Team Fortress 2 — The Orange Box gift

Team Fortress 2 (The Orange Box) — a Steam gift for your account

Team Fortress 2 is Valve's legendary class-based shooter, where nine very different mercenaries fight over control points, payload carts and intel briefcases. TF2 itself is free on Steam these days, but this listing isn't the free base game — it's the full The Orange Box gift: Valve's classic 2007 compilation that drops several iconic games into your library and upgrades your TF2 account to premium status.

What's actually inside The Orange Box

The Orange Box launched on October 10, 2007 and is still considered one of the greatest compilations in PC gaming. It bundles five standalone games (plus a couple of bonus modes):

• Team Fortress 2 — class-based multiplayer with nine classes: Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy, Engineer, Medic, Sniper and Spy.
• Portal — the portal-gun puzzle game with GLaDOS, the cake, and the Still Alive credits song people still quote.
• Half-Life 2 — the landmark shooter starring Gordon Freeman, City 17 and the gravity gun.
• Half-Life 2: Episode One and Episode Two — two story episodes that continue right after HL2's ending.
• Plus Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and Half-Life 2: Lost Coast — the multiplayer mode and the HDR tech demo.

So a single gift adds five Valve classics to your Steam library at once. For fans of story-driven shooters and puzzles it's about as dense an "everything in one box" deal as it gets.

Why buy TF2 if it's free

Fair question. Free TF2 gives you a free account with limits: fewer backpack slots and restrictions on trading and item drops. Any purchase that includes TF2 — and The Orange Box is one — flips your account to premium status (Proof of Purchase): more backpack slots, full trading and no free-account restrictions. On top of that you get all of Half-Life 2 and Portal, which is reason enough on its own.

How the Steam gift delivery works

We deliver this as a Steam Gift through the supplier's bot. We need two things from you: your Steam profile friend-invite link and the region (country) of your account. After that it's automatic:

• The bot adds itself as your friend — you don't need to accept anything.
• It sends The Orange Box gift to your account.
• Once delivered, the bot removes itself from your friends list.

Steam Guard is not required — the gift arrives without it. The game does not need to already be on your account, and no prior activity is needed. Delivery usually takes a couple of minutes after checkout, though we don't make hard timing promises — it's a live service.

About region — the key condition

The main rule for accepting any Steam gift: your Steam account region must match the gift region. If they don't match, Steam simply won't let you accept it, so enter your real account country at checkout. One more thing: The Orange Box (or TF2) must not already be in your library — Steam won't accept a gift for a game you already own. That's the number-one reason gifts fail, so check your library beforehand.

Where to play

Every Orange Box game runs on Windows, plays great on modern PCs, and works fine on Steam Deck and Linux via Proton. Mouse and keyboard recommended; TF2 and HL2 network modes need internet, while the Half-Life 2 and Portal single-player campaigns play offline.

If you're here for TF2 and online battles

Then our other Valve multiplayer listings are worth a look. Check out Counter-Strike 2 for competitive shooting, Portal for puzzles from the same studio, and story lovers should head straight to Half-Life 2. They all live in the same Steam ecosystem as your gift.

Quick answers

The gift is permanent — a full copy you own, not a rental or subscription. You don't need a VPN to bypass region locking: your account region just has to match the gift region. And the TF2 premium status stays on your account even after you've played the rest of the bundle.