Review Information
Platform reviewed: PC
Available on: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC
Release date: June 19, 2023
Aliens: Dark Descent doesn't seem like it should be a horror game. Viewing the action from an impassive isometric view, in this squad-based, single-player game, you direct your team around a series of sci-fi facilities that look like they were falling apart even before they got attacked by monsters from space. It's fairly mundane, you can double-click to make the team run and you scoot around taking care of objectives and hoovering up supplies. And then the Xenomorphs appear, and without fail, everything takes an express elevator to hell and it quickly becomes a candidate for a survival game.
