Alien Breed 2: Assault
Skip · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $0.99.
- Length
- 5.6h
- Value
- $0.18/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA 6800+ or ATI Radeon X700+ Video Card, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was June 2016. It has been discounted 110 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $0.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 25 at list, 30 today.
It is less well reviewed than 68 percent of its genre. On the same math Alien Breed: Impact ($9.99, scores 34) and Halo: Spartan Strike ($2.99, scores 57) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data says about 8 percent of players ever finish it. On a 5.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 206 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
24% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 5.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
The game is not bad, quite short, but that's good because it gets repetitive quickly. The story is not bad. The explosions could have been smaller and the controls more stable. For me, the big minus is the upgrade system. Too small and too expensive. There are only three upgrades for the hero, for each weapon there are also three, but you can only use one and most always for more power. And nothing is saved if you...
Just finished Alien Breed 2 and honestly… I spent half the game feeling like a space janitor with a gun and no budget. The atmosphere is chef's kiss though. It's dark, creepy, and constantly whispering "you're about to run out of ammo." Which you will. A lot. Loot is so scarce that finding a single medkit feels like winning the lottery. It's tense, a bit unforgiving, and somehow makes opening a locker more exciting...
Anyone with a handheld like the Steam Deck should definitely give these Alien Breed games a try, even if you're not usually into isometric twin-stick shooters. It looks like a new game and has aged amazingly well. The comic-book style interludes and the voice acting are great. It has full controller support, it's just missing on-screen button icons. One thing I'd recommend is going online and looking up how to...
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Alien Breed 2: Assault scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22650/alien-breed-2-assaultThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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