
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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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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| 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 | |
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Incredible game, really nails the atmosphere of the Alien series. Sound design, level design all perfect and I enjoy spending several sessions in each map going deeper and deeper into the story. Typically I'm not fond of the Xcom squad command gameplay but having it play in realtime with a slowmo effect for decision making brings it all together and really ups the pacing when ♥♥♥♥ hits the fan. There are only two negative points for me in this game, the ending is pretty meh and there was no DLC released post launch. However I would absolutely 100% recommend it.
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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 · Poland over the last 30 days: the 21 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 12 places towards #1, and the 2,501 moves with no price cut behind them went 1 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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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Japanese*languages with full audio support
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| $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.
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Easily the best Aliens game with emphasis on Colonial Marines action. An original story that contributes to the Aliens canon rather than breaking it. Extremely addictive game loop of running between rooms a la Scooby Doo cartoon, setting up traps, defensive points and making things go boom. There are a few rare bugs, but don't worry if it's not the type of a bug hunt you expect - nothing a quick reload can't fix and auto saves are very frequent. Unfortunately, as the devs lost the license shortly after, I doubt the game will ever receive a DLC. No sequel would make sense as the story is very much self-contained. As such, this game will remain a lightning in a bottle. I am hopeful the team produces something similar in the future, perhaps a Starship Troopers game, that could very well be possible with a few alterations to the game mechanics.
I rarely write reviews, but I really enjoyed this game and have even revisited it after beating it, simply because I enjoyed the gameplay and thought I would enjoy the challenge of a harder difficulty. If you don't read the rest, I highly recommend this game, it's fun and has unique gameplay that differs it from a lot of other games. The thing you like about the Alien franchise is that it's a blend of action and sneaking or running around trying not to get killed by the monsters. The developers seem to understand this and found a way to give that experience in the package of real time tactics where you manage a squad of marines. Just the right amount of customizations and decisions you have to make on the ship, not too many where it feels like a chore, but just enough coupled with limited resources, you get to make some fun choices. If you like squad based tactics games you'll like this. It's different enough that it doesn't feel like a copy of xcom, a copy of xcom wouldn't be bad, but others have made games like that and they are fun, but sometimes you want different. Me personally I like to mix up the types of games I play, so if I just played a tactics game, I'm not jumping straight into another that has almost identical gameplay. Again this game is unique, at least in my game library. People keeping saying it's like Xcom and Darkest Dungeon, which I understand. Darkest dungeon has a home base like the otago and you go on runs in dungeons which are similar to going on missions in this game, except the combat in this game is closer to xcom, but in reality there is already another alien game to compare it to. I think this game is like Alien Isolation and xcom combined with more real time tactics as opposed to turn based. Alien Isolation is like a horror survival game and xcom is tactical strategy gameplay, which I think that blend more specifically describes the game. I would not be surprised if the developers all played Alien Isolation as well.
Sweaty tactical horror game. Well designed. Scary. At first, I liked that the marines use voice lines from Aliens 2. Then I was annoyed, because that's oddly lazy. Then I circled back to being stoked about it. The marines sound like Aliens 2 marines because those are peak marine, you can't get more true-to-form for Colonial Marines than those lines. This game uses the IP well, and the gameplay matches the lore well. You always feel outnumbered and in danger. Good game. Great deal on sale.
It's like a simplified version of XCOM or Fallout Tactics. I expected more granular control over the squad, but you can't control individual marines, which makes things like sneaking rather clumsy. That becomes a problem later, where some maps require rather strict timing when moving from cover to cover, in order not to alert all the xenomorphs in the area. The story is okay(ish), voice actors sound like they care, even if there is a bit of nonsense in the later game. Some of the character designs look like lifted from Quake 4 stroggs, which is rather meh. There is also a bit of a stylistic clash between the base maintenance part, where characters look stylised, and actual maps, which look more gritty and cinematic. Gameplay is solid though, all the mechanics work pretty well. There is always some sense of urgency as enemies are respawning indefinitely, while you have to manage finite resources like ammo, healthpacks, or stress. Xenomorphs are fast and deadly, but you can choose between a tactical slo-mo and pause when you open your skills menu. Slo-mo is better IMO, as it forces you to think on your feet and adds to the overall tension. All in all, the game is trying to capture the atmosphere of the Aliens movie, and I'd say it's pretty decent at that - even though it feels like a budget title in other aspects.
One of the best Alien atmospheres in twenty years. Bodies are consumables here. One contact and your marine goes home with a prosthetic. The bar that actually matters is composure, and it drains from noise, from darkness, from watching someone vanish off the tracker. Stress is the ammunition you cannot resupply. Missions are long, and they stay where you left them. Weld a door, pull back, return tomorrow to a map that remembers what you did to it. Suppressive fire, scouting, overwatch, and specialisations that genuinely interlock: the sergeant, the gunner, the medic and the recon each change what the other three can afford to risk. Between drops the Otago is a real strategy layer, with the story running through it rather than bolted onto it. One flaw, and it's the ending. It stops instead of closing, and it plainly sets up something that never arrived: three years on, no DLC, no sequel, the studio elsewhere. Everything before that last half hour is among the best work this licence has produced. Played it on hard. If the itch ever returns there's a harder setting waiting, and not many games earn a second appointment.
รีวิวแบบโคตรรีบ : ซื้อมา 2 ร้อยกว่าบาทตอนลด แม่งคุ้มซะยิ่งกว่าคุ้ม รีวิวแบบไม่รีบ : เนื้อเรื่อง - 7 ยังไม่จบแต่ใกล้จบมากๆละคิดว่านะ คัดซีนก็ทำออกมาโอเคเลย ยิ่งช่วงแรกๆผมมีหลอนอ่ะโคตรดี แต่เสียงพากย์ของนางเอกคือจืดมาก ฉากอารมณ์แม่งเหมือนอ่านบท เพราะงั้นจริงๆผมอยากให้สัก 6.5 แต่ผมอยากให้คุณลองเล่นจริงๆนะซึ้งเหตผลนั้นก็เพราะ.. เกมเพล - 8.5 โคตรตึง ตอนที่ผมเริ่มเล่นเป็นแล้ว มันทำผมเป็นไมเกรนเลย เกมเน้นซ้อนแอบมากกว่าที่คิด ช่วงแรกๆผมพยายามยิงแม่งให้หมด แต่มันไม่ได้เล่นอย่างงั้น ถ้าคุณสู้เยอะ ตัวระครคุณจะเครียด ต่อให้ไปกดพักรัวๆ ก็กระสุนหมดอยู่ดี ต่อให้กระสุนไม่หมดการอยู่ในแมพนานๆโดยไม่กลับไปฐาณหลัก Alien ก็จะโหดแล้วตึงขึ้นเรื่อยๆ ช่วงแรกๆผมเกลียดระบบความเครียดมาก แต่ตอนนี้ผมโคตรชอบ ผมแทบจะเครียดแทนพวกแม่งอยู่แล้ว "ความกดดันนี้แม่งอร่อยชิบหาE" เกมไม่สามารถเซฟได้ทุกที(สงสัยกดดันไม่พอ) คุณต้องทำให้ห้องห้องนึงปิดตายจากทุกด้านเพื่อที่ทหารของคุณจะได้พักมันจะลดความเครียดได้เยอะพร้อมลุยกันต่อ ถ้าให้ผมแนะนำสกิว C (ไอที่มันตั้งเซ็นเซอร์ตรวจจับอ่ะ) กดบ่อยๆครับ นอกจากจะเอาไว้ตั้งเช็กว่ามีอะไรขยับในแผนที ในช่วงฉุกเฉิกรีบกลางแผนทีขึ้นมาครับแล้วกดให้มันระเบิดตัวเองทิ้งเลย เพราะก่อนมันพัง มันจะสงสัยโคตรดังให้ Alien หลายตัวไปตรงนั้นแทนที่จะมาหาเรา(จากนั้นก็สวดมนต์ขอให้ไม่มีตัวไหนบังเอิญวิ่งมาเจอเรานะครับ) อีกอย่างผมไม่เคยดูหนัง Alien รู้จักแหละ เนื้อเรื่องก็รู้คร่าวๆ เพราะงั้นเนื้อเรื่องมันอาจจะ 10/10 ก็ได้แต่ผมไม่อินไง ถึงงั้นก็เป็นหนึ่งเกมที่ผมแนะนำครับ โคตรดี! โคตรมัน! โคตรคุ้ม!!(เพราะซื้อตอนลด55+)
Игра кал говна. Если все же решитесь поиграть в это, не мучайте себя, ставьте сразу легкую сложность. Даже на среднем уровне сложности игра просто забрасывает ордами чужих, если поднята тревога. В этом случае можно сразу перезагружаться, так как патроны рано или поздно (обычно рано) заканчиваются. Игра просто спавнит врагов из воздуха. В противном случае приходится просто шкериться по углам и отстреливать чужих из снайперки с глушителем, постоянно перезагружаясь в случае фейла. Великолепный игровой опыт. Тактическая составляющая вообще не раскрыта. Вроде берешь различные перки героям, но толку от них не то, чтобы много. Что касается сюжета - обычная для серии история про злую корпорацию Вейланд-ютани и главного героя, который пытается ей помешать. Но плюс ко всему сюжет приправлен дебильной историей про морпеха и его дочь, которые могут вступать в телепатическую связь с чужими без всяких объяснений. Че это вообще такое? В общем, если не жалко своих нервов, возьмите по скидке, а лично мне потраченного времени жаль.
Aliens: Dark Descent es una de las mejores adaptaciones de la franquicia y una auténtica obra maestra de la estrategia táctica en tiempo real. El juego logra capturar a la perfección la atmósfera opresiva, el pánico y la tensión constante de las películas originales.Lo mejor del juegoTensión real: El radar "bip" genera un terror psicológico brillante.Estrategia pura: Controlas a todo el escuadrón de forma fluida y orgánica.Mecánica de estrés: Los marines sufren traumas reales bajo presión constante.Muerte permanente: Cada baja duele y te obliga a planificar con cuidado.Diseño de niveles: Mapas semiabiertos, laberínticos y llenos de atajos estratégicos.Pausa táctica: Permite ralentizar o congelar la acción para dar órdenes críticas.Es un título imprescindible para los amantes de la estrategia táctica y una carta de amor para los fanáticos del universo cinematográfico de Alien.
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