Aliens: Dark Descent is a top-down cooperative bug blaster, coming 2023
Alien Swarm whomst?
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You’re all spoilt for choice when it comes to blasting Giger’s bugs with your pals. Not a year since the release of Aliens: Fireteam Elite, the franchise returns with a top-down take on team xenomorph hunts with the newly announced Aliens: Dark Descent.
And no, I don’t imagine that subtitle isn’tan Amnesia reference.
While most of the trailer reintroduces us to the well-worn phallic monsters, the team co-op bent had us thinking this may be an expansion or sequel to last year’sFireteam Elite. But a few brief gameplay snippets revealed this to be a top-down twin stick take on Aliens, secretly making this a spiritual successor to Valve’s criminally underplayedAlien Swarm.
Dark Descent is being developed by Tindalos Interactive, the Paris-based studio behind the quite goodBattlefleet Gothic: Armada 2. That’s a hell of a genre jump for the studio, but hey—that experience in creating hellish interstellar derelicts should count for something.
Aliens: Dark Descent is coming to unannounced PC storefronts in 2023.
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