzzle game. A true 10/10. You can buy Portal ala carte for $2. Portal 2 the 10/10 sequel is also $2.


Dec 1, 2021
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Falqon
Dec 1, 2021
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Quote from junkdealer :
Question to all - why is this only on steam and not Switch or Playstation digital?
These game engines are like 20 years old, and written for x86. No doubt they could be recompiled, but the market is probably not that big to be worth the hassle
Dec 1, 2021
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kenbuzz
Dec 1, 2021
1,735 Posts
Quote from 23adrock :
Factoid - no physical disc version of Orange Box exists. The boxed/disc version just included the Steam client and a steam key for the Orange Box. So that's all you can get on eBay... the box!
Lol, that makes sense. I got the box a few days ago but haven't gotten around to installing the games. Looks like a pair of PC DVD-ROMs, marked like it too, but I just plopped Disc 1 into my PC and looked at the directory....

Setup.exe uses a Steam icon
The installer is SteamInstall.msi

Guess I got suckered in. All because I've never played Portal and thought that this physical copy WAS the game, ported to PC. Oh well, at least I didn't pay $60 thirteen years ago for it. laugh out loud
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Dec 1, 2021
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23adrock
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Dec 1, 2021
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Quote from kenbuzz :
Lol, that makes sense. I got the box a few days ago but haven't gotten around to installing the games. Looks like a pair of PC DVD-ROMs, marked like it too, but I just plopped Disc 1 into my PC and looked at the directory....

Setup.exe uses a Steam icon
The installer is SteamInstall.msi

Guess I got suckered in. All because I've never played Portal and thought that this physical copy WAS the game, ported to PC. Oh well, at least I didn't pay $60 thirteen years ago for it.
I get it. I wanted Orange Box before this sale and I went on eBay and almost did what you did until I researched it a little and found out...
Dec 1, 2021
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Mobius One
Dec 1, 2021
5,811 Posts
This is a great deal as these are some great games. I think I paid $20 for it years ago, but I got a physical edition and I still have the box all these years later
Dec 1, 2021
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satnav4
Dec 1, 2021
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Will this run on Windows 10 and Windows 11?

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Dec 1, 2021
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GoldenTiger
Dec 1, 2021
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Quote from 23adrock :
It's called Alyx and it's awesome!
Lies. Alyx takes place before hl2.
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LabRat810
Dec 1, 2021
186 Posts
Quote from Falqon :
These game engines are like 20 years old, and written for x86. No doubt they could be recompiled, but the market is probably not that big to be worth the hassle
AFAIK, most of the Half-Life/Portal games have been updated to newer versions of source with native X86-64 support, and support for some newer processor extensions.
Anyone more technically knowledgeable on Source/Source 2, please feel free to enlighten me as to the details, or where I'm incorrect.

Yes, these games work on Windows 10. Can confirm.
Windows 11 should be fine too as long as your other system drivers/devices are fully supported by 11.
Even SourceGold engine'd Half-Life 1 and expansions work well on Win10 with newest CPUs.
Last edited by LabRat810 November 30, 2021 at 08:45 PM.
Dec 1, 2021
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scholzpdx
Dec 1, 2021
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Quote from wildman7 :
How is the graphics after these many years?
Mods make the games shine. Thankfully the engine has been multithreaded about a year after release, so modern CPUs do extremely well. Only uses 2 1/2 cores at best, even at insane refresh rates.
Dec 1, 2021
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scholzpdx
Dec 1, 2021
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Quote from LabRat810 :
AFAIK, most of the Half-Life/Portal games have been updated to newer versions of source with native X86-64 support, and support for some newer processor extensions.
Anyone more technically knowledgeable on Source/Source 2, please feel free to enlighten me as to the details, or where I'm incorrect.

Yes, these games work on Windows 10. Can confirm.
Windows 11 should be fine too as long as your other system drivers/devices are fully supported by 11.
Even SourceGold engine'd Half-Life 1 and expansions work well on Win10 with newest CPUs.
The original engine is horribly inefficient. Day of Defeat gets plenty of drops below 60fps with a full server, and this is with a 4Ghz all-core Ryzen 2700, 32GB 3200mhz and a Radeon 590 8GB OC.

I would play it on a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz with a Radeon X850 at full 60fps. When they made it all Linux compatible they really messed performance up.
Dec 1, 2021
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daveangel
Dec 1, 2021
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Quote from reh_iii :
Wow $3.99?! I bought the physical box for this in like 2008 for ~$60. If only I had waited 13 years I could have saved a bunch. 🤣
Well pretty sure I paid $3.99 for this quite a few years ago so don't think u had to wait that long tbh :lol
Dec 1, 2021
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Dec 1, 2021
aralk
Dec 1, 2021
613 Posts
Quote from reh_iii :
Wow $3.99?! I bought the physical box for this in like 2008 for ~$60. If only I had waited 13 years I could have saved a bunch. 🤣
Same here. Lol. Good to be alive... and old. Now it's too dizzy for me to play.
Dec 1, 2021
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ghostfreckle
Dec 1, 2021
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Quote from enfox :
still milking the same box 😕 where is hl3?
They are the OGs of slacking… Think I read somewhere that GRRM is trying to beat them by taking longer to write his next book than they are taking to release the next HL game…
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jakesyma
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Quote from gamingdroid :
This includes everything from Valve for $13-15.
https://store.steampowered.com/bu...lete_Pack/ [steampowered.com]
Thanks for including this.

I had already purchased the Valve Complete Pack a few years ago, which is why I already had the first four titles in the Orange Box collection... but it was still trying to charge me $3.99 to purchase the Orange Box (because I didn't have TF2).

But I clicked on this one, and... it looks like it's allowing me to 're-buy' the Complete Pack (for $0.00)... weird.

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