I wouldnt be suprised if Andreas Rönnberg was inspired by this while making afraid of monsters, or even cry of fear for that matter. Ill have to check this mod out, it looks pretty cool.

Good memories of not winning while playing this on sven coop. The train part lol so many people tried to get you killed on purpose there

That one little spider creature is 100% taken from john carpenters the thing from 1982. Love little details like that

I remember accidentalyl stumbling upon this when i was trying to play Half life expansions in SVEN Co-op. I had used the server before, but this time instead of sending me to a place where i could select an expansion, it just started me in the beginning of the crypt with no information or instruction. Legit? It was actually creepy as hell! I was on edge the whole time! So impressive. That zombie which pops out of the cask and attacks the Jesus painting is what told me that this would be some spooky stuff.

Fun fact: there’s actually a mod in Gmod that adds in all the npcs from They Hunger, so that’s cool

In my opinion the half-life 1 graphics add a ton to the the atmosphere it has that creapy ps1/n64 vibe. I only played the game for the first time a few months ago but leaving the tunnels to see the signs of the early morning and zombies across the river will always stay with me.

Neil is alive. They team that wanted to rebuild lost souls got a lot of stuff done but couldnt go past some maps without having the source codes. They managed to get Neils email. And if its true he answered them once. This the complete log: With Pavel I also tried to email Neil (the creator of They Hunger) to learn something about him and the plot and the development of THS, but he once answered and the next times did not answer Us: "Hello Neil, (i think this mail is alive ) I'm Kirill Davydkin, with Pavel Karpovich, wants make a rebuild (rework, rewrite) of they hunger lost souls. Someone released a 2008/04 build on mod DB, i see this build in 2019, we love the They hunger franchise very much and want to make the franchise again alive. So we started to make this game, from the 2008/04 build, playable. And we touched the " wall ".That wall isn't passable, because we don't have source files or the newest build. We can create maps from screenshot, but we don't know how accurate the plot maps will be. So we need : 1 - The newest build if source filed losted 2 - Source .dll files if nothing losted .The work will be released June , or July anyway if you give us source files or not. But if you give us source files we can create"they hunger lost souls rebuild "more carefully without errors.But at build released in 2022 from mod DB there are few bugs like: - No fire, weapons and prop_vehicle buggy tooWe will believe that someday you will give us the source files, and we will not give them to anyone and will only use them in they hunger rebuild ." He: "Hi Kirill, There is no build for Lost Souls out there. All that could be out there is partial, incomplete stuff. Only Einar and I had the full game. And, I no longer have the game. Cyas, ~n "

I loved They Hunger so much. Got it in the discs that came with the magazines. I was a little too young to not just freak out though. I remember I spent a lot of time looking through the models with Model Viewer, and listening to the sound effects. There's a lot of cool detail in the characters! One zombie has a dismembered arm punched through its chest holding a gun pointed up to under their head, and their head is blown apart. Implying someone punched a gun through them, shot them in the head, and still didn't mnage to kill them. And then the zombie is just walking around with that arm and gun still in it.

"I was not alive in the 1990s" sir I felt myself shrivel up like a raisin. Bless you.

I remember the first time I played They Hunger during a cold autumn night back in 2009 when I was 11. I downloaded and installed the game all by myself after seeing the screenshots, and binging tons of zombie movies. I remember the ambiance of the game being rather dark (the first one at least), I did not understand a word of english back then so the humourus aspect of the game did not appear to me. I remember replaying this game so many times, and now it feels like it was such a long time ago...

they hunger is pretty god-damn fun frankly

This mod isn’t nearly as spooky as what I’m going to do to you when I find you, richter.

Damn it I was planning on making this exact video! It's great to see it get some coverage though! :P

Thank you Richter. Very cool.

Having a PhD in theoretical physics and surviving an alien invasion is one thing, but this protagonist just writes books.

its a bit of a yearly tradition now to play through they hunger in sven with the half life discord, and every time we get to the reveal of the big monster guy the whole server right clicks with the shotgun at the exact same time and he dies immediately

I can’t wait to see 0:31 to be the most replayed part

0:28 and now everyone will ask what sauce for this.

Perfect video you made just in time for the Halloween season. Great job!

I love hearing about obscure, old games and mods, especially ones that were once well-known back in their day. Something like seeing digital playgrounds that are now abandoned.

Oh my god the intro of “zombies, gay skeletons, women, are you scared yet?” is killing me

This mod sounds interesting. Awesome video as always!

They Hunger is one of those cooler mods out of them all, building a genuinely solid foundation for itself & standing out pretty well from Half-Life. If the original studio that made it compiled & connected all three campaigns together & released it separately as it's own game on Steam or some other site (with permission from Valve of course), it could've been one of the very few Gold Source titles ever made & released, & probably one of the best. The entire scenario it takes place in is unique to a zombie game, usually they take place in the present, during one of the two World Wars (for some reason) or in the future at some point. It's very creative for what it is & it's very creative for the limited tools they had at their disposal. Overall it could be claimed as the pioneer of videogame mods, there was a very slim amount beforehand, nothing really impressive, & after They Hunger the modding community became much larger & much more involved creating great experiences like Team Fortress & Counter Strike. Technically DOOM & Quake had strong modding scenes before Half-Life, but I don't count them because those mods weren't as expansive nor are they as cared for today. Now, just to fill my daily quota: Having They Hunger on Dreamcast & PS2 is so cool, I like PC gaming but I will always love Console gaming more & my favourite console is the Dreamcast, so knowing I can play They Hunger on my favourite console is so awesome & very impressive from the modding community. Another thing I wanted to mention is that at 20:55 you turn to look at the player next to you & his name is Soldier of Fortune, which is actually a classic FPS game from 1999 made by Activision, the same folks who now publish Call of Duty, & Soldier of Fortune is also on Dreamcast & I believe PS2, so I've fulfilled two Dreamcast references from one video, nice.

One of my absolute favorite mods, I remember playing this back in the early years of the 2000s... And then following the development blog for the sequel, checking the website every day. It's sad what happened, though I doubt anyone would blame him for almost freaking dying.... This was just a nostalgic blast for me!

This was soooooo good back in the day. Still is today. Cool to see someone cover this.

Oddly enough I knew about They Hunger due to Spike and Barley playing it. They never really finished it but it was the entry point for me. I feel most horror media always fall into the need to overly explain the "why" on monsters existence, but I get that at one point they kind of have to (either interest by the viewers or by the characters themselves). With that said I'm glad They hunger holds from doing it too early and lets you wander around amidst the chaos. And honestly it's kind of hard to chose between never explaining and upsetting the viewers or explain it and fall into a not-so-spooky cliché. Either way one thing is certain, the last helicopter battle is straight up BS. No ammo reload or health packs, could've at least give us a silly turret segment and be done with it. Hopefully someone decides to pick up the leaked files and do something with it. Can't be legally worse than the TF2 projects honestly. And yeah, the lead dev DOES look like the Unabomber.

Gotta say i did not expect you to cover this. Very nice to see.

I remember playing this as a kid (I was about 9 years old and far too young) and it terrified me. I managed to get through it, but when I was coming to the end of the first episode, I could hear screaming down the street. At first, I thought it was in the game, but then when I realised it was real, I thought a zombie apocalypse was actually happening. My parents went outside to see what was going on, and I went with them, only to see that a small block of flats at the end of our street was on fire and people were evacuating. As far as I know, no one was hurt, but it was still scary and a weird coincidence. Apparently it was started by someone throwing a lit cigarette into the trash chute.

this is really a richter overtime moment

Oh man, more nostalgia here then I expected! I recognize those DM maps and I forgot that I used to play the deathmatch a lot with my LAN group. It was my dad, his friend, and my friends, and even though it wasn't that great it was just more HL which we were desperate for. I was 8 years old when this came out and it was too scary for me! I think I managed to beat the first campaign though. I always loved the music at the start.

Throughout the whole video, when the picture of Neile came up I could only think of the unibomber. Then when you made the comparison at the end it cracked me up, thank god I was not the only person who thought that.

Hey man just discovered ur channel via the raven wood video and i gotta say these half life video's are super entertaining and i really enjoy You're editing. keep killing it while ill check out the rest of youre video's

First spooky thing I've watched in October 🧡🎃

in half life 2, i quickly fell in love with the ravenholm levels as they were as rustic as the name itself. i was always upset at how short that chapter was, and this mod for me is like if ravenholm got an extension pack

They Hunger manages to legitimately unnerve and creep me out sometimes even today. I guess playing the game alone in my basement with headphones on did it.

This is my favorite game/mod. I really love the atmosphere and while not perfect it's something that I love to go back every once in a while.

I was gonna play it and this video reminded me to do that, also nice video as always keep it up mister richter

I played this mod during covid. Each episode becomes increasingly more terrifying. The episodes are really well made, especially for the time.

I remember playing this back in 2004 and thought it didn't exist and I dreamed it up until I saw VargSkelethor Joel play it. Good video. Wouldn't have thought about it ever again had youtube not recommended this video

Sven co-op's adaptation of they hunger is amazing

I have so much nostalgia for this game. Sitting in my attic bedroom in the late 90’s with a big grey CRT monitor and some default pc speakers. Loved it. Tried it recently on Sven (another mod I have massive nostalgia for) and the difficulty was way higher! Especially playing it solo on coop with little to no health pickups

This mod was such a classic! My first Half Life mod I ever played, and I thought it did a really good job with the atmosphere and scares.

Never thought I would hear metal gear solid 2 music in a video about a half-life spooky mod. A great combination sir

Came here from Zesty Jesus's stream. Absolutely loving the content you put out!

I've gone back and played They Hunger every few years since I was a kid. A classic.

0:00) The video barely even started and I'm in love with it already!

this game was so amazing, I remember my brother and I being so enthralled by this project

Good afternoon, guy named "Richter Overtime" who I assume works overtime. Thank you for the video.

One of my favorite mods back in the day. Made that Halloween fun that year :)

I watched the first five seconds of this video and knew I needed to play this mod. absolutely love campy 90's horror. This mod reminded me of my favorite game, Blood(1997), i'm almost certain there was some inspiration there. I loved the atmosphere of the campane and thought it was really fun to play. the third chapter was unfortunate, but I think it was a good addition to the story and I also love the ending song its really a great way to wrap everything up.

Excellent as always rictor Richter

can anyone tell me the name of the mod on 0:30 ? for scientific pourpuses...

Truly the best intro of all time

nice video dude 👍

One of the best mods released for Half-Life, I still remember downloading it when it released, it was pretty scary for it's time. I looked forward to They Hunger 2 for Half-Life 2 for so long before they shut it down. I still hope we will see it someday.

They Hunger is genuinely one of my favorite games.

i'd assume Stonehenge was chosen because its true purpose has always been pretty mysterious, and as such a lot of fiction has used it as the setting for random cult behaviour (like The Mystery of the Druids, for example).

An absolute classic! Gotta love it.

Seroyga King Ring is not something i would not expect in is richter overtime video.

thank you for the content, Richter.

God, this is without a doubt one of my favorite HL1 mods. Such iconic voicelines from each undead, and not to mention the setpieces. Also "Death to Humans!"

I cant think of may things that have genuinely unsettled me more than the scene of the nurse opening the curtain in the newborn room while a baby cries and turns around to reveal she was a zombie, the shock that ran through me was an experience i havent felt since

They Hunger is such a fun, cheesy little classic! Such a damn shame it never got an official Source Engine game! Also, the PC Gamer advertising gives me nostalgia.

i recently played they hunger and it was k00l, but heart of evil will always be my favourite. there's a lot of nostalgia involved but i just find the setting, aesthetic and '00s teenage modding humour that much better.

I remember playing the first one when it came out. I had no idea they made 2 more! It was a great mod

This game permanently imprinted in my brain to randomly go "hungeeerr" and "fleshhhh" when playing games with my friend

Nice bit of nostalgia. They Hunger was easily my favourite single-player mod for HL1, as a teen with too much free time in the early 2000s. And TBH, the main thing I remember from this was the first Zork sequence.

Early Half life modding was my whole inspiration in becoming a game dev. I didn't have much access to technology or internet but I did get to play things like Halflife and Unreal Tournament and that early age of ingenuity was such a beautiful moment. They hunger was one of those few things I did get to enjoy.

This mod is one of the best mods out there and one of the reasons why i love and played Half live back in the day i play this mod even today after 4 years of me first staring it

3:03 cant hear this without also hearing the sven co op sound effects in my head

I was trying to remember the name of this mod to replay it, I think about it every other October ty

They Hunger was my first taste of Half-life mods, it was very cool.

You’re a chad for making captions 👍

I remember playing through the They Hunger trilogy after stumbling on it on ModDB somewhere around the early-mid 2010s. Was old news by then, but even as someone with no knowledge of it up until then I really enjoyed the experience overall, mostly because it has a really neat sort of Halloween-like atmosphere, where it's just the right combination of creepy, campy and 'retro' to make it feel very endearing and all-around fun.

I remember playing this mod when I was a teenager. It was super fun playing the mod, although the final boss was insanely tough.

They Hunger, my beloved ❤ I have many fond memories of stumbling through this game on my own, and many more of the Sven Co-op adaptation with friends.

i love that thumbnail scientist

sweet, i absolutely loved this back in the day

Dang, imagine being commissioned by a magazine to create a whole video game as an advert

"I was not alive in the 1990s" hit me for 10 psychic damage

According to Alfred and the various tape recorders in the asylum, Doctor Franklin wasn't insane and doing cruel experiments but was studying the zombies before becoming infected/zombified. The last tape recorder you find in the asylum before you climb up an elevator into a garage has a recording of him made after he got infected and went insane. The final boss fight isn't that bad if you are good at saving ammo (you can just melee most zombies if you're careful) and/or modify the skill.cfg file (I do that to make some things less unbalanced, like the zombie bull health for example) to make the difficulty less absurd. Going for headshots and meleeing zombies in the face saves you an absurd amount of ammo. I found it a lot easier to beat the helicopter boss fight by saving any grenade launcher ammo I found, quicksaving, and then using the MP5/G3's grenade launcher when the helicopter got close enough. In the Sven Co-op version of They Hunger, the "ranch gun" and "battle rifle" are an M14 battle rifle and M16/AR-15 assault rifle respectively. Also, the Tec-9 or AP-9 that appeared in the original mod was replaced by an M3 submachine gun (sadly it has only 20 rounds instead of 30 rounds and is often overlooked for the 50-round Tommy gun by most players).

Very epic Mr.Overtime

love the video, thanks for bringing this to my attention! Just wanted to ask, which mod specifically did you get from moddb? Theres a few haha, wanna get the right one

It's crazy how the headless zombie still knows exactly where you are . I think the marines should've been on the player's side unlike the original hl don't you think ?

richter its 9:46 am i havent slept i cant be watching this i will anyway because i like your videos i hope you know im sacrificing my health for you

Theres also a very fun bonus gamemode in the sven coop's version called escape

Neil Manke used to make Quake maps feel like he got the atmosphere from there.

Wish you mentioned the They Hunger map in Sven Coop that you have to get three parts to a car, repair it and escape. There's even a permadeath mode and random classes for each player

im glad i saw a gman review on this mod that i never heard of and doesnt knew this thing even exist before, then i played it myself and it became one of my all times favorites

Yo will you do a video on the Heilwald loophole? the hospital part reminded me of it

I heard "I was not alive in the 1990s" and felt myself die a little more inside.

YEYEYE another richter ontime video

This mod is very hard to find, randomly stumbled appon this mod when i was browsing trough sven coop and found a copy, gave it a try and didn’t understand a thing, so now i am here

I remember playing this damn mod back when I was around 7. It scared the hell out of my but it was so well done !!

i remember it, it was one of the first half life mods i played, i can still 'hear' the lines "mommy's hungry" "flesh creature" good times

All the times I played this back in the day and I never knew about that massive Bullsquid underwater.

This looks awesome! Reminds me of afraid of monsters a lot. I’ll have to check it out

I remember finding it on the cover cd for PC Gamer magazine. Considering the limitations of the engine it was very atmospheric and I'd love a remaster.

i love they hunger man. you making my nostalgia part of my brain light up rn

They Hunger exist inside the game Sven coop and it's regularly played in servers where you can pick and choose a campaign through vote where people walk to what campaign they want.