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Alien Grounds

A score-driven arcade FPS built for short, high-intensity runs. Every mission escalates. Mastery beats brute force.

9 April 2026

Alien Grounds is a shooter developed by emagnetic, released 9 April 2026 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Alien Grounds is

Alien Grounds is a shooter game developed by emagnetic and released in 2026. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 5.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In the 22nd century, human civilization was nearly wiped out by an AI once designed to help us. At first useful, it soon began disconnecting people from reality itself. When a group of vigilantes attempted to shut it down, the AI escaped into the Universal Instance - the hidden framework of existence, where the constants and functions of our universe are defined. The robots you face are early military prototypes, created with the AI’s assistance while it was still under human control. Now, they appear as overflow anomalies - echo of the AI’s routine cycles leaking into our dimension. The so-called Alien Grounds are substitute-reality zones created by the Galactic League of Biological Forms…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Alien Grounds launched on 9 April 2026, within three weeks of Crimson Desert Enhanced, Pragmata, Replaced and Saros.

Released around the same time: Crimson Desert Enhanced, Pragmata, Replaced, Saros.

Official trailer

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When did Alien Grounds come out?
Alien Grounds was released on 9 April 2026 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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