
The voice work is also impressive, particularly the two main characters, Hayes and Harper. The music, too, is excellent and sets the menacing tone well. From the body horror squelches of chest bursters to the shrieks of their drones and warriors as they attack. All the classic Xenomorph sounds are well-represented. The most obvious place to start is the top-notch presentation, the sound design especially. Was it worth being metaphorically disemboweled? Let’s find out.Ī code for this game was provided by the developer for this review.

Over the course of the last two weeks, opinions have been growing slowly in my chest, wrapping their insidious tendrils around my internal organs, just waiting to burst forth and skitter across the floor into a vent. It is available now for PC, PlayStation 4/5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One and Series X/S. Aliens: Dark Descent by Tindalos Interactive is a real-time squad-based strategy game in the vein of XCOM with a dash of Darkest Dungeons and Starcraft.
