Join your host Garhdo as they continue to play through Half-Life 2 for the game’s 20th Anniversary. This time they are trying to escape from Ravenholm, one of the most iconic and difficult levels in the game, as Gordon Freeman, separated from his allies at the resistance’s Black Mesa East facility after a Combine attack, finds himself surrounded by Headcrab zombies. Watch Garhdo struggle with low ammo, use the physics defying Gravity Gun, get annoyed as they get lost, and laugh at the mad Father Grigori, the last survivor of Ravenholm. Plus learn more about the game and its lore, including the mysterious G-Man who is observing Gordon Freeman on his journey.

• 0:00 Ravenholm
• 9:00 “Another life to save?”
• 20:02 “Make free use of my traps”
• 24:39 “You have already met my congregation”
• 35:45 “A more suitable gun for you”
• 41:20 Town Square
• 51:51 Garhdo misses the obvious switch…
• 1:02:09 They finally found it
• 1:03:52 “Mend your ways”
• 1:11:32 “Guard yourself well!”
• 1:19:31 “Look to your own salvation.”
• 1:36:38 Back to the surface
• 1:45:45 Shorepoint Base
• 1:50:28 Taking the Coast Road
• 2:02:15 Spying the G-Man
• 2:06:54 New Little Odessa
• 2:16:36 Sign-Off

Recorded May 19th 2024
Published April 9th 2025

This is the shortest part of my Half-Life Let’s Play, even with me missing a very obvious switch for longer than I want to admit, but it does contain Ravenholm, which is perhaps the most iconic level in the first game, as well as its immediate aftermath, including the iconic music piece “Triage at Dawn”.

I hope you enjoy it, and enjoy laughing at how bad I am at games. It will not be the last time I suck as what I am trying to play.