Aliens: Dark Descent

Level 10 (~40hr into the game) has a game-breaking soft-lock that prevents me from beating the game. Definitely not restarting the entire campaign. This has been a bug since launch in 2023. It is now 2025. Would have recommended the game if not for this. Do not buy.

This is now my second favorite Alien game after Alien: Isolation. I usually don't play tactical strategy games, but as a fan of this franchise I couldn't let this one slip. And man, was it worth it. I can't remember the last time I was this addicted to a game. The tension, the atmosphere in missions, the resource management, building up your marine squads, taking care of them in the ship, it all creates an experience that hooks you, held together by a well crafted story that nails the tone of James Cameron's movie (and a bit of Ridley's too). This one is a hit. Don't miss it.

It's genuinely fun to watch things go completely off the rails. Marines get dragged away, facehuggers leap from the shadows, pulse rifle fire punctuating panicked screams. If you're a fan of Alien, you'll be a fan of the cinematic squad wipes.

Short review to say this is an absolutely fantastic game. A must-play if you’re a fan of the Alien universe. Particularly the environment and atmosphere shares high resemblance to that of the first two Alien films. The story and writing are both strong, the direction during cut-scenes was surprisingly of high quality, and voice acting was solid enough. It features an extensive variety of Xeno’s to engage in battle, and has a lot of lore relevant niceties that you see in the films like weapons, dialogue throwbacks, audio and sound design, and so on. As a game it plays very, very well as a stealthy real-time tactics up a similar alley to the Shadow Tactics series. So even if you’re not particularly fond of the Alien universe or have no interest in it, there’s still enjoyment in there as a game as it shares the same trait of being able to reach your goal in how you see fit through an open-world map design in a trial and error style. Where it differs is that you control your mari...

this is a hidden gem, I know nothing about Cameron's Aliens but the story is great, the atmosphere the gameplay is astonishing

It sucks u have to play it to get my review but the forced slow prologue sucks and the forced story stealth missions are the worst, i wish it started with my marines and ended with them,

Really, really enjoyed this game! It's like a dungeon crawler XCOM, and the ability to do multiple runs on each map is really fun and unique for something in this genre. Definitely room for improvement: the Tools resource is far too rare on later levels, the difficulty in controlling individual marines vs the whole squad makes it difficult to manage missions in the late-game, and the "story" missions are more tedious than fun. The inability to pause the game to look at the map is another issue I found majorly frustrating. All that said, I'm really hoping for a sequel with more Stuff that builds on the awesome framewrk Tindalos put together here!

This game is so fun to play and honors the aliens fanchize very well. Only negative thing is the awkward loading times when returning back to the ship and mission. 8.5/10

Fun game to me, worth the price! Might be a bias opinion because I love the franchise. Reminds me of Xcom, though it's not turn-based. Love to see all the recognisable vehicles in the maps and the marine customization is quite nice. I'd say, give this game a chance if you're intrigued.

Overall I loved it. Stays true to the Alien atmosphere. It was very challenging even on medium and a few bugs here and there make it hard to tell if the game is actually working like it should.