Last year multiple friends and I started to calculate Gordon Freeman’s kill count across his entire modern-day Half-Life series. At the time we knew Freeman’s body count was over 1,000 casualties, but we wanted to wait till Black Mesa (specifically Xen) was finished before finalising said count. That didn’t happen till May, in the midst of corona, but we did find a way to remotely record, count and document everything.

Now we finally have Freeman’s final kill count. If you want the TL;DR, we found that Freeman personally gunned down or crowbarred 1,527 hostiles. Here’s a breakdown if the community wants to verify our work...

Black Mesa (2012): 399 kills

Black Mesa: Xen (2020): 178 kills

Half-Life 2 (2004): 751 kills

Episode One + Episode Two (2006 + 2007): 199 kills

Each instalment’s analysis is in this playlist, if that’s alright with the mods. Nobody can deny that Freeman the Messiah is literally a mass murderer in Half-Life 2, including its episodes, and that was despite our attempts to limit Freeman’s…