The motion tracker does most of the scaring. You command a squad of colonial marines in real time, pausing to give orders while blips close in from three sides. It is horror from the command chair, and it makes you feel the cost of every bad call, because a dead marine stays dead. I have limited evenings, and this one asks for focus I did not always have. Missions run long and the learning curve is steeper than anything above it. If you want something unlike the usual survival horror, nothing else on Game Pass plays like it.


Aliens: Dark Descent
June 20, 2023StrategyESRB M
Overview
About Aliens: Dark Descent
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.
Reference
At a glance
- Released
- June 20, 2023
- Platforms
- Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4
- Genres
- Strategy, Adventure, Action
- Play modes
- Single Player
- Age rating
- ESRB M
Media
Screenshots
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Playing together
Multiplayer & game modes
Aliens: Dark Descent offers various play modes for different gaming experiences.
Play Modes
Single Player
Content
Age ratings
How rating boards around the world have classified Aliens: Dark Descent. Open a board for its content descriptors.
ACBMA 15+
CLASS_IND16
ESRBM
- Blood and Gore
- Violence
- Strong Language
GRAC19+
- Language
- Violence
PEGI16
- Bad Language
- Violence
USK16
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