Alien Breed 2: Assault
Alien Breed 2: Assault
Game
Game2010
Alien Breed: Impact
Developer Team17 Software Ltd.
Alien Breed: Evolution (known as Alien Breed: Evolution – Episode 1) is an isometric shooter game in Team17's Alien Breed series and is the first title in the series since 1996. It was released for the Xbox 360 on 16 December 2009. An updated version called Alien Breed: Impact was released for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 3 in the following year. It was followed by Alien Breed 2: Assault released in September… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
280 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Oct 20, 2026 · last updated Oct 21, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
71
Fresh
129 positive · 53 negative
95% range 64–77%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 129 | 53 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 18 | 6 | 68 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
677 of 955 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
71% recommend · 132 yes, 53 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 185 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (1,425 of 1,911 positive).
Players praise the game's nostalgic feel and solid twin-stick shooter gameplay. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize the camera controls and repetitive mission design. [4][5][6] A few players report technical issues like crashes or screen shaking. [7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
I really wanted to like this game and have played it for a few hours. However, I think this is it for me, I am just not enjoying it. Here are my issues with Alien Breed: - The camera angles are terrible. If you like to play a game where you have to continuously adjust the camera all the while moving about, this is for you then. - The action itself is terrible. The guns and alien creatures (so far there are only 4-5 …
- [1]
Pretty darn solid... maybe someday I'll get back to it and finish it. It's also not the most amazing exemplar of the genre but if you dig a top down rendition of an Aliens action movie type game... here's a good one of those. Oh yeah it has couch coop, they should add that to the feature list.
- [2]
It's a pretty straight forward isometric arcade twin-stick shooter. Simple to pick up gameplay, mild maze layouts with typical backtrack and find the key mechanics. Graphics are average for 2010; sounds and music are suitable for the genre. At this price, it's a cheap fun few hours of wiping out alien swarms with guns and grenades. --- Bottom line: It's simple, it's cheap and it's fun if you like twin-stick …
- [3]
Got a great sense of nostalgia from the old Amiga days while playing this . Best played late at night with headphones on and lights off .
- [9]
I played the original of this at 13 years old on the Amiga when Aliens was at the Cinema and life felt simpler, hands down the best alien adaption game there is, the remake is just the same as the original with better graphics and the same feel, If you loved the original this game is a must have. Wish the originals were included updated. Get this if stranger things made you feel like you had turned 10 again you will …
Summarised from 34 of the 277 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
71% of the 185 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Alien Breed: Impact. The complaint that keeps coming up: camera controls are frustrating. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game received "mixed or average reviews" on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Many critics found the game repetitive and complained about the lack of variety throughout its campaign. IGN commented of the Xbox 360 version: "Anyone who played the original Alien Breed back in the day will find their simple top-down shooter is all grown up with great lighting effects, an atmospheric soundtrack, and affecting cinematic events -- but the gameplay itself is rooted in 1990." Eurogamer praised the production values, but added that "a flawed approach to co-op play and an inherent lack of variety ultimately count against it." Edge gave a scathing review,…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 280 · most liked firstThe sheer audacity of Alien Breed '92's end sequence! This is it! All of it! It goes from "This is your fault for buying a budget game" to "We ran out of space but on purpose" via "Using our ~huge~ selection of in-game cheats means you wasted your time" and then "Please buy AB2!" Fuck you too, AB92!
negative · AI labelView post →One of the iconic Amiga game covers: Alien Breed. Toothy. 💜
neutral · AI labelView post →Everyone can now read this new article on Alien Breed SE '92, a thoughtfully made and finely crafted game that decides to chuck every bit of goodwill it's earned out the window at the last minute: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/01/30/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →#sharpscii A long while back Datadoor and I were throwing ideas around for a Gauntlet / Alien Breed style overhead game for the MZ. Maybe one day.
neutral · AI labelView post →Next Week on XBOX - CONTROL Resonant, Dune: Awakening, EA Sports FC 27, Graveyard Keeper 2, Alien Breed 35th Anniversary, and more! Read here: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →This is part of our mission to preserve Commodore software history (these first six games in the Alien Breed series are a staple of the beloved Commodore Amiga). - 6 Brutal Games - Couch & Online Co-Op - New Game Modes - Dual Stick & Mouse and Keyboard - Virtual Museum - Packed with Retro Features
neutral · AI labelView post →Pretty darn solid... maybe someday I'll get back to it and finish it. It's also not the most amazing exemplar of the genre but if you dig a top down rendition of an Aliens action movie type game... here's a good one of those. Oh yeah it has couch coop, they should add that to the feature list.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New blog! For sentimental reasons, I replayed Alien Breed: Tower Assault, a special game from my youth, and found myself immersed in its open-world survival horror all over again! gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com/2025/02/16/a...
positive · AI labelView post →Disconnect. - Chief Engineer Cobalt Sum-Up In-depth analysis further down. 🟩 Pros 🟥 Cons • Fun shoot'em up with friends. • Does a good job at keeping the game somewhat tense. • Weapons feel somewhat the same, despite the differences in how they shoot. • Objectives feel the same, with a repetitive step-by-step process from terminal to terminal. • Camera feels weird in controlling it and requires tweaking it through mods and other configurations. • Lacks monster…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even the floor layouts of the Team17 game Alien Breed Trilogy cries opuit for a boardgame! With modular tiles! AND MINIATURES!
neutral · AI labelView post →Indie Retro News: Xenomorph AGA - An Alien Breed style top down Aliens game is in development for the Amiga! www.indieretronews.com/2025/07/xeno... #retrogaming #amiga #commodoreamiga
neutral · AI labelView post →Zombie Nest GBA is a new $1 action roguelike for Game Boy Advance Indie developer Enarkz just released Zombie Nest GBA, a top-down shooter blending Alien Breed homage with roguelike mechanics for original hardware and emulators. #Retro #gameboyadvance #homebrew #indiegames #roguelike
neutral · AI labelView post →All Ko-fi supporters can read this brand new piece on Alien Breed '92 a full week before anyone else! It's a brilliantly clever game in many ways... that goes and chucks all the goodwill its built up right down the drain at the very end... ko-fi.com/post/Alien-B...
neutral · AI labelView post →I STILL WANT TO CREATE AN ALIEN BREED TABLETOP GAME, DAMN YOUR EYES!
neutral · AI labelView post →Attempted multiple times to launch the game but it just kept crashing straight away. Reinstalled it, Verified my files but nothing worked.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ALIEN BREED. (Team17 Collection 1) One of Team17's most well-known games, Alien Breed blends top-down action games and what we would later come to know as survival horror, all in a legally distinct sci-fi universe populated by slobbering aliens. evercade.co.uk/cartridges/t... 33/365 #365games
neutral · AI labelView post →(the formative mid-90s Rossignol game design experiences were trying to make a clone of Alien Breed with my friend Griber, and trying to work out how to make Palladium rulesets fun to play, which ended up very OSR, now that i think about it)
neutral · AI labelView post →STEEL FORCE. (Piko Arcade 1) Another intriguing obscurity from Piko Arcade 1, this Italian action game takes some cues from the Team17 horror classic Alien Breed, but ratchets up the intensity of the action considerably. evercade.co.uk/cartridges/p... 214/365 #365games
neutral · AI labelView post →🌟 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45575657]Follow Ainsel Reviews - Curator for the weird & lovely. 🌟 Imagine Doom got drunk, married a xenomorph, and had a child raised on late-night sci-fi reruns. That’s Alien Breed: Impact. The story? Something-something derelict spaceship, evil AI, and aliens oozing out of every air duct. The gameplay? Run, gun, scream, reload, repeat. You’re basically space exterminators with PTSD and bad communication skills. It’s clunky, campy, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Settings with a great premise that you can expand upon. Worlds I've thought about are slice-of-life, ones that touch on a larger world. Like the updated 'Alien Breed' from Team17 or Duncan Jones' 'Moon'. I even created an expanded universe for 80s arcade game 'Asteroids'. It's a challenge! 2/2
neutral · AI labelView post →I still want to create an Alien Breed RPG. I've got this thing about expanding the borders of game worlds with simple or narrow settings, usually because the background is designed to serve the game.
neutral · AI labelView post →The latest from a computer RPG legend, a cartoon franchise which finally gets an enjoyable game, and a roundup of Commodore news including Alien Breed and the new Commodore 77 model. youtu.be/OD0Ve5d7-Qs And add your patron Q&A question now at www.patreon.com/thisweekinre... !
neutral · AI labelView post →Alien Breed 3D HD: Out Now?. #amiga #retrogaming Alien Breed HD ports the game and its engine for modern systems to preserve the exact look and feel. DL or play in browser. links in YT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFvi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Computer-wise, the ALIEN BREED games on The Amiga. On the table-top, CALL OF CTHULHU.
neutral · AI labelView post →Steel Force is a real oddity of an arcade game - a clear knockoff of the Amiga game Alien Breed, but made by a Spanish developer and produced by an Italian arcade distributor. It's mindless shooting fun with some decent boss battles! #gaming #videogames #retrogames
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a pretty straight forward isometric arcade twin-stick shooter. Simple to pick up gameplay, mild maze layouts with typical backtrack and find the key mechanics. Graphics are average for 2010; sounds and music are suitable for the genre. At this price, it's a cheap fun few hours of wiping out alien swarms with guns and grenades. --- Bottom line: It's simple, it's cheap and it's fun if you like twin-stick shooters. --- [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38232109/]While you are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hate games with maze like structures. I hate games without an epic IN GAME music score I hate escort missions (Level 2). But I love Alien Breed Impact. This is an isometric, creepy sci fi alien game that is absolutely best played with a controller (IMHO). What they have done, since it's a twin stick, is put camera rotation on bumpers. It actually works well with a little adjustment time, and I highly recommend a comfy controller with big chunky bumpers, like an 8BitDo Ultimate 2C or the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When this game came out I didn't have the computer strong enough to run this game. Now I do. The game is actually pretty good for what it is. A horror - sci-fi - shooter. Go here...shoot that thing over there...collect that there and so on.... It's not a game that the spoiled generation would appreciate I suppose. This game here you need to try if you love video-games for more than just the latest graphics and player count.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Backtracking simulator. Too boring and repetitive even compared to games of the same age.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game and have played it for a few hours. However, I think this is it for me, I am just not enjoying it. Here are my issues with Alien Breed: - The camera angles are terrible. If you like to play a game where you have to continuously adjust the camera all the while moving about, this is for you then. - The action itself is terrible. The guns and alien creatures (so far there are only 4-5 types I have encountered, actually only 3, the 2 new ones only just appeared 5…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, realised I have 1100+ games in my Steam library and I was going to die before I played them all. So thought I'd spend a bit of time on each one, a new one every night and leave a short initial review. I liked this one but ended with a whimper. The graphics are great and the shooting is good and cool. Would imagine this will be great on Steam Deck. However I spent the last 10 mins of play just wandering round trying to find the next objective. When I only have an hour to play, wandering…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too many answers to this. Sensi. Monkey Island. Speedball 2. Cannon Fodder. Killing Game Show. Moonstone. Flashback. Steel Sky. Lemmings. Syndicate. Chaos Engine. Walker. SWIV. Alien Breed. How does anyone pick just one?
neutral · AI labelView post →We need to have an honest conversation about Alien Breed, particularly Alien Breed 2, on Amiga. I've come to the realisation that it's not a good game. Needlessly punishing, poor level design and repetitive gameplay which doesn't feel satisfying.
negative · AI labelView post →Recently my YouTube channel has been very Amiga focussed. It’s time to get back to The ZX Spectrum Next. Channel Members/Patreon Members Only:- 14.04.26. Playing Alien Breed 2 On Amiga 600 17.04.26. Making Spectrum Next Game Music Live 21.04.26. Playing A Spectrum Next Game?
neutral · AI labelView post →You fight the camera more than you fight aliens. Pedestrian level design, with lots of backtracking and Siri-levels of navigation. More monster closests than Doom 3. Could have been fun, but isn't.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm also a massive fan of the Alien Breed games from Team17 - the trilogy from a few years ago would make a great miniatures game, and the endin g of the game left it open for more shenanigans. I'd love to explore more of this universe beyond the games.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think I can make this game 30% better in 10 seconds. By NOT shaking the entire screen with explosion every 5 seconds. This has to be the most obnoxious *special* effect that I can remember. I get it, you're proud of it - and it's great. For the first 3 times. But when it goes on and on and on and on, it just made me nauseous and really difficult to enjoy what is a great looking game. Even the menu just keeps shaking and distorting as if to induce seizure. Second thing is that the missions…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is more concerned with being pretty than being fun to play. It has some positives, the graphics and atmosphere are nice (I'm sure it looked beautiful in 2010), the gameplay is decently fun twin-stick shooter action when it works, the sound design is good, enemies have unique spawn in noises and the music is decent, and when enemies spawn in ambush patterns surrounding you on all sides, there's genuine tension and fun to be had. The problems lie everywhere else, and I mean everywhere.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got the trilogy for £1.67 on sale, absolute steal!!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got a great sense of nostalgia from the old Amiga days while playing this . Best played late at night with headphones on and lights off .
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd still love to create a tabletop game for Alien Breed. Team17, what are you doing with the IP?
neutral · AI labelView post →quite possibly one of the most boring things i have ever played. i do not know why i didnt ask for a refund before the two hour mark, because for the time i did spend playing this it was all the exact same gameplay loop of just absolutely nothing. i own all three of these games because i was brainwashed into playing it for 4 hours over the course of like a week and will probably never play this ever again because there's no reason to. this is the kind of game that you play then step away from…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Failed to leave the same IMPACT on me like my dad did when he left and abandoned the whole family with the last word 'I'm gonna grab the milk' when I was 5. 0/10 for Lacked depth and failed parental performance. Both should be uninstalled. Dad didn't meet performance goals. If he didn't leave I would give it a 6/10. My life is a meme and so is my dad 0/10.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just discovered this while searching for Alien Breed content. I've never heard of this game but immediately feel a deep desire to play it!
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW GAMES THIS WEEK! ⚔️ Arcade fighter Mighty Warriors 🐝 Jatai The Bee for Atari 2600 🏓 Intex mini-game Challenge Mode for Alien Breed! Play these & more on Antstream Arcade for Xbox, PS4/5, PC, mobile & more! 👾
neutral · AI labelView post →Original review at 0.7h play time: (edit once completed bellow) Early review, just to point out the negative reviews' lack of skills and ability to optimize their experience. I'm curently on max difficulty for the achievement, the difficulty is pretty balanced, no bullet sponge, just fast enemies (I guess since I never played it before). Reload is way too fast, Healing consumables almost don't heal anything but you got a lot of max hp to compensate and access to upgrade how much they heal…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sweet game. reminds me of a top down Dead Space, maybe a bit on the cheap side. Make friends with the camera angle buttons if you use a controller, you'll be using them a lot. I saw this game on youtube included in a list of 25 must play old isometric games. I'll have to check out the other Alien Breed games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is Outpost. It's an Adobe Flash game which looks to me like it was inspired by Alien Breed #pcgaming #flashgames #adobeflash #retrogaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Game devs, post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game. Alien Breed 3D (1995), New Star GP (2024)
neutral · AI labelView post →Works well on steam deck
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What's your "no one but me remembers" game? Stunt GP probably. One of the lesser-known games by Team 17, most people only think of worms or maybe their Amiga era games like Alien Breed. Criminally underrated, IMO. I think most critics didn't understand how the game's stunt system worked.
neutral · AI labelView post →Misleading!! do not be fooled. despite the clear title through extensive research i found no feasible way to breed the aforementioned alien. -80billion/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played through the whole trilogy on GOG already so this is a review of all 3 games, the 2nd and 3rd game are basically just more missions and a few new weapons so no real reason to review them separately. These games are super underrated and I can't believe I didn't play them sooner. I got the trilogy for free on GOG but had to buy them on Steam too because they're absolutely worth the price. Graphics and overall production values are extremely good for a 2010 game of this type and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Anyone with a handheld like the Steam Deck should definitely give this a try. It plays great and has aged amazingly well. It looks like a new game. The story and voice acting are good too with comicbook interludes and continues directly into the next 2 instalments. It has full controller support the only thing missing is button icons.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It takes some impressively bad design for a game to outstay it´s welcome during the very first level.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad camera, not an optimal control scheme, explosions all the time obscuring the action a lot of the time, not good overall.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Would have been fun without the extremely heavy, extremely regular, (it's set to happen every seconds), and full of motion blur camera shake. It completely destroyed the otherwise enjoyable solo campaign. So if you don't mind destroying your eyes, it's alright. I usually am totally fine with camera shakes, even big ones. But this game set it to one big blurry long and annoying every second. I tried setting all the values to 0 and false in the .ini files but it didn't work. Uninstalling now. :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just picked up the Alien Breed 3D. This game is BADASS
positive · AI labelView post →OMG! dream come true to co-host the new game show PIXEL ARCADIA! Loads of exclusive world premieres of modern retro games! including Masters of the Universe from @bitmapbureau.com and Alien Breed from @commodoreofficial.bsky.social Watch 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkQW... #retrogaming
neutral · AI labelView post →If it had a fixed angle, the perspective was slightly more from above and it had transparency of walls in the way of vision it would have been so much better.
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