Top Most Popular Half-Life Maps

Today we're talking about the most popular maps for Half-Life. The ranking is based on play time and map popularity on various servers (not just ours). The ranking is split into two parts: standard and custom maps. Keep in mind that map popularity can change over time.






No surprises here, it's all pretty predictable. The most popular standard Half-Life map of all time is crossfire. Everyone knows the bunker you have to hide in. The map has been studied inside out; people even know the tricks for getting into the blue room.




Second place goes to a small map with crates. A great map for 1on1 duels.




Bronze goes to Boot Camp, made by Dario Casali. It's a fairly large map, great for clan wars.




Fourth place rightfully belongs to Bounce. A very spacious map that suits various modes: DeathMatch, Team Deathmatch, Arena and others.




Fifth place went to Gasworks, which is missing from early versions of Half-Life (WON). It's one of the biggest standard maps in Half-Life.




Like some of the others, this map is a reworked map from one of the chapters of Half-Life single player.




Sixth place, by a narrow margin, goes to Datacore.



Seventh place went to Rapidcore. The map is similar to Datacore; it's set in some Half-Life lab, probably near the Lambda core.




That's it for the standard maps. Now let's talk about maps that don't come with Half-Life by default but are still pretty popular.




Once again, it's all pretty predictable here. The most popular map is a modification of the standard Crossfire.




Silver goes to Killbox USA. The map is split into two parts: one is fairly big, the other not so much.




Bronze goes to De_Dust 2, ported from Counter-Strike.




StalkX is a modification of the standard Stalkyard map. It's mainly meant for arena.




A small map. It's a street, 1337 Street, with several houses you can get into and climb onto the roofs of. The design isn't top-notch, but the map takes fifth place in our ranking.




The second killbox in our ranking is Killbox 2. The map's design is very weak, but that didn't stop it from becoming popular.




Seventh place goes to Cabrito. A fairly large and maze-like map.




A modification of the standard Frenzy map.




The last place in our ranking goes to the most secret map of all: 2000_2. The map has several modifications and successors, among them 6000_6v6 and hldm_forever, which didn't make it into our ranking.