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Aliens: Dark Descent

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App ID 1150440
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Focus Entertainment
Franchise Focus Entertainment
Supported Systems Windows
Technologies Unreal Engine
Last Changenumber 29390665
Last Record Update 5 June 2025 – 08:58:20 UTC ()
Release Date 19 June 2023 – 21:40:43 UTC ()
😎 86.07%
15k reviews
211
In-Game

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.

Additional Information

Developer Tindalos Interactive
metacritic_name Aliens: Dark Descent
controller_support full
metacritic_score 75
metacritic_fullurl https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/aliens-dark-descent?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1f
community_visible_stats Yes
DLCAvailableOnStore Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher Focus Entertainment
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urlhttps://store.steampowered.com//eula/1150440_eula_0
version2
Store Release Date 19 June 2023 – 15:00:00 UTC ()
osarch 64
community_hub_visible Yes
Social Media https://discord.gg/focusentmt
https://www.facebook.com/FocusEntertainmentOfficial
https://www.twitch.tv/focusentmt
https://x.com/Focus_Entmt
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaLdl0827np4QVPESo794og
Primary Genre Action (1)
Store Genres Action (1), Strategy (2)
Steam Release Date 19 June 2023 – 21:40:43 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 22 December 2023 – 14:38:49 UTC () (1703255929)
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Detected Technologies (?) Unreal Engine, NVIDIA_APEX SDK, NVIDIA_Ansel SDK, NVIDIA_GeForce_Now SDK, NVIDIA_Nsight_Aftermath SDK, NVIDIA_PhysX SDK, NvCloth SDK, Ogg SDK, Vorbis SDK, XAudio2 SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • This game's graphics settings cannot be configured to run well on Steam Deck
  •  
  • SteamOS:
  • This game runs successfully on SteamOS
  • Note: This game does not exit cleanly and may require you to manually quit via the Steam overlay
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  • category: Unsupported
  • steamos_compatibility: Compatible
  • test_timestamp: 13 June 2023 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 11282734
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Content Descriptors Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)
controllertagwizard Yes
First seen on SteamDB 27 August 2019 – 16:16:42 UTC (), in changelist #6787060
Content Descriptors (Including DLC) Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)

Supported Languages

12 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles Achievements
English Yes Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes
Italian Yes Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes
Korean Yes Yes Yes
Polish Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese - Brazil Yes Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes Yes Yes
Spanish - Latin America Yes Yes Yes
Traditional Chinese Yes Yes Yes
Japanese Yes Yes Yes

Tags

💡 Strategy 💥 Action 🤔 Tactical 🌐 RTS 🚀 Sci-fi ▶️ Real Time Tactics 👤 Singleplayer 👽 Aliens 😨 Dark 🌄 Action-Adventure 😱 Horror 🌲 Survival 🗺️ Top-Down 🌠 Space 🧊 3D 👊 Violent ⚔️ Combat 🌆 Isometric 🥷 Stealth 🌟 Top-Down Shooter

Categories

Single-player Steam Achievements Steam Cloud Family Sharing Cloud Gaming Cloud Gaming (NVIDIA)

Hardware Categories

Full Controller Support

Assets

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timestamp14 August 2024 – 09:30:22 UTC
Trailers
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Steam charts

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  • 211 players right now
  • 211 24-hour peak
  • 8,919 all-time peak 25 June 2023
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Store data

  • 69,046 followers
  • #1631 in top sellers
  • 14,003 positive reviews
  • 1,884 negative reviews
  • 88.14% positive reviews

Twitch stats

  • 0 viewers right now
  • 8 24-hour peak
  • 32,920 all-time peak
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  • 😎 Very Positive
  • 86.07% SteamDB Rating
  • 14,003 88.1% positive reviews
  • 1,884 11.9% negative reviews

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Markers

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19 June 2023 – 21:40 Steam Release -
1 April 2025 – 17:00 ⇄ Humble Bundle: April 2025 Humble Choice (#65) -

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How many players are playing Aliens: Dark Descent right now on Steam?

Steam player counter indicates there are currently 211 players live playing Aliens: Dark Descent on Steam.

Aliens: Dark Descent had an all-time peak of 8919 concurrent players on 25 June 2023.

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