Team Fortress 2 Classified (formerly Team Fortress 2 Classic) has launched on Steam

Team Fortress 2 Classified (formerly Team Fortress 2 Classic) is a mod for Valve's Team Fortress 2 updated with refreshed visuals, new game modes and more.

It has now launched on Steam along with a Native Linux version and seems to be quite popular with FPS fans. It already has a Very Positive rating with thousands of people playing it. All thanks to Valve releasing the TF2 source code in the updated Source SDK early in 2025. It's not actually a new mod as it has been in development since 2014 but a lot more official now, and much easier to get into thanks to the Steam release.

What's included in Team Fortress 2 Classified:

NEW-OLD FEATURES

• Meet the Civilian, a brand-new special class based on the legacy Team Fortress character, and deliver him mostly-unharmed to the objective in VIP mode.
• Use TF2 pre-release inspired weapons like the Nail Gun, the Dynamite Pack, and the Tranquilizer Gun, all redesigned from the ground up to feel right at home with what's already there.
• Go on a rampage in Multi-Team maps, where GRN and YLW bring their unique (yet strangely identical) brand of violence to Arena, King of the Hill, and more.

NEW-NEW FEATURES

• Exclusive new gamemodes, including Domination and VIP Race — all playable on professional-quality official maps, with more yet to come.
• Jump pads, flak cannons, bricks, chains wrapped around your fists; made-in-house weapons that go beyond mere sidegrades, and dramatically change how you play the game.
• Extensive modding support, allowing players to customize the look of their game, and allowing servers to host advanced custom weapon packs and maps.
• A whole host of visual enhancements, including improved textures, models, mapping features, and restored toon-style shading that was mostly absent in the retail release.
• A chicken, or so we're led to believe.

With Valve now not doing a whole lot with Team Fortress 2, it will be interesting to see if mods like this ever fully take over. Still hard to beat the original TF2, with a 24 hour peak of 57,301 versus 5,989 for Team Fortress 2 Classified. And we're still waiting on that promised update to the original TF2.