Aliens Dark Descent Is Ridiculously Good

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For me, a massive fan of the universe, Alien games are few and far between. Good Alien games are even fewer and farther between. But, among various titles of questionable quality or even complete blunders, *cough* Colonial Marines *cough*, a gem shimmers from time to time. 2014’s Alien: Isolation was one of those gems.

Let me not beat around the bush too much. Aliens Dark Descent is to Isolation what the second film is to the first. You’re no longer mano-a-mano with the almighty xenomorph. This time, they brought friends.

Aliens Dark Descent is a real-time tactics game not dissimilar to W40k’s Dawn Of War or the successful XCOM series. It may be a departure from claustrophobic first-person action but never has such a switch-up made so much sense. Coupled with ingenious, innovative controls where your marines squad controls pretty much as a single character, the tense atmosphere of the all too familiar setting, fantastic play between shadow and light, and devilish difficulty, it’s nothing less than my game of the year so far.

Aliens Dark Descent is available now on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. Don’t let the acid hit you.

Where Is Star Citizen’s Squadron 42?

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2 July, 2023

Squadron 42, the singlepayer portion of Chris Roberts’ magnum opus MMO Star Citizen has disappeared from Cloud Imperium Games’ (CIG) pledge store a few weeks ago. And while CIG claims this has been done for a price change, I don’t know what to believe any more.

It’s important to remember, for example, that their Kickstarter promised 100 playable star systems at 6 million dollars. 12 years into development and scarcely credible six hundred million dollars later, they have… one. Incomplete, with miserable four disjointed gameplay loops.

Squadron 42 comes out of this much, much worse since it’s not an MMO. It’s a straightforward singlepayer campaign not dissimilar to, I imagine, Roberts’ Wing Commander. One that CIG’s own employees claimed to have played through the entirety of back in July 2016.

So. Where is Squadron 42?