Name: 'Aliens: Dark Descent' tells a new kind of video game story about Xenomorphs
Uploaded: 2022-06-09T18:48:06+00:00
Description: "Aliens: Dark Descent" is a new squad-based, real-time action game based on Ridley Scott's series. It's coming to PC, PlayStation, and Xbox in 2023.

'Aliens: Dark Descent' tells a new kind of video game story about Xenomorphs

There's very little gameplay, but the teasing glimpse raises lots of interesting questions.

What is Aliens: Dark Descent?

This trailer is more of a scene-setter than it is a full-blown gameplay reveal, but the official description describes it as a "single player squad-based action game set within the iconic Alien franchise." And if you watch all the way through, you'll catch a brief handful of glimpses at in-game environments that hint at what's to come.

The 2023 release from Tindalos Interactive and published by Focus Entertainment looks like a top-down action game, which is to say you're controlling characters and seeing the action unfold from a slightly canted bird's-eye view. Any other info will have to wait for another time, as the trailer is woefully short on specifics.

Aliens: Dark Descent is coming to PC, PlayStation, and Xbox sometime in 2023.

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