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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 31611547
Last Record Update 11 October 2025 – 11:10:45 UTC ()
Release Date 19 June 2023 – 21:40:43 UTC ()
😎 85.94%
16k reviews
204
In-Game
+7
💡 Strategy 💥 Action 🤔 Tactical 🌐 RTS ▶️ Real Time Tactics

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
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metacritic_score 75
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ReleaseState released
Publisher Focus Entertainment
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Store Release Date 19 June 2023 – 15:00:00 UTC ()
osarch 64
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Social Media https://discord.gg/focusentmt
https://www.facebook.com/FocusEntertainmentOfficial
https://www.twitch.tv/focusentmt
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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
  •  
  • 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 ▶️ Real Time Tactics 🚀 Sci-fi 👤 Singleplayer 👽 Aliens 😱 Horror 😨 Dark 🌄 Action-Adventure 🌲 Survival 🗺️ Top-Down 🌠 Space 🧊 3D 👊 Violent 🥷 Stealth 🌆 Isometric ⚔️ Combat 🌟 Top-Down Shooter

Categories

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

Hardware Categories

Full Controller Support

Accessibility Categories

Adjustable Text Size Subtitle Options Color Alternatives Camera Comfort Custom Volume Controls Stereo Sound Surround Sound Playable without Timed Input Adjustable Difficulty Save Anytime

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timestamp15 September 2025 – 13:41:17 UTC

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Depots

ID Configuration Size DL.
228988 Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980VC 2019 Redist No size
228990 Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980DirectX Jun 2010 Redist No size
1150443 Windows 64-bit 92.07 MiB 25.33 MiB
1150441 Windows 64-bit 55.29 GiB 26.42 GiB
1150442 Windows 64-bitDLC 1155310SteamDB Unknown App 1155310 3.95 GiB 687.82 MiB

Total size on disk is 59.33 GiB and total download size is 27.11 GiB.

Total size on disk is 55.38 GiB and total download size is 26.44 GiB, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

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public 12774851 23 November 2023 – 10:08:39 UTC

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