Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Fair · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.4h
- Value
- $3.57/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD R9 285 4GB / Nvidia GTX 760 4GB, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in April 2025. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 49 in the 5 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 29 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Space™ 2 ($3.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection ($29.99, scores 8).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 34 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 61 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 2,338 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 8.4 hours; clearing it takes 66, which is 7.8 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
72% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
281 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A fairly fun 3rd-person shooter set in the iconic Aliens universe. Definitely a better game if you have a friend or two to play with, but it does work with bots if you want a solo experience. The campaign is extremely short, but atmospheric. If you like Aliens, then you will probably enjoy the feel of the game. One thing that I didn't like was that the aliens were extremely bullet-spongey. Hard to ramp up the...
Playing the sequel right now after it came out and wishing it was as good as this, the original game was. I wish they had just released more content for this game because it is far superior.
Game starts off just fine, but every mission is the exact same thing: Enter room. Clear out hostiles. Maybe a special will spawn. Next room. Rince and Repeat. There is no text comunication. Difficulty is artificial as all it does is reduce your resources while making enemies tankier and stronger. The most recomended strategy on "Intense" or higher is to cheese every encounter by standing just outside a doorway...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1549970/aliens-fireteam-eliteThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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