Wtf Happened To Sven Co-op? 

I still like Sven, I just think it's more of a friends-only kind of game. My best memories were booting up the pizza map and playing They Hunger with my bros, and I feel like that's more or less the intended experience.

I still play sven regularly, there are a bunch of populated servers with plenty of fun to be had still, it's also literally over 20 years old. Considering the premise and basis of the game , basically a sandbox, that's extremely good life out of such a genre.

My dude, I was playing this 20 years ago, me and my buddies still like to load up OMGCity, any of the coop campaigns, they hunger, you name it we still play it. The fact that it's on Steam now and always going to be accessible means it's never going to completely *die*.

to be honest this game is played better with small groups rather than big ones. more personal COOP experience that way

I used to play this game religiously from 2011 to 2013. There was one server I always joined; it was special, as I met lots of friends and made great memories there. A decade later, I found the same server, but it was empty, abandoned-a shell of its former self. I miss this game dearly, along with the server and the friends I made during that journey.

I myself still play it frequently, i love the casual fun this games gives, specially with all the crazy things that happen in servers.

I wouldnt say its more of a "dead" game, the game is still hella lot of fun to play with friends and all, and the modding community still does some maps and stuff there but its definitely been a whole lot slower compared to like 2017~ish It can also be the fact that the game hasnt been updated for 2 years but frankly, its still suprising that they still sometimes update the game If you check out the most popular servers right now, its certainly is divided, some prefer SCXPM and have a good chill time, some prefer hardcore 1 hp gameplay where you idle\die a lot. Its pretty suprising how diverse sven gameplay can be these days but at the same time you might stick to it so much that youre just gonna burn out from either playing the same hardcore campaign maps over and over or play the same official pool of maps because the server operator didnt bother adding maps or something People also looked forward for the 5.0 release but its was quite a harsh launch with servers crashing and friendly fire apparently being a thing, which is why the player record went down drastically

Wtf you saying. Sven has an active community, with regular new maps released all the time. The devs keep working on it albeit slowly and there are massive new updates every now and then. The only reason you'd say its dead is because it has a small playerbase. All coop games have small player bases, and because this one has oldschool graphics its even smaller. Because people likes the normie stuff with pvp like fortnite, battlebit, diablo, etc but those people will be playing another game next month when the hype is gone and repeat this cycle over and over.

Dude there's 393 players right now, from July last year to my post, SteamDB says there's been between 300 and 550 players at all times.

People still play. Gotta get used to seeing the same faces though. Only a few people left, so, of course that means hanging by a thread. But a strong thread.

I hate these clickbait videos, thumbnail shows 0 players but clearly shows players. Doesn't go into any of the actual history, like why its called Sven Co-op. Not a single chum toad shown, no Sven Co-op lore (Don't feed the Puchi, Nomble as examples). The downfall is simple, lack of new content. Thankfully workshop wasn't added fastdl > Workshop.

The game isn't dead.

VALVE disabled DirectX support for goldsource games, and instead of just discontinue it they actually removed it from game's code, after that performance of the game was low and you need to install meta hook to make it playable. For example with my old GPU (i think it was nvidia 970 or smthng) i got stable 300-400 fps before, after they did it, with all my graphic cards even with latest 3060ti fps can drop to 15-20 sometimes.

I'm relatively new to sven coop, but I've fallen in love with the hardcore difficulty servers which see a steady flow of players daily!

Sven co-op is not dead who said dead ? Weird.. People still enjoy Sven Co-op a lot Also some half-life mod still port to Sven Co-op map for user.

Sven Coop reached its peak when it came to Steam because before that, the mod had a small dedicated playerbase but as the years go by, the hype fades away and so does the interest people have towards that mod. Played a lot of it a decade or so ago but these days, there are far better options for coop games unless nostalgia draws you in.

Damn, I remember playing Sven back in 2000 when it first came out, I had no idea it became such a thing in 2016...

I used to play this when I was 12, every day after school the first thing id do was play this on my old cheap laptop, it was some of my best memories. I went back to play for that nostalgia a few weeks ago and was absolutely blown away at how dead the game was. It was a very, very lonely feeling. I miss sven co-op so much, Im glad someone other than me noticed :')

Hi. Neat video! I've been mapping for Sven Co-op since 1999. Myself and others who play Sven Co-op still don't consider the Mod dead. The spike in players around 2016 was likely because it was allowed on Steam as a Free Download for the first time (you didn't need to own Half-Life 1 first and then install Sven Co-op anymore) There are thousands of active players and hundreds of active mappers/modelers/coders for this wonderful mod still active. We will tend to play on the weekends for instance or a few times a month. Some missteps from the Developers contributed to the mods decline. Internal Team struggles and a refusal to add a Workshop feature, as well as the deletion of the Official Forum and over reliance on the Sven Co-op Discord all contributed to it's decline in my opinion. Glad that this video is doing well and maybe it can invite people back to the mod!

I still play it, servers are regularly active.

Sven Co-op perhaps one of the more accessible ways to get into the HL and goldsource world without spending a dime and not pirating any game. It's simple, it has tons of mods and as the name implies it relies heavily on co-op (obviously) rather than PvP. I don't think the game will disappear so easily tho, and with the hype old Goldsource games are starting to regain overtime... Perhaps the servers will be able to fill up a bit even for a little while. It's one of the better HL mods out there that really emphasizes on what Goldsource is still capable of doing.

Saw this video right after I just got done playing Sven Co-op for a few hours.

I think this was pretty much inevitable. Most use cases of Sven before the Steam release we're pretty much just used as a way to play Half-Life and mods with your buds. The steam release brought it to a lot of new people and it was a fun new thing for a while. That being said, most of those people got there fill of it pretty quick and moved on. It doesn't help that most of the maps don't really seem to be designed around having a whole sever full of people playing them. Maybe its a little sad I guess, but in all reality Sven Co-Op is just a tool and its one that's extremely easy to use now.

This video feels like it was scripted by ChatGPT I swear. Dude just repeats the same phrases of "this mod's been forgotten about" over and over, never explaining why it's even an issue since it was always about playing with friends. Can't even give a concrete reason as to why tf anyone should care that Sven-coop isn't talked about in 2 entire minutes.

As absurd as this sounds, Sven coop mappers and modders need to cater to solo players as well, A map that is played coop, Should be beatable in solo play as well, In this case sven would become a better alternative to half life

One of the best Co-op mods. I had a maaaayor problem with trying to enable friendly fire since they removed it completly, which makes like 0 fucking sense and still kinda pissed me off lol but one of the best coop horror available on the steam store.

The generation of gamers that grew up playing this game have aged and moved onto other games or other things in life, the halcyon days of sven coop are in the past, and all of us who experience that time we should be grateful for that.

Stop clickbaiting bro

"This game was everywhere in 2014-2016" is a bizarre sentence to read when this mod's actual heydey was around 2002-2004.

1:47 I gotta love that censorship there. If there's one thing I remember often from Sven Co-op, it's those NSFW images all over the walls.

There's so many maps i didn't finished because there was no people who wanted to play... maybe that's why i stopped playing it since 2019, anyways if someone wants to play it let me know

Ya know with the Half Life 25th Anniversary I hope Sven Co-op gets an influx of players.

i am still playing Sven but only because i got HL1 for free and can finnaly play somenthing with friends other than..........roblox

yeah it will always be there, I dont think sven CO OP will ever just dissapear

I still play Sven,pretty funny no matter what and new content is still released thanks to modders,but sometimes what really kills the game are some admins (fortunately not in all servers) who are pretty arrogant and treat you like sh*t by not helping you if you die,rushing and using a lot of code cheats,ruining completely the experience,i've seen some admins who enters a survival campaign only for rushing/farming and not helping anyone only to show others what they are cappable of, and sometimes killing you for no reason, some players left the game because of that

The misfire servers are still active sometimes, there is a leveling system with prestige and multijump...

I used to play it a lot from 2003 and up, before the steam release. All the custom maps was the best, for me who loved half-life it was like an extension, a never ending expansion of the original games. There were also a lot of really fun maps, like the OMG, WTF series of puzzle maps, and the mazes of the secretcity maps that was so chaotic to play in multiplayer as people discovered the secrets of the maps. There was the EndMod era, a kind of mod similar to GMod that predates GMod by several years, in it people could manipulate the maps and entities, and there was specifically built maps for it; the_better_than_the_best_entmap was the most played. In the latter years I regurly played on the SnarkCafe server, it gave the players certain abilites based on how long time one played on it, unlocking things like regenerate health and teleport. After a time similar servers started to popup, servers using an amxmodx XPMod that unlocked abilities based on XP rather then time. I suppose the fun was beginning too fade there, since most people played on such servers rather then regular servers that didn't unlock stuff.

With all the fan remakes of blue shift, opposing force and decay and the already complete Black mesa maybe a Sven co-op 2 😅

There are some servers that are full from like 17-23 almost everyday

It's June 2024 and I still play thing game, can't get over its simplicity and compatibility with new systems and hardware. As far as I understand, Sven devs modified and massively improved the overall compatibility and stability of this game's old "goldsrc" engine. It's the same goldsrc as the original HL1, but improved, which still makes the game relevant to players that simply like nostalgic campaign games with friends. I'm in Middle East, and I play only on European servers because the less ping the better the experience, and the activity there is quite good actually. some servers have 3~5 players, other bigger servers like Misfire usually have about 15 players during evening/night times around Eu/ME, which to be fair is a LOT because some custom campaign maps have too many tight spaces to move around especially in indoors-only maps. This game doesn't have thousands of players, but the few hundreds of players that still do are basically loyal to this game and we'll always stick around and remember each other's names and make fun conversations while making complete chaos in maps and breaking scripts and having a laugh at every fail moments we witness. This alone is worth to stick around.

Sven Co-op team member here (Adambean/AdamR), thanks for the video. The player counts contradict this entirely. (Take a look at the charts from SteamDB from 2016 onwards.) Apart from the initial surge for the Steam release in 2016 and two random bumps (March 2020 for the pandemic and November 2023 for "reasons") the player count has been very flat/stable for about 8 years. We're also still working on updates for this game today. To answer your point about servers being empty, that's not unusual. Other watchers have pointed out that this game is better played privately with people you know instead of in public, or at the very least in a public community of familiar faces, which the server browser doesn't reveal. This aspect about Sven Co-op has always been true.

imagine calling a game dead just because it doesnt have 100 gazillion players daily. like, sven has a few servers that are constantly active and have a lot of players there, what else do you need? if you compare sven coop to other goldsrc mods, it probably has the biggest playerbase out there and its quite impressive for an old ass game there are much bigger issues to sven, like hackers or slow development of updates and all that. low player count aint anywhere close to them and sounds like a joke to me

darkfuture server is trying to bring it back!

I remember playing some weird Korean map on Sven co-op with some of my buds it some pretty weird but it was still pretty fun trying to figure out what to do

idk, i just feel like the novelty wears off. its fun for a bit but it gets boring quiitee quickly. most coop games that are just "shoot things with friends" tend to get quite dull. Thats why pvp tends to be more popular than pve. Best coop experience tends to be puzzle coop stuff and there's not much of it on Sven.

Sven Coop is Garry's Mod of Half-Life 1 and Gordon is highly trained professional

Turns out shooting thousands of rounds to enemies only for them to not die it is pretty fucking boring

Probably still has more of a player base than Synergy.

Yeah back when this game first died, most people left and went to other games, like Garry's mod/Half life 2 role playing/coop servers. All of us who played the original Sven coop before it officially released with Steam, were playing a whole different type of game. It's still there don't get me wrong, but all the ENT Mod maps, all the role play maps where you could be a thief or cop or whatever, all those servers died, they did not come back when Sven re-released, and neither did all the old friends we made while playing old Sven.... Which is the main reason why most people probably stopped playing all together, including myself. I played this game for years and I had a blast lol, but it is better served as a memory. Sven isn't the only game suffering like this though, Zombie Panic Source is almost dead as well, and I used to play that game non-stop for years as well, it had lots of servers up but now it's like no one even plays.

I swear I had like a thousand hours played back in the 2008 - 2012 era.

I assume you are not being serious. As a Sven Coop player for more than 3 years, I can say that you are dead wrong on this if you say Sven is a dead game. Ironically you literally just said 46 servers remain active, and that was just average number per daily basis. Being an old game which it celebrates 24 years old, fact that it has 400+ players and 40+ active servers per month is quite a complimentary result. Sven Coop will never die because its a free game where the playerbase are now accessible by global people from poorer regions, something they can't afford to buy new games like Fortnite, COD Warzone or whatnot. And unlike Half-Life, Sven Coop is a community game, which means the devs actively do bug fixes. It's true that the playerbase has fallen as compare to 10 years ago, but this is mainly also because Sven Coop has not undergo any updates since it 5.25 release in 2021. If Sven devs announces further updates, the playerbase will jump back high again as it happened many times whenever new updates are released.

i play sven not to just play with buddies "i dont have buddies" but to play half life and eventually get the hell out bcuz i got scared of some random alligator or smth

i got a 17 person lobby to do a hardcore mode afraid of monsters run start to finish a few months ago shit was wildin

Bro why you have 383 subs you must deserve 1 million subs

In fact, Sven Co-op is not dead. The game has simply gotten rid of annoying players who saw it as nothing more than a "free Half-Life with co-op". There are still a lot of garbage servers from those players, which gives the impression that the game is dead. But look at servers like twilightzone, or Misfire with their new weapons and SCXPM. The community itself is alive, creating new maps, models, and other content.

I remember how i used to play on one server theres like just a house and u could be like ghost that attacks something like that i miss that old times [ that server died in 2017 and was empty until 2018 and finally being deleted in 2019 ]

svens great fun with some friends, just when the only update is a meme april fool post kinda sucks to see

dude you're not just gonna make a video with banger music without telling me what the first song used was

i often still play Sven but i'm always disappointed as whenever i look at the servers there's barely like 3 people on one server. pretty sad to see sven in such state, especially beacuse i was introduced to it not a very long time ago and i'm still a newcomer.

I remember the resident evil maps like it was yesterday

Sniper (lead “dev” who doesn’t code) screwed everyone, in my 1 interaction with him he was nothing but a prick, and I wasn’t even talking directly to him

Naaah dawg sven is alive and thriving imo. Nice vid tho 👏👏👏💯💯💯

Sven Coop's problem was that there wasn't enough good maps.

There are actually hundreds of servers but most are empty. Even the real half life gets more activity

If sven coop is dead then I dont want to know what zandronum tspg is supposed to be

Love Sven Co-Op. Played Pizza Ya San with about six of my buddies years and years ago. Good times. What's the music starting at 0:26 by the way? Is that a reverbed/muffled version of Slowdeath by Sewerslvt?

good song, really liked background song, what's the name?

i still regularly play it :) keep it alive baybee

is not dead... but the people that triesout the game just plays the campaign and thats it they move on, and the vanilla custom maps arent even that good theres no achievements, and the vanilla gameplay is pretty boring honestly, not even the custom servers have good addicting gameplay personally dont forget that the community is full of weirdos and sometimes pedophiles especially in the spanish one so yeah thats is kinda the reason why this game is probably "dead"

yep, some oldschool players left Sven Coop after update to v5, which is steam only and not everybody likes steam, or stayed at 4.8 version, there are still 4.8 servers running, like our servers BRUT(dot)me Sven Co-Op 4.8 CLASSIC that are not shown in the steam serrverlist of Sven Co-Op, in fact we are playing on our Sven CO-Op quite often for last weeks, as we started to like the last man standing map lmsbath, we will keep Sven coop alive, although on 4.8 version, anyway it is an older game, so most people moved to newer games or completely in their lives

This and Natural Selection 1 was one of the best mode out there back in its heyday

Sven Coop was huge before it hit steam. Steam was a double edge sword.

Where’s CHEESEMONSTER? He made a bot for this back in the day

Me and ny buddies used to play this back in the early 2000s.. it was an awesome "co-op single player experience" lol

the mod is older than you. that's why.

remilia's best server

man, i love this game, is sad that not much people play it now.

I am one of many ADMINS that host Sven coop, WON is dead but only because Steam now host SVEN COOP seperate from Half-Life. [CNC]-=MeCHNIZeR=-

we need fewer games so people can play the games that already exist

blame the devs and community fwafwafwafwa

i made some duke nukem 3d maps for sven co-op

Dead and forgotten? Sven was never that big tbh. 46 servers is pretty solid imo for Sven. I say this as a day one player.

Im still playing with my gf

Its because they added useless features and didnt fix bullet spone enemies and the new updates just made the game worse and limited the players.

What is the ending music?

it me on your video

what's the name of the song in the outro?

Still playin

wth? its not dead at all

I'm still playing it

the game isn't dead lol

I miss this game

Not enough new content

join the discord: discord.gg/aBQDKTBWnV

Sven coop was better during 3.0, I do not like the new weapons

holy

I play Sven coop

Are you on drugs? I still play sven co op regularly, it's still very popular. It's not dead in the slightest. "No one seems to play this anymore" What???

bad game 🙂

this game is not dead lmao