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Destroy All Humans!

A remake of Destroy All Humans!, an action-adventure video game that stands as the inaugural entry in the Destroy All Humans! franchise. It unfolds in 1959 in the United States. The game satirises the…

67 28 July 2020

Destroy All Humans! is an adventure developed by Black Forest Games, released 28 July 2020 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch.

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What Destroy All Humans! is

Destroy All Humans! is an adventure game developed by Black Forest Games and released in 2020. It was published by THQ Nordic. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Humankind is under attack by an alien lifeform that is secretly trying to undermine US democracy, bring down its government and harvest the DNA of its citizens. And that alien… is you. In 1959, Cryptosporidium-137 arrived on Earth searching for his predecessor clone, Cryptosporidium-136. Crypto-136 disappeared after Orthopox-13 sent him to Earth to prepare for the large-scale extraction of human DNA. Pox sends Crypto on a mission to harvest human brain stems (which contain alien DNA due to an encounter between Furon warriors and humans in ancient times) to prevent the Furons from going extinct. Furon genitalia have withered away generations ago due to prolonged exposure to their nuclear…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Destroy All Humans! holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 6 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 68, across 75 votes.

What it launched against

Destroy All Humans! launched on 28 July 2020, within three weeks of Ghost of Tsushima, Factorio, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout and Risk of Rain 2. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Ghost of Tsushima, Factorio, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, Risk of Rain 2.

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When did Destroy All Humans! come out?
Destroy All Humans! was released on 28 July 2020 for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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