Aliens: Dark Descent is a new real-time strategy game where players control a squadron of alien-decimating space marines.
If you’ve always dreamt of embodying Ripley from the Aliens franchise of movies and prefer strategy games over FPS or RPGs, then Aliens: Dark Descent, the new game under development by Tindalos Interactive and published by Focus Entertainment might end up on your wishlist soon. Keep reading for everything you would want to know about the game, including the Aliens: Dark Descent release date, gameplay trailer, and story.
Aliens: Dark Descent Release Date
Players will be able to delve into real-time tactical action starting this summer. The highly-anticipated Aliens: Dark Descent will release on June 20, 2023, for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox X/S.
Aliens: Dark Descent Gameplay Trailer
The two-minute gameplay trailer showcases the top-down real-time combat in the game. While the interface looks very like Xcom, Dark Descent is not a turn-based game, as all the action happens in real-time.
Also, you’ll control a full squadron of space marines, each of which you can customize and upgrade as you play through the game’s missions. Using dark, H.R. Giger-like settings makes this feel like it fits right into the Alien universe.
Aliens: Dark Descent Story
Aliens: Dark Descent is set 20 years after the events of Alien 3. You play as a squad of space marines that have crash-landed on a distant planet and must investigate an eerily vacant military base.
Players assume the role of a commander controlling a squad of four battle-hardened space marines. While not directly tied into the movie franchise, you can think of Dark Descent more as a side quest to the movie canon.
Aliens: Dark Descent is on the Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox stores.
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