Aliens: Dark Descent
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…
Aliens: Dark Descent is an adventure developed by Tindalos Interactive, released 20 June 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It currently starts at $11.99 at Humble Store.
What Aliens: Dark Descent is
Aliens: Dark Descent is an adventure game developed by Tindalos Interactive and released in 2023. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 45 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Alien series
Aliens: Dark Descent is the 72nd of 76 entries we hold in the Alien series. The next entry was Dead by Daylight: Alien Chapter Pack in 2023. Its critic score of 84 is 14 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Alien: Rogue Incursion at 90.
How it was received
Aliens: Dark Descent holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD FX-6300 / Intel Core i3-6100, 8 GB RAM and 3 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon R9 380 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 60GB. 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 costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $11.99 at Humble Store, 70% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Aliens: Dark Descent launched on 20 June 2023, within three weeks of Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI, System Shock and Dave the Diver. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI, System Shock, Dave the Diver.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Aliens: Dark Descent yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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