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Aliens: Dark Descent (PC Digital Download)

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Green Man Gaming has Aliens: Dark Descent (PC digital download) on sale for $32.79.

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    • 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.

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Green Man Gaming has Aliens: Dark Descent (PC digital download) on sale for $32.79.

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    • 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.

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Jun 24, 2023 04:51 PM
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Quote from Ailan :
Very good game, got 30+ hours out of it. XCOM with real time combat. Skill menu slows time. Kinda want to restart on nightmare. It is buggy but already gotten some patches to fix stuff. If you like Aliens and XCOM style management it's a slam dunk. played entirely on steam deck, use protonge 8.4. performance is decent on the deck. I think it's worth it at this price definitely with the caveat that I'm a huge aliens fan and I like XCOM style management with isometric tactical real time combat. also get past the prologue because that's the weakest part of the game. really hopeful this game gets some love because it's surprisingly good. it's doing some really cool things that XCOM didn't do. maybe not as much replayability but neither is XCOM without mods.

Thanks for the review. I played for a few hours last night and I am enjoying it so far. It's an odd mix between an X-Com type game and an RTS, but it ends up working really well. And I actually didn't mind the prologue, but I can see how once you do it the first time, you would want to skip it on different playthroughs.
Jun 26, 2023 03:38 PM
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CyrusDaVirusJun 26, 2023 03:38 PM
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I am currently half through this game and honestly it is an amazing game. Needs more content down the road but the mechanics are amazing. Fast paced, anxiety inducing maps, and the story is kinda great. Avoid the facehuggers at all cost.
Jun 26, 2023 03:39 PM
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CyrusDaVirusJun 26, 2023 03:39 PM
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also if you have humble choice it will come down to 31.99 or something.
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Jun 26, 2023 04:54 PM
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detailJun 26, 2023 04:54 PM
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Quote from turtlemaster :
Wake me up when alien fireteam elite 2 comes out.
For a four player co-op, I found DRG to be much better. I played about 90 minutes and refunded it. I only found one match, the rest was with bots and so I wasn't really impressed with what I experienced.
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h4mx0rJun 26, 2023 07:35 PM
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This game is hella good. My favorite part of Aliens are the Colonial Marines, so I've been eating good recently Smilie

It should be getting a performance patch this week with some technical fixes it needs badly, but otherwise it is a very solid attempt at a strategy game for the Aliens franchise.

Isolation and Fireteam were very good but this solidly lands the hit for people in the venn diagram of "Strategy Gamers" and "Colonial Marines fans"

I hope this game does really well to warrant future content or a sequel. I'm sure Fireteam Elite did pretty good so I hope to see a sequel there too as well.

I would describe this game as XCOM (squad management) + Darkest Dungeon (push your luck/stress mechanics) + Nemesis (the injury mechanics). For turn-based gamers, there is an option in the settings to change Slow-Mo to Pause so you can make decisions at your leisure by hitting space bar.
Last edited by h4mx0r June 26, 2023 at 01:39 PM.
Jun 26, 2023 10:13 PM
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motaku96Jun 26, 2023 10:13 PM
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This game is remarkably good.
Jun 27, 2023 04:01 AM
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CyrusDaVirusJun 27, 2023 04:01 AM
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Quote from STICKYBUMPS :
I got excited until I saw it was the X-Com style. What a bummer.
This game is not X-Com style. It is not turn based.
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turtlemasterJun 27, 2023 05:54 AM
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Quote from detail :
For a four player co-op, I found DRG to be much better. I played about 90 minutes and refunded it. I only found one match, the rest was with bots and so I wasn't really impressed with what I experienced.
I've enjoyed Fireteam a lot (over 500 hours), despite of what appears to be a generic 3rd person shooter Fireteam surprisingly has quite a lot of build depth/variety. Every class has a 4x8 power grid of sorts that you can fill in with whatever perks you like and the end result is a incredibly diverse build system that makes the game stand out from the rest (I'd say the build system is richer than DRG), the game is also extremely hard on Insane difficulty without the use of any cards, Remnant from the Ashes was piss easy compared to this. If there's any caveat to the game I would say the campaign is a bit short and since dodging is host-side instead of client side like Remnant which makes dodging impossible when playing in high latency games. (Games like Monster Hunter use client-side dodging so no matter which country of the host you play with it feels the same)
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