Modders started tinkering with Half-Life: As soon as Alyx came out, modders started tinkering with Half-Life: Alyx, but it was only last week that the official tools were released and the Steam Workshop opened. More than 100 mods have already been released, one of which, of course, allows you to tinker with the lightsaber.

Any first-person VR game could be improved by including a lightsaber, but "Half-Life: Alyx" in particular seems like a place where a lightsaber would really belong. Alyx already has Jedi-like feats up its sleeve and gloves. See the Force in action.

There is currently a training map, the only place you can use a lightsaber, where you can try out standard, double-blade, and extra-long variations. It's still being tweaked and you may find hit-and-run issues. Adding a lightsaber is not as simple as just reskinning an existing melee weapon; Valve experimented with a melee combat system and tested a crowbar, but cut it because they could not get it to work the way they wanted.

Despite this, the mod looks great so far. The first update also added force attack to Alix's abilities, so all we need to do now is get her to be able to cut off her limbs.