HLA-NoVR VS DepotDownloader

Aside from the obvious meaning of your comment - there is a mod which makes Alyx playable without VR: https://github.com/bfeber/HLA-NoVR

There is a non-VR version! You can find it here: https://github.com/bfeber/HLA-NoVR It's a bit rough at least for now and the game was made for VR but it's better than nothing.

if you want to map and test without VR your best bet is to use this for jump properly: https://github.com/bfeber/HLA-NoVR

Here's the mod.

Github:https://github.com/bfeber/HLA-NoVR

Okay, I tell this to everyone, a first gen quest is about 100 dollars used on eBay, a link cable (3rd party) is about 20-50 dollars depending on quality. Much better experience than a novr version. My old pc had an rx570 which is below min spec and it ran perfectly fine. If you can’t afford the first gen quest (which I mean 100-200 dollars on a game is a bit much) then watch a play through on YouTube. This will be a better experience than a novr version. Unless your idea of fun in a game is looking through drawers and on shelfs just to find ammo. Which I don’t think needs to be stated, but it doesn’t work in a nonvr setting. As for where to find to novr mod https://github.com/bfeber/HLA-NoVR

There's also DepotDownloader that lets you download anything, including past version, from Steam https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader

I use this to download historical versions of a game to help with reverse engineering to archive dialogue trees from a game https://dialogue.destiny.report

I'm not sure how you could just download the launcher. You want the Launcher.exe from this version. A quick google brought up this downloader: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader

Steam Depot Downloader (requires DotNet)

Continuing to add to the confusion on the topic by trying to argue that Steam is DRM because you have to buy the game through Steam is counter-productive. (And apparently Steam's client isn't the only browser available.)

Not by Steam means. I don't know if it's still functional (update on last year) but https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader is what you're looking for and you need to learn the DLCs depot number from SteamDB to feed that information into this program.

use this https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader

If you are looking for a specific version of the game and you own it on steam you could download it using something like DepotDownloader. An example of this would be downloading the first pubic version of the game

You can still rollback with the help of the DepotDownloader: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader