Alien Swarm
Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community. Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt…
Alien Swarm is a shooter developed by Valve, released 10 July 2010 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It is free to play. This page lists 6 cheat codes for it.
What Alien Swarm is
Alien Swarm is a shooter game developed by Valve and released in 2010. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Source.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Alien Swarm is a multiplayer top-down shooter video game developed by Valve. It is a remake of a mod for Unreal Tournament 2004, and it was developed by the original team, who were hired by Valve during the course of the development process.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 66 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Alien Swarm holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 65, across 67 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3.9 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4 3.0GHz, 1 GB for XP / 2GB for Vista of RAM and DirectX 9 compatible video card with 128 MB, Shader model 2.0. ATI X800, NVidia 6600 or better. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Alien Swarm launched on 10 July 2010, within three weeks of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo and Singularity. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo, Singularity.
Cheats and codes
We have tested and published 6 cheat entries for Alien Swarm — 6 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Every code labelled
Alien Swarm cheat codes
Play on your own
Lets a campaign mission start without a second player.
Open the console and type the command before starting a mission.
Enable cheats first
Required before any other cheat command. Works only on a server you host yourself.
Enable the console in Options, then Keyboard, then Advanced, and press the key to the left of 1.
None of this works on a public server, and trying it there gets you kicked or banned. Start your own listen server or a local game first.
God mode
You take no damage on your own server.
Requires sv_cheats 1 first.
None of this works on a public server, and trying it there gets you kicked or banned. Start your own listen server or a local game first.
Survive anything at 1 health
You still take damage but your health never reaches zero, so fights still play out.
Requires sv_cheats 1 first.
None of this works on a public server, and trying it there gets you kicked or banned. Start your own listen server or a local game first.
Dlc
Quick answers
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