Alien Breed 2: Assault
Skip · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $1.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.35/hr
- Reviews▼
- 71% of 1,060
- Critics
- 63 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 62% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.7h
- To 100%
- 9.1h 1.6x the story
- Finish
- 8% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 13
Price and sales
- Sales
- 111 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 June 2016
- Sale every
- 39d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 30% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
24% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was June 2016. It has been discounted 111 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
It is less well reviewed than 70 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Alien Breed: Impact ($9.99, scores 34) beats it on value, while it beats Red Faction®: Armageddon™ ($19.99, scores 28).
More about Alien Breed 2: Assault
63 from critics against 71 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 211 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
The screen shake from the first game is finally gone, there is more money, I feel like? to get upgrades, heals and ammo. There was no difficulty spikes, I only needed to use a turret twice and never used the armor consumable on the highest difficulty. During a level, I feel like there was 2 paths, one led me to be overwhelmed because I was saving a turret and wasn't expecting an immediate wave of survival and died...
2 more reviews
Recommended. A punchy top-down horde shooter on a ghost ship, whose weapon feel and log-driven horror carry a structure worn thin by detours and a climax that ends without a fight. The Hyper Blaster, assault rifle and flamethrower are properly kick-ass, and Intex vending upgrades give every earned credit an immediate home. Carol's diary of a station dying of a manufactured flu is the grimmest, best writing here, and...
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...
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About the game
Can you survive the alien onslaught? Gamers across the world will now have a chance to play the next chapter in this high-budget, high-quality series.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA 6800+ or ATI Radeon X700+ Video Card, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Alien Breed 2: Assault scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22650/alien-breed-2-assaultReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.