Thrill-EX is a semi-official fork of Thrill, a complete Half-Life Alpha Recreation mod.
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What happened to original Thrill?
Let's address the elephant in the room. Those who still remember, Thrill released back in 31 December of 2025, then few days later the mod got deleted, and then later an entire page went down. For those wondering what went wrong, sorry, literally nobody has an answer here. The original developer deleted the mod himself and then vanished from the web completely, leaving all his accounts inactive since then and there is no way for us to contact him. This decision was never discussed with anybody from the team.
Gladly, original developer made Thrill completely open-source, it was his own intention, despite deleting the mod, all repositories are still publicly available for anyone to use. Knowing that this mod is somewhat important for those interested in early Half-Life content, we thought of making our own fork.
What is Thrill EX?
Thrill EX is a semi-official fork of Thrill maintained by original contributors. It is an extended take on original Thrill with various additions. EX is not meant to be 1:1 accurate recreation of early Half-Life, but tries to be as authentic as possible with it's new additions. If anybody wants to play the original Thrill release, it will be archived on this page, until the original developer returns.
Currently 1.0 release is meant to be a more accessible version of Thrill with various quality of life improvements and customization options, making the overall experience more smooth. 1.0 Initial Release of Thrill EX features:
- Plenty of fixes
- Attempts to make level design a bit more intuitive
- Customization
- New and fixed assets
We have plans for future releases, like fixes, additions for the campaign and SDK with a proper documentation. We'll see what comes next, this is not an end for Thrill.
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Thrill-EX v1.0.3_1
Full Version 12 commentsPatch addressing various problems from previous releases, and adding stuff that couldn't be added to prior versions.
Concept art hivehand remodel
Model Pack 2 commentsthis is hivehand concept art remodel why VALVE rejected to make from concept art?
HEV Mk II recreation (RTB HEV)
Weapon Skin 2 commentsLike the previous add-on, it includes the centered MP5 and alternative heads for the player model.
Krystal Ted 4 Thrill
NPC Model 10 commentsWith this Model You Can Having Dermoker-ifying feeling in youre Eyes ears and mouth When playing Thrill 2 and more fun times if you want
Alpha 0.52 Glock for Thrill EX
Weapon Model 5 commentsReplaces the Glock's viewmodel with the one from the 0.52 prototype.
Concept Art Barnacle Remake
NPC Skin 4 commentsThis addon takes the concept art Barnacle recreation from the mod "Half-Life Alpha in GOLDSrc" and puts it in ThrillEX as a replacement for the retail...
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i tried both half-life absolute zero and thrill ex, I can say thrill ex is much much better. i don't even know why they replaced shotgun on office complex with mp5. It also felt more empty, enemy placements felt wrong. But thrill ex was perfect. Good job
Can't agree more. Thrill ex also has the advantage of being complete and not being abandoned for 12+ years.
Can barely move my mouse around, it gets stuck after moving it 20-45 degrees or so, any fix?
try enabling \ disabling some things in mouse options
thats a half-life bug itself (kind of)
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going to sound dense but admittedly i've never bothered with addons for mods before, how do you get them running for this? i've set up the thrillex_addon folder and dropped the files for each addon into the models folder and had no luck, tried different spellings in case that was the issue but again, no dice. apologies for the question but if you could give some advice i'd appreciate it, otherwise loving the mod so far.
Enable addon content in options?
yeah i've made sure that's ticked and it doesn't turn up
Also enabled under regular hl1?