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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Prices
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Availability
We put this game to every storefront we collect. A market that answered not sold has told us something about the game; a market we never asked has not, and the two are never drawn the same.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 4.86/day in the week to Sep 3 → 9.71/day in the week after.
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Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $39.99 | 15.3Kreviews | 88% | — | $17.6M |
| $13.99−65% | 9.1Kratings | 73% | — | not modelled | |
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Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
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Reviews
Themes across 1093 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
The game has an interesting premise and a fitting visual style but the mechanics often feel half-baked and shallow, two steps short of achieving the minimum of their potential. The worst point though is the DEI/woke injections for 'representation' that are present on insane level. France is black and brown, and the French developers vowed to show it in 'Dark Descent.' I cannot recommend this game.
Honestly this game was really fun. Youre playing a genre of the over top camera squad shoooter (you can just pause when ever too). As an Aliens game it does well, if you like the lore and universe play on easy and have fun. If you like this genre its amazing. The game is buggy, for some it works fine and others it just wont play, if thats the case refund it. If its not, and it runs well. Amazing game, played twice so far!
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| $17.6M | 51.6K | 91% | $14.99 | |
| $17.6M | 16.5K | 47% | $39.99 | |
| $17.5M | 115.2K | 78% | $9.99 | |
| $17.5M | 26.8K | 60% | $24.99 | |
| $17.7M | 29.4K | 50% | $19.99 | |
| $17.7M | 35.8K | 94% | $19.99 |
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| $94.6K | 141 | 63% | $34.99 | |
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14 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.
14 on sale1 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask
The 1 “not sold” market is read from the Steam price pass of Aug 22: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price there. The 14 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 695.8/day in the week to Jul 16 → 7.43/day in the week after.
Too few observations to say whether a discount moves this store's chart at all: across the last 30 days Steam · Top Sellers · Poland has just 18 day-to-day chart moves that followed a price cut, against 2,498 that did not. We are publishing the count instead of a direction — 20 is the fewest we will draw a conclusion from, and price collection outside the United States began on 6 August 2026.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Japanese*languages with full audio support
| $11.99−70% |
| 3.5Kratings |
| 80% |
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| $39.99 | — | 93% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 1.1K reviews with recorded playtime.
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a great game with nothing out there like it. its basically its own genre. this game will leave you salivating for more... only to realize this is all there is and you end up crying yourself to sleep only to have a nightmare of that pure just sexy xenomorph stuffing her babies into you. AHEM.... anyway its a game that has no business being this good and innovative. especially for this franchise which seems to pump out mediocrity.
Bon jeu dans l'univers d'Alien. Certes il peut être un peu répétitif par moments mais dans l'ensemble c'est bien sympa. Histoire sans énormes surprises mais qui fait le boulot
Insanely good Aliens game! CRAZY there hasn't been another RTS
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A penúltima missão é do caralho de difícil, ainda mais se vc chegar nela faltando um dia pra o planeta explodir igual eu 🐟
JOGAÇO
The game is awesome, a great Alien experience. After the Fireteam disaster, this is what Alien needed, not that other game. Narratively it's pretty good, not a 10 but an 8 or a 7, a typical alien story with Weyland-Yutani entanglements and the like. It's not exactly terrifying, but it does make you tense, not so much because of the jump scares, but because of losing highly trained soldiers that you've spent a lot of time improving. It seems easy to 100% it at least, generally speaking; I did miss some side missions that got bugged, sadly. The gameplay is entertaining and keeps your attention, which is very good. Base management, well, it leaves much to be desired honestly, but it does its purpose. I recommend trying it if it's on sale; I don't think you'll be disappointed, unless you're not a fan of XCOM-style strategy games. Then will probably disappoint you. 8/10
Easily the best Aliens game with emphasis on Colonial Marines action. An original story that contributes to the Aliens canon rather than breaking it. Extremely addictive game loop of running between rooms a la Scooby Doo cartoon, setting up traps, defensive points and making things go boom. There are a few rare bugs, but don't worry if it's not the type of a bug hunt you expect - nothing a quick reload can't fix and auto saves are very frequent. Unfortunately, as the devs lost the license shortly after, I doubt the game will ever receive a DLC. No sequel would make sense as the story is very much self-contained. As such, this game will remain a lightning in a bottle. I am hopeful the team produces something similar in the future, perhaps a Starship Troopers game, that could very well be possible with a few alterations to the game mechanics.
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