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Aliens: Dark Descent
Released On: Jun 20, 2023
75
8.1
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 68 Critic Reviews
75
62% Positive
42 Reviews
42 Reviews
32% Mixed
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3% Negative
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2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 68 Critic Reviews
75
62% Positive
42 Reviews
42 Reviews
32% Mixed
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
3% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Aliens: Dark Descent is a heart-pounding game that stays true to the franchise's roots, bringing action-packed sequences paired with horrifying atmosphere where dangers lurk around every moment. From the terrifying enemy AI to the Unique Quirks that define every soldier at your disposal, Aliens: Dark Descent is the perfect recipe for those who seek a definitive Aliens experience.
Aliens: Dark Descent is an excellent real-time tactics game mixed with survival horror and arguably the best Aliens game around. Excellent tactical action in a world ever-succumbing to the Xenomorph threat, you will find resources scarce, leading to difficult decisions, ones made all the more difficult when time is also a factor. Add on an engaging enough story and an excellent atmosphere, and you have a game that I can't help but recommend to anybody and everybody.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 115 User Ratings
8.1
72% Positive
83 Ratings
83 Ratings
19% Mixed
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
9% Negative
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 115 User Ratings
8.1
72% Positive
83 Ratings
83 Ratings
19% Mixed
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
9% Negative
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
One of the best games I've ever played. Yes, there are bugs (even long after release), yes, the game has limited enemy units, yes, the story is kind of predictable, yes, the intro **** and the ending isn't great.
But the game uses its license effectively. It's absolutely fantastic and its the best Aliens game ever made. Alien isolation was a great Alien 1 game, AVP Colonial Marine campaigns always had priority split between the other campaigns and were sometimes too derivative anyway (AVP 2 human campaign is literally a half-life clone) and the arcade games, despite being good, were not what I wanted out of an Aliens title. Colonial Marines was a disappointment, even with a patch and mobs. This game is fantastic, it's strategic, it's tense, it's fun. Go buy it. First game since I was a kid that I've beaten 3 times and the first game on PC I've ever 100% finished with all achievements (with a library of over 2000 games on Steam). Give it a shot.
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Best game since Alien Isolation. i have so many hours in it already, and I hope there will be many more games just like this
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Aliens: Dark Descent marries its inspirations with reverence for its source material to create arguably the best Aliens game of all time.
With Aliens: Dark Descent Tindalos Interactive merges one of the coolest sci-fi-horror licenses of the last decades with a cleverly designed realtime tactics foundation. Combined with permadeath mechanics, challenging enemies and a persistent world that allows you to retreat if things get too dangerous, players will experience high levels of tension. Despite a remaining technical problems, deficits in the number of alien types you encounter and a sometimes too predictable plot, Dark Descent still snatches our insider’s tipp award for June 2023.
If all of its technical issues can be fixed, Aliens: Dark Descent will prove to be something special. It treats the franchise with respect and care — and when working properly — it nails the tension the series is famous for. Unfortunately, a full, completed release simply should not have this many technical issues, nor cause so much frustration that has nothing to do with the aliens themselves.
If not for the technical issues, this would be easily one of the best Aliens games ever. And it still probably is. Borrowing from some of the greatest squad-based tactics games and adding its own twists, I don't think I've played anything that really gets what was so cool about Aliens, the film, since Monolith's Aliens Versus Predator 2 way back in 2001. And many have tried! It's the sort of game that makes me wish I could look the other way and praise it even higher, but on balance, I just can't. With a few weeks in the med bay for a bit of extra technical polish, it could shine up nicely into something amazing. As-is, it's still an intriguing, inspired, imaginative survival RTS that I can enthusiastically recommend, but only with some caveats.
Dark Descent is a generic XCOM clone with brief moments of engaging puzzle-piecing strategy. The horror is underused and feels wholly out of place as it pushes you further and further into action. Music is adrenaline-pumping and clearly designed to compliment firefights, troops yell ‘LET’S GO TEAM’ every time you move, and xenomorphs are easier to mow down than avoid. Nothing about Dark Descent wants you to be scared, but everything about Aliens does. Mix in the cocktail of performance issues and thin mechanics, and what you have is another disappointing entry in the catalogue of Alien games.
Excellent game which is brutally hard. Felt like I was in the aliens franchise. The work the Devs put in to create the aliens universe was fantastic. Play the game with surround sound system. The sounds and effects/music is mind-blowing
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Nem volt rossz játék, a történet rendben van, grafika megállja a helyét egy felülnézetes játékhoz képest, bár tény, hogy nem vitték túlzásba a textúrák minőségét és azok változatosságát. Ami kicsit unalmassá teszi a játékot, az egy-két pálya ismétlődése és hogy a Boss harcok kimerülnek a királynők legyilkolásában. Emellett elég nehéz a játékmenet, ami idő után megint elveszi a játék élvezhetőségét. Remélem ha lesz folytatás, lesz történet nehézség is amit lehet választani... :D
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Aliens: Dark Descent offers a unique and thrilling experience with its blend of survival horror, RTS, and resource management. While successfully capturing the essence of the Aliens franchise, technical issues and game-breaking bugs hinder the game's potential. The gripping atmosphere, strategic gameplay, and compelling storyline make it a noteworthy addition for fans, despite its imperfections.
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The story is really cringe. The forceful "strong independent woman" is really cringe, and it's simply badly written. So many situations where it's way too forced, either this being, she running away from xenomorphs, all men being whimps, she shows no fear whatsoever, it's just so hard making a point that it's just a joke all and all. Gameplay and UI is good, story is utter trash.
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Technical problems - mouse lag in vsync mode - didn't see this one for years. Even turning on tripple buffering in nvidia drivers didn't solve the problem. Overall game felt clanky at times with frame skipping or something. I run it on RTX3070, Ryzen 7 58003D with 32GB ram, so hardware was not the problem, and as an IT guy i know what im doing with it. Regarding presentation, voice acting is _really_ bad, at times actors read their lines like in children cartoon or puppet show, breaking immersion. I don't know who wrote script for this game, but that person clearly hates men, portraying all of them as incompetent bullies towards strong, competent, diverse female lead. It was enough for me to refund the game pretty quickly.
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Summary In Aliens: Dark Descent, command a squad of hardened Colonial Marines to stop a terrifying Xenomorph outbreak on Moon Lethe. Lead your soldiers in real-time combat against iconic Xenomorphs, rogue operatives from the insatiable Weyland-Yutani Corporation, and a host of horrifying creatures new to the Alien franchise. Infiltrate large ope...
Platforms:
- PlayStation 5
- PC
- Xbox Series X
- PlayStation 4
- Xbox One
Initial Release Date: Jun 20, 2023
Developer:
- Tindalos Interactive
Publisher: Focus Entertainment
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