
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
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Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Availability
We put this game to every storefront we collect. A market that answered not sold has told us something about the game; a market we never asked has not, and the two are never drawn the same.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 4.86/day in the week to Sep 3 → 9.71/day in the week after.
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Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $39.99 | 18.9Kreviews | 88% | — | $17.6M |
| $13.99−65% | 9.1Kratings | 73% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
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Reviews
Themes across 1069 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Very early on there is a very hard sneaking sequence where if you die, you have to watch two cutscenes again. Only one of them is skippable. How did they not anticipate that a player might fail this sequence and perhaps not want to watch the same cutscene over and over again? If you won't let me save the game when I want to, at least make sure the autosaves are at reasonable locations. Thanks.
Terrible story aside, the core gameplay of this RTS is actually pretty solid. Even thought the game has its flaws, like a save-scumming exploit for infinite ammo, totally brain-dead human enemy AI, and so on.
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14 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.
14 on sale1 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask
The 1 “not sold” market is read from the Steam price pass of Aug 22: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price there. The 14 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 695.8/day in the week to Jul 16 → 7.43/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Japanese*languages with full audio support
| $11.99−70% |
| 3.5Kratings |
| 80% |
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| not modelled |
| $39.99 | — | 93% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 1.1K reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Думал, будет просто XCOM во вселенной Alien, а получил одну из самых напряженных тактических игр за долгое время. Начало, почти чистый хоррор: медленно ползешь по карте, боишься каждого шороха и лишний раз не хочешь шуметь. Позже морпехи становятся сильнее, начинаешь чувствовать себя машиной смерти и нестись вперед, но игра быстро ставит на место - одна ошибка, и конец. Самое крутое — Aliens: Dark Descent постоянно меняет ощущения от геймплея и вообще не успевает надоесть. Страх сменяется уверенностью, уверенность — напряжением и необходимостью снова играть аккуратно, но уже более вдумчиво. Очень грамотно выдержан баланс. Даже не будучи фанатом Alien, получил огромное удовольствие. Любителям XCOM точно рекомендую попробовать. Несмотря на реалтайм, игра ощущается свежо и по-своему уникально. Не “игра всей жизни”, но точно одна из тех, которые хочется помнить. В какой-то момент сел ночью “на пару миссий” и очнулся уже вечером следующего дня. Наверное, это лучшая рекомендация, которую можно дать игре.
xcom ile alakası yok ! sadece arayüz ve base alanları benziyor. Aşırı sıkıcı ve mekanikleri az olduğu için oyunda zorluğu aşırı abartmışlar. Oyunda bi şey de yok. Çok boş. Oyunda Küçük Alien > Orta Alien > Büyük Alien var sadece :D ... ve bunlar arcade oyunlarda gördüğünüz gibi dibinize sokulup sizi dürterek karakterlerin enerjisini götürüyor. sizin birliklerde hıyar gibi durup düz ateş ediyorlar. Alien oyunlarının fanı bile olsanız uzak durun gerçekten boş.
Душно, тесно, местами перебор с врагами, но весьма не плохая и дает свою атмосферу
Nah... This is not at all what people are hyping it up to be (and for the record I love games like this). But this seems cheaply made by a movie studio trying to do a quick cash grab, and by the amount of positive response this game got, they obviously completed their mission. The dialogue is horrible in both the cutscenes and during gameplay (every time you make the characters run instead of walk the guy yells out "Lets get moving slugs!" Each mission is just move around and find people and then get ready to walk away as you shoot when an alien comes, its very repetitive and lacks any character at all. I can't see anyone who isn't a DIEHARD "Aliens" movie fan liking this game, and even then its just for the nostalgia of the movie series. Its just seems lifeless and very basic/mundane. I hate I paid for this game and will try to get a refund. Don't take my word for it, its free on GamePass try before you buy, don't make the mistake I did by trusting a bunch of balding guys in their 50's still riding the high of the 1986 who actually think this is a great game.
I love the Alien franchise but I can't recommend this game sadly. I think they nailed the vibe and missions feel tense and spooky but I feel like the game just isn't well balanced and the story is turning out to be uncompelling. I get sick of the strong female lead trope being rehashed in every piece of Alien content that gets published. Hayes is always right and she's better at commanding a military ship and crew then Sergeant Harper just because okay. If your soldiers get injured, they are injured for a week, yet the game only gives you days to complete missions otherwise the Alien threat level goes up. It's become a chore to get through, so I won't be finishing the game. There are too many games still in my backlog to force myself to finish this.
This is a great game! It's so thematic, perfectly capturing the tense combat from Aliens. I saw Aliens when i was too young and I had nightmares for a year. It was so therapeutic to get my revenge on them in this game.
Pretty misleading game. It's a creep and peep game, you are so insanely handicapped by multiple mechanics you feel like your are not controlling marines but a bunch of idiots with peashooters. One basic alien can get close to 4 marines. The stress mechanic is the most irritating, pointless, game breaking idea. Under attack? Oh here, there's a massive amount of negative attributes. And also heres making the alien attacks scale, to the point it's like 'you have zero chance'. It literally says this. Then there's ammo. Parts and medical, are stacked in your base as you collect them. Ammo? No, gets completely wasted when you return, so you have to decide in the field if you want to pick it up or not. Got the guts of a good game, but lots of stupid decisions make this a real chore. Didn't play marines to be constantly skulking around!
The game isn't completely terrible, but... You will be doing the same stuff for hours. By the last quarter of the game, I was desperately hoping every mission would finally be the last. You also can't skip mid-mission dialogue or cutscenes, which gets frustrating fast. On top of that, the game is very buggy, there is no way to play without running into multiple issues. Finally, the difficulty on "Hard" is weirdly balanced. It feels way too easy overall, yet relies on cheap, unfair mechanics where you either already know what's coming or get punished instantly. That's just bad game design in my opinion. If you are a big fan of the franchise, you might still enjoy it though.
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