The keen-eyed investigators at SteamDB have come up with a new list of games, posted on NeoGAF, that may (or may not) be on their way to Steam. Among them are a few titles you might recognize, some you may not, and one that allows me to finally say—I can't believe that this moment is finally here—Half-Life 3 confirmed! Except, of course, almost certainly not really. (But maybe.)
Even so, its presence is made more tantalizing by the fact that it comes just a couple of months after the discovery of a file named hl3.txt in the latest update to Dota 2. The file appeared to make Half-Life references, such as in the line "string m_HelpText = 'Combine Pulse Ceiling Turret'," but what it's actually for remains an unsolved mystery.
Even without Half-Life 3, the list contains one game I'd be very excited to get my hands on, that being Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, from Dear Esther studio The Chinese Room. The game arrived to almost universal praise on PS4 on August, so a PC port once whatever exclusivity Sony signed up for has expired seems like a no-brainer.
There's also Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD, Final Fantasy VI, Dangonronpa 1 and 2, Earth Defense Force 4.1, Guilty Gear Xrd Sign, and a pile of others. None of them are confirmed, obviously, but I'm hopeful; even just the promise of these former console exclusives finally making their way to the PC is heartening.
Half-Life 3, though, let's just say I wouldn't recommend holding your breath.