Aliens: Dark Descent

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App ID	1150440
App Type	Game
Developer	Tindalos Interactive
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

303

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

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full

metacritic_score

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https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/aliens-dark-descent?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1f

community_visible_stats

Yes

DLCAvailableOnStore

Yes

ReleaseState

released

Publisher

Focus Entertainment

eulas

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Store Release Date

19 June 2023 – 15:00:00 UTC ()

osarch

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
category: Unsupported
steamos_compatibility: Compatible
test_timestamp: 13 June 2023 – 00:00:00 UTC
tested_build_id: 11282734

configuration:

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requires_non_controller_launcher_nav	0
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requires_internet_for_setup	0
requires_internet_for_singleplayer	0
recommended_runtime	proton-8.0-2
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hdr_support	0

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

Hardware Categories

Full Controller Support

Accessibility Categories

Custom Volume Controls

Stereo Sound

Surround Sound

Playable without Timed Input

Adjustable Difficulty

Save Anytime

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timestamp	15 September 2025 – 13:41:17 UTC

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Aliens: Dark Descent

Additional Information

Supported Languages

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