Black MesaServer Hosting

Black Mesa is Crowbar Collective's ground up reimagining of Half-Life on the Source engine, rebuilt across fifteen years of development and finished with the Definitive Edition update. The campaign runs nineteen chapters as Gordon Freeman, from the resonance cascade through the desert surface levels to an entirely reworked Xen. Alongside it sits a multiplayer deathmatch component with ten maps drawn from the Half-Life universe, including Crossfire, Stalkyard, Gasworks, Undertow, Bounce and Workshop.

Black Mesa deathmatch is a pick up and play mode, which means it only works when there is a server sitting there ready. Hosting your own keeps a room open for a group of friends or a small community, with the map cycle, slot count, round timing and admin rules under your control, and Workshop maps installed on the server so everyone downloads the same rotation. Because it is a Source engine game it is light on resources, so a permanent server for a regular crowd costs very little to keep running.

Game Host Bros will run Black Mesa on AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and EPYC processors with NVMe storage, which is comfortably more than a Source dedicated server needs and leaves plenty of room for custom maps and plugins. You will get full file access through our control panel for editing server.cfg and the map cycle, enterprise-grade DDoS protection, automatic backups and 15 global server locations. If you already run a Black Mesa server elsewhere, we will migrate it across for free.

Black Mesa is sold on Steam for Windows and Linux, with crossplay between the two. It ships with the Black Mesa Source SDK, so mappers and modders can build new content and publish it to the Steam Workshop, and server operators can install those maps and models directly. Standard Source server tools apply, including console commands, RCON and configuration files for every gameplay setting.

Game Host Bros will offer Black Mesa server hosting from $7.99/mo. Rent a dedicated Black Mesa deathmatch server with instant setup, Workshop map support, automatic backups and 15 global locations to choose from.