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Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Developer Cold Iron Studios
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a 2021 third-person shooter game developed and published by Cold Iron Studio. It takes place in the year 2202, 23 years after the events of the film Alien 3 (1992). A sequel titled Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 was released on August 25, 2026. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
424 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
73
Fresh
202 positive · 74 negative
95% range 68–78%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 202 | 74 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 10 | 1 | 128 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
14,386 of 17,651 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
74% recommend · 188 yes, 65 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 253 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (21,671 of 27,202 positive).
Players praise the game as a fun co-op experience, especially with friends. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note the game becomes repetitive and lacks content. [4][5][6] Several players report technical issues like bugs and save data loss. [7][8][9]
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- [7]
The game is fun, unless you run into the known-bug that deletes all your saved game data. Then you're in for a rude awakening as you've wasted not only your time, but your friends' time as well. Since you can't jump into the middle of the story at level 1, all three of us would have had to restart. Known bug remains unfixed. Until they patch it, I can't recommend this game to anyone, no matter how much fun it was …
- [1]
I still find myself thinking about coming back to this game. If you can find a couple of friends this game will consume a LOT of your time in the best way. The only reason I haven't reinstalled it is because I don't know how hard it would be to find people to play with. The AI left something to be desired but if you can find a couple of people to play with it's great. Just look at the hourcount I have. Almost all of …
- [11]
A GAME FOR THE FANS AND NO ONE ELSE I'm a big fan of the Alien franchise, and let me be the first to tell you that this game is only for huge fans of the series. You can play it without watching or enjoying any of the movies, but a lot of the stuff in this game piggybacks off of them to the point where I do not recommend doing so. If you want a game like this with more content, just play Deep Rock Galactic. If …
- [12]
A fairly fun 3rd-person shooter set in the iconic Aliens universe. Definitely a better game if you have a friend or two to play with, but it does work with bots if you want a solo experience. The campaign is extremely short, but atmospheric. If you like Aliens, then you will probably enjoy the feel of the game. One thing that I didn't like was that the aliens were extremely bullet-spongey. Hard to ramp up the …
- [2]
I have found myself liking the game more and more. Thankfully, as it appears you can co-op the gam to 3 people, which is awesome. I have already co-oped 3 persons and it was an awesome experience... The levels knida get repetitive, but thankfully you get new guns, attachments, and other items to make you and your team into bad ass alien killers! Graphics: Well done and they are reminiscent of the movie Prometheus, …
Summarised from 34 of the 307 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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Players who liked Aliens: Fireteam Elite talk about great co-op gameplay with friends; those who didn't talk about repetitive missions and lack of content. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Aliens: Fireteam Elite received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received fair approval, being recommended by 34% of critics. IGN gave the game a positive review, saying that "there's plenty of wild shootouts with swarms of xenomorphs" in the game, "but some awkward pacing and repetitive level design prevents it from being a classic." Eurogamer praised the way the xenomorphs attacked the player, feeling their ability to come from any direction added to the tension, "This means that even when you feel safe—and trust me, that won't be often—you won't be, because no matter how fortified…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 424 · 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 →EDIT: Thanks for the awards but I HATE writing negative reviews, especially for a game like this. I was going to write a good review because the gameplay is decent and mindless fun, even as someone who is not an Aliens fan. However, I cannot in good conscience recommend a game from a studio that treats its community with contempt. Cold Iron Studios recently shut down the Nintendo Switch version of the game after only three years, rendering it completely unplayable (even singleplayer w/bots)…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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/...
neutral · 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 →Oh, and Aliens: Dark Descent is on sale right now! I'm once again telling everyone to play Aliens: Dark Descent
neutral · 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 →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 →The game is fun, unless you run into the known-bug that deletes all your saved game data. Then you're in for a rude awakening as you've wasted not only your time, but your friends' time as well. Since you can't jump into the middle of the story at level 1, all three of us would have had to restart. Known bug remains unfixed. Until they patch it, I can't recommend this game to anyone, no matter how much fun it was before it wasted a collective 16 hours and demanded at least another 12 to get…
negative · 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.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm painting up some miniatures for the Aliens board game.
neutral · AI labelView post →beat the Aliens arcade game 👍👍
neutral · AI labelView post →Playing Message From Aliens, the fun and normal puzzle game about deciphering an alien language
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 →This game is a major disappointment because of the huge lack of content. The presentation of the Aliens universe is flawless in Fireteam Elite, and as an Aliens fan I was very pleased with the first couple of hours of gameplay. Unfortunately, the combat gets stale very fast. The shooting mechanics never feel quite right and the co-op aspects feel shallow. There are a lot of weapons, perks and cosmetics to grind for, but you can beat the whole game (including DLC) in under 8 hours, and the rest…
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.
neutral · AI labelView post →Good game but glitchy. On a middle of play-through stumbled upon a glitch that's at least 4 years old (according to reddit and steam discussions) that does not allow to play multiplayer. No I am locked from playing online. Can't join or invite friends. Possible fixes did not work. Damn cool.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →This can be a fun, Gears of War like experience in the Aliens universe but this comes with some major caveats and I don't recommend it as a fan of the franchise for the following reasons. For one, all the maps are boring and lackluster. The level design and lack of diversity is a real end-game killer. By the time you're at the place where you need to 'do runs / grind ' to level up, its off putting and mind numbing. Levels are not fun. Having multiple routes and adding even a basic level of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Free creepy Aliens fan game Aliens: Redacted REDUX released #Aliens #FreeGame #PCGaming #Retro #FPS
neutral · AI labelView post →Aliens: Fireteam Elite starts off pretty fun, but the gameplay becomes repetitive really quickly because most missions feel way too long and drawn out. The shooting is decent at first, but the lack of enemy variety makes every encounter feel almost the same after a while. Even with different classes and weapons, the missions don’t change enough to stay interesting. It’s more enjoyable with friends, but solo or long sessions can get boring fast.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad: online Bad: Network Bad: card system (back 4 blood) Bad: unbalanced difficulty (like back 4 blood) Bad: You can't use mods because they block your access to online play Bad: Players cannot join matches that have already started Bad: NO TEXT CHAT OR VOICE Bad: You need DLC to unlock perks that are better than the ones in the base game Bad: The perk system isn't very well implemented Bad: People who go AFK and it's even worse if they're on console Bad: You cant kick people (only if you back…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What's this, a new game?... An old game!? Aliens Go Home ReRun coming 2026! youtu.be/qyXlzccQ11Q
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 →Stay away! I liked and supported this game for a few years, but they have left it in an unusable place. The highest difficulty has always been "broken", meaning your team has to sort to cheating the CPU in order to beat the maps. I bought the last DLC, Pathogen, when it came out. But I've never been able to play it. The game crashes every time I try to load a mission from that DLC. I have tried it on 15 different combinations of hardware and different OS installations, but the bug is still…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really surprised with the glowing reviews. it's not that it's terrible. It's just really meh. Combat feels like a shooting gallery. Missions feels disconnected. Granted, I don't play co-op, so maybe that's where this game shines. But it was very underwhelming and, well, boring. I rarely don'y persist with games but I'm like "do I want to invest hours of my life grinding away in this repetitive, barebones game?' As a huge Aliens fan, was even more disappointing. But yeah, I don't really get the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My favorit video game ❤️Monsters vs Aliens
neutral · AI labelView post →I still find myself thinking about coming back to this game. If you can find a couple of friends this game will consume a LOT of your time in the best way. The only reason I haven't reinstalled it is because I don't know how hard it would be to find people to play with. The AI left something to be desired but if you can find a couple of people to play with it's great. Just look at the hourcount I have. Almost all of that is genuine playtime. The skill system is also super neat and the card…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decent game but started to have connection issues as of late. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Playing with friends became impossible for me and playing solo with bots that shoot you more than they shoot at enemies is a torture. Since the devs moved on I don't have much faith in this game but I would like to be surpised. It's a fun game if you can find someone to play with and are able to connect to them but otherwise look for something else.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing the sequel right now after it came out and wishing it was as good as this, the original game was. I wish they had just released more content for this game because it is far superior.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have found myself liking the game more and more. Thankfully, as it appears you can co-op the gam to 3 people, which is awesome. I have already co-oped 3 persons and it was an awesome experience... The levels knida get repetitive, but thankfully you get new guns, attachments, and other items to make you and your team into bad ass alien killers! Graphics: Well done and they are reminiscent of the movie Prometheus, which is fitting. I had to turned down some settings in the game as they down…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good game, too bad I don't have any friends to play with T_T
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →The game is not bad. But there is no save system and it is frustrating to go thru the whole mission like a hot knife thru butter. Just to be massacred at the very end with hords of aliens from every angle. And you have to go thru the whole hour long mission just to get killed again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All save data randomly reset and was lost. Waste of time and energy. If you cant be bothered to protect the one thing that matters in the game then dont ask people to play.
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 →Note: This review is for someone just entering the game for the first time. At its most ideal, this is a fun challenging experience. Due to the dwindling and unreliable player base… you’ll barely get that experience and the AI companions are NOT a suitable replacement. The classes, customizable skills, and weapons create a fun replayable experience in the Aliens universe. Enemy variety, modifiers, and various challenge increase replayability greatly. However, due to the reliance on co-op and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A GAME FOR THE FANS AND NO ONE ELSE I'm a big fan of the Alien franchise, and let me be the first to tell you that this game is only for huge fans of the series. You can play it without watching or enjoying any of the movies, but a lot of the stuff in this game piggybacks off of them to the point where I do not recommend doing so. If you want a game like this with more content, just play Deep Rock Galactic. If you're a fan reading this though, especially if you're big on Prometheus and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game doesn’t have servers by region, nor any minimum communication system. It has a ridiculous ping system, but that’s all — no text chat, no VoIP, no nothing. So they deliberately chose not to use ANY communication system, because they thought that we were all already connected via Discord, or that we would always have friends playing the same game at the same time. In that scenario, you’re supposed to use communication OUTSIDE the game. It’s ridiculous. It’s a huge disrespect to the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coming from finishing both Isolation and Colonial Marines, It was a bit of adjustment due to the third person aspect. But overall I enjoyed my experience playing fireteam elite. I do have to say I didn't get to play with anyone else because I have no friends and I didn't have any luck matching with any other players. But thank god the AI bots are solid enough to play by yourself. That said, you get different classes which of course I went gunner. My favourite type of play style, Running and…
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