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Aliens: Dark Descent

Developer Tindalos Interactive Publisher Focus Entertainment Format PC (tested), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series Release Out now

Don’t be fooled by generic wrapper. This top-down tactics game might borrow a few tools from Firaxis’ strategic workbag – the base management, the deployment phase, the ‘race against time’ overarching narrative. But step outside the game’s ad-hoc headquarters, the stranded spacecraft USS Otago, and your shoulder muscles will be twisted into knots by a very different kind of extraterrestrial nightmare. This is because it does what all the best tie-ins do, pinning down James Cameron’s blockbuster and extracting its systems

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