Aliens: Dark Descent
Aliens: Dark Descent
Game
Game2012
Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection
Developer Gearbox Software
Aliens: Colonial Marines is a 2013 first-person shooter developed by Gearbox Software and published by Sega for PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360. Based on the Alien 20th Century Fox universe and set shortly after the 1986 film Aliens, the game follows a group of Colonial Marines, a fictional military unit, as they confront the Weyland-Yutani corporation in an effort to rescue survivors from the Sulaco spaceship.… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
369 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
74
Fresh
161 positive · 56 negative
95% range 68–80%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 161 | 56 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 14 | 2 | 127 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
3,836 of 6,792 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
73% recommend · 151 yes, 55 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 206 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (7,610 of 12,272 positive).
Several note the AI is broken but can be improved with a config fix or mod. [1][2][3] Some say the game is a guilty pleasure or a love letter to the franchise despite its issues. [4][5][6]
Liked
Representative posts
- [10]
After playing and finishing Alien Isolation first, This was hard to enjoy in comparison. It's a shame really, underneath this mess of a game there is a good game waiting to be played. But there are too many issues with this to make this even a decent game. Honestly I love the idea of playing as a marine and gunning down every xenomorph that comes your way but the biggest issue with this game is the AI! I played the …
- [9]
Honestly, this game is pretty mid, but I can't even hate it. 😂 The gameplay is nothing revolutionary, the AI sometimes looks like it needs a GPS to find the player, and the whole thing feels like it had way more potential than what we actually got. The story, however, genuinely had potential and kept me interested enough to finish it. I'm just sad they don't really make games like this anymore. Give me a slightly …
- [2]
This is a game I've heard nothing but bad things about ever since it released over a decade ago. No doubt you've heard about such things as well. That signature Gearbox carelessness is how you'd end up with a single typo in a config file screwing up the enemy AI across an entire triple-A (by early 2010s standards) funded and produced video game. Just one of those supposedly bad games you'd hear about, come to the …
- [6]
Do you like to play bad games as a guilty pleasure? Go for it. Is the game dirt cheap? Sure. Do you like Alien? Well, at this point you might as well play it. But seriously, only play this if you answer yes to these questions. Otherwise, there are way better games out there. I just happen to play bad games as a guilty pleasure. Please take this into account, as this is a very conditioned recommended review. Ok, if …
- [1]
Inside your games config file (Documents\My Games\Aliens Colonial Marines\PecanGame\Config\PecanEngine.ini) is the following line of code : ClassRemapping=PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachXenoToTether -> PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachPawnToTeather Im sure you'll notice the spelling mistake ClassRemapping=PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachXenoToTether -> PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachPawnToTether If you fix it to look like the …
Summarised from 34 of the 260 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
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Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection sits at 74% positive across 217 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Colonial Marines received unfavorable reviews from critics, who criticized its uninspiring gameplay, technical issues, low-quality graphics, and superficial thrills, especially when compared to Cameron's film. Writing for IGN, editor Tristan Ogilvie remarked that, although Colonial Marines looks and sounds like Aliens, it does not feel like it and does not bring anything new to the first-person shooter genre. Kevin VanOrd of GameSpot described it as "a shallow bit of science-fiction fluff with cheap production values and an indifferent attitude." Also in agreement, Jose Otero of 1Up.com stated: "The weapons and sounds of ACM feel authentic, but the bland look of the game will make you think…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 369 · most liked firstalso always deeply funny that every sci-fi video game from 1999-2014 was trying to be Aliens, and copied everything except the...working class woman protagonist
neutral · AI labelView post →i have officially entered my skandi knife era. great for opening packages, skinning road kill, playing that game from the opening of Aliens, just a perfect size and form factor of knife
neutral · AI labelView post →I now kinda want to watch an Argentina-Paraguay game. The football equivalent of Aliens vs Predators.
neutral · AI labelView post →ALIENS “Game over, man, game over!” “Get away from her, you bitch!” “They mostly come at night. Mostly.” Great quotes from one of the best sequels in movie history! James Cameron’s ALIENS, starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henricksen, Bill Paxton & more was released OTD 40 years ago.
neutral · AI labelView post →Same. And yeah, there’s a lot to worry about, but if you come in my mentions to do the Bill Paxton “game over” scene from ALIENS, I’m blocking you
neutral · AI labelView post →Unpublished Aliens covers I did with colours by Simon Gough that were meant to connect to that rad Aliens game that came out a couple of years ago...
neutral · AI labelView post →"Look, man. I only need to know one thing: where they are." 📺: Aliens: The Computer Game, Activision, 1986. (C64 version)
neutral · AI labelView post →If Alien (1979) ended with the credits music from the Nintendo DS game Aliens Infestation (2011).
neutral · AI labelView post →Aliens: Dark Descent is 60% off right now, and I would highly recommend it. Absolutely one of the most incredibly tense games I've ever played. store.steampowered.com/app/1150440/...
positive · AI labelView post →Probably a card game called Asses & Aliens.
neutral · AI labelView post →Aliens are abducting our gamer (cow)girls 🐮👽🐰
neutral · AI labelView post →My new game zine! HOW DO ALIENS DO "IT"? is a game about confused teenage aliens trying to work out what their information-scarce society isn't telling them. It's playful, but approaches big themes lightly. It's pay what you like, but do pay nowt. #ttrpg kierongillen.itch.io/how-do-alien...
neutral · AI labelView post →Friends! We’re beyond excited to announce that "Elroy and the Aliens," our hand-drawn adventure game, is OUT NOW! 🚀 Here's the launch trailer 👇 #AdventureGame #IndieGames #Gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →I reviewed Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. It's more fun-if-janky horde shooting with a big expansion made to player options and character building. It's pretty good. Read here: www.thejimquisition.com/post/aliens-...
positive · AI labelView post →"This Time It's War. There Are Some Places You Just Don't Go Alone." That time when Square(soft) made an Aliens game for the MSX. 📖: Bi-Weekly Famitsu, June 1987,
neutral · AI labelView post →tossing a bit of a curveball with some xenomorph art. got sucked back into an old, niche aliens game so i just had to draw something funny red dog #xenomorph #aliens #art #digitalart
neutral · AI labelView post →the movie ALIENS: hey check out this allegory for the failures of the vietnam war every video game based on ALIENS: the vietnam war went great and kicked ass probably
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been spending some time lately preparing the next installments of my series on the design & making of ALL the spaceships in the Alien franchise. In total, there should be 11 parts 😅 (including bonus sections on ground vehicles and ships from canceled projects). Game over, Aliens: here we come.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, and Aliens: Dark Descent is on sale right now! I'm once again telling everyone to play Aliens: Dark Descent
positive · AI labelView post →10. Aliens: Dark Descent As a real-time strategy game, Dark Descent succeeds remarkably in replicating the tension of Aliens, you can be quickly overrun, you'll need to be sealing doors and creating choke points to deal with hunts as you explore, it's a masterpiece of creating tension with systems.
neutral · AI labelView post →Also some of the absolute best Star Wars Aliens in the Disney Era in Han and Lando's sabaac game
neutral · AI labelView post →Aliens (エイリアンズ) by Konami is a retro game for arcades from 1990.
neutral · AI labelView post →Inside your games config file (Documents\My Games\Aliens Colonial Marines\PecanGame\Config\PecanEngine.ini) is the following line of code : ClassRemapping=PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachXenoToTether -> PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachPawnToTeather Im sure you'll notice the spelling mistake ClassRemapping=PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachXenoToTether -> PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachPawnToTether If you fix it to look like the above and then play the game, the difference is pretty crazy!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New Milo Rossi video dropped! Ancient Aliens drinking game www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DXV...
neutral · AI labelView post →New Aliens game is available 🔥
neutral · AI labelView post →Joining in on the WE NEED PLANT SIMS chant because I need plant sims AND aliens in my game. Aliens can't be doing all this heavy lifting.
neutral · AI labelView post →Strange Planet is one of the best things out there, hands down. #aliens #ttrpg #rpg
neutral · AI labelView post →The pre-production work for this canceled game is fantastic. It's probably my fav Aliens game in an alt-universe.
positive · AI labelView post →Honestly, this game is pretty mid, but I can't even hate it. 😂 The gameplay is nothing revolutionary, the AI sometimes looks like it needs a GPS to find the player, and the whole thing feels like it had way more potential than what we actually got. The story, however, genuinely had potential and kept me interested enough to finish it. I'm just sad they don't really make games like this anymore. Give me a slightly janky Alien game with questionable decisions over another generic…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm painting up some miniatures for the Aliens board game.
neutral · AI labelView post →beat the Aliens arcade game 👍👍
positive · AI labelView post →The only narrative text in the game is at the end credits. It’s long but here it is. The LLM is actually just making a federal government take on it, which is actually kinda funny. —————————————————— I see the player you mean. PLAYERNAME? Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read our thoughts. That doesn't matter. It thinks we are part of the game. I like this player. It played well. It did not give up. It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a…
neutral · AI labelView post →Shut up and listen kid Heres what you're gonna do First Download an open source port of doom of your choice Then Head to Moddb Search for Aliens Eradication Download it Boot it up And only then you'll be able to erase this cesspool of a videogame from your mind
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Aliens: Dark Descent is one I just keep recommending every sale because there's very little like it, a real-time strategy game that captures the tension of the movie so, so god damn well. You've no idea how nailbiting it can be.
positive · AI labelView post →Board for the Operation: Aliens game, based on the abandoned Aliens cartoon series from 1993. Purest pop art.
neutral · AI labelView post →People's perception of arcade games is often skewed by what was available to them at the time. I've played some modern arcade games that are just utterly bullshit. Played an Aliens lightgun game where one credit was $2 and I died in literally ten seconds. And I've 1cc'd House Of The Dead!
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes, I called the new ALIEN RPG cinematic 'Operation Leading Edge' as a homage to publishers of the original ALIENS RPG, Leading Edge Games. It suits the nature of the adventure and works as a fond throwback; even though the game system wasn't great it was my only source of ALIENS info at the time.
neutral · AI labelView post →Free creepy Aliens fan game Aliens: Redacted REDUX released #Aliens #FreeGame #PCGaming #Retro #FPS
neutral · AI labelView post →Aliens: Dark Descent is another I'm very frequently recommending, but you'll know why if you play it, it's one of the most tense, anxiety inducing games I've ever had the joy to experience. Very much does for Aliens what Alien Isolation did for Alien.
neutral · AI labelView post →What's this, a new game?... An old game!? Aliens Go Home ReRun coming 2026! youtu.be/qyXlzccQ11Q
neutral · AI labelView post →"My tracker is getting lit up here, you better get ready for this." Aliens: Colonial Marines is a first-person shooter developed by Gearbox Software and published by Sega. Story Aliens: Colonial Marines is set 17 weeks after the events of Aliens (1986) movie. Emergency message send out by Dwayne Hicks from the USS Sulaco orbiting around LV-426 moon reaches the USS Sephora. They send out a full battalion of Colonial Marines to investigate the ship. You play as Corporal Christopher Winter who…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Out Now: Fine, Whatever! - The New Game of Aliens and Pigs a collage world full of aliens and pigs. find one million points. consider the realities you uncover. they're watching you. made with Plano. Free! play on desktop or phone. meal-ticket-games.itch.io/fine-whatever
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorit video game ❤️Monsters vs Aliens
neutral · AI labelView post →Playing Message From Aliens, the fun and normal puzzle game about deciphering an alien language
positive · AI labelView post →As you can probably see, I have played this game quite a bit and believe myself to be familiar enough with the base game, DLC, mods, and community to really give a review for those of you who may be considering this game in 2025 or later. First and foremost, the base game is pretty...bad. The guns are inaccurate, as in when you aim down the sites, you can literally see the bullets hitting AROUND your site, not on it. The AI is bad, the voice acting is bad, the dialogue is bad, the story is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nerding out over an old game. Ok so this probably won't be interesting enough for a lot of you but i'll still make this post. I'm on my 50th-60th fresh start in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. G.A.M.M.A. and i'm still enjoying it, even though i completed the game maybe 5 times. I haven't played for about 6 months and what got me back in AGAIN was a mod pack by CLICKR∆D called ROMEO and it's pretty straightforward install, download is a bit tedious because the mod pack is 30gb and it makes this 20+ year old…
neutral · AI labelView post →Today’s special bonus edition of #RandomRPGCover is the first edition of the “Aliens”-inspired board game Space Hulk, released in 1989. I loved this game, painted a ton of minis for it, and had the Deathwing and Genestealer expansions too. #warhammer #oldhammer #40k #warhammer40000 #boardgames
neutral · AI labelView post →I enjoyed this game a lot ,I honestly dont get the hate lmao ,its a fine game ,nothing mind blowing but nothing horrible just another decent shooter
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After playing and finishing Alien Isolation first, This was hard to enjoy in comparison. It's a shame really, underneath this mess of a game there is a good game waiting to be played. But there are too many issues with this to make this even a decent game. Honestly I love the idea of playing as a marine and gunning down every xenomorph that comes your way but the biggest issue with this game is the AI! I played the campaign on easy mode and holy sh!t some of the bugs I came across were…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Message From Aliens does not have a fishing minigame :(( #messagefromaliens #indiegame #gaming #videogames #fishing #fishingminigame
negative · AI labelView post →If you are a fan of the first 2 alien movies, you will enjoy this game. If you are a fan of the older Halo's, you will enjoy this game. I love the pulse rifle sound, same one from the movies!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Built a game between coaching sessions: Rotstar Survivor. Aliens board your ship room by room; build sentries, seal doors, evolve ridiculous weapons. Fully voiced, 5 sectors, free browser demo. https://solodeveling2.itch.io/rotstar-survivor #IndieGame #Roguelite #GameDev
neutral · AI labelView post →Aliens: Colonial Marines is a first person shooter that supports 4 player coop gameplay. This game world is larger than the earlier AVP. Colonial Marines is more oriented towards eliminating aliens which are abundant. Weapons are a basic assault gun and pistol. The gameplay and artwork are based on the Aliens film. The game was developed with the Unreal 3 engine. The game assets have been criticized for low resolution textures and weak lighting. The PC version is considered to be more…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a legend. they cheated all of us with that fake E3 trailer and it radically changed video game marketing in general. thank you
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Understand the frustration of players who love this universe, but it’s a mistake to write this game off. It has mechanics I find fun levels, skill points, and the ability to switch weapons, where I have them all at my fingertips but can choose freely when and which one I want. Okay, the story… I sometimes missed a few things myself and didn’t really get it… the why and how. That aside, though, when I consider the added flavor specifically the co-op mode, it’s great fun where I can shoot with…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why yes, I am a big fan of the Aliens arcade game! 🐙😅💜 Every early WIP for phase one of boss 3, Shub-Niggurath. #gamedev #stg #shmup #arcade #pixelart
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a ghost shark egg. It also looks like it would totally be at home in Aliens. I'm expecting a xenomorph to pop out. Game over, man. Game over!
neutral · AI labelView post →Derelikt -- a modern take of that real good Aliens game on Ps1 and system shock-y immersive sim fun store.steampowered.com/app/5242870/...
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't understand the hate for this game. It feels like an arcade style alien game rather than a horror game, which is awesome for those of us who don't want a isolation style game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →God, I totally forgot about this game. I played *so many hours* on the knock-off Aliens table
neutral · AI labelView post →
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