Alien Breed 3: Descent
Skip · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $1.92/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA 6800+ or ATI Radeon X700+ Video Card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in June 2016. It has been discounted 108 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 15 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Among the games that feel like it, Alien Breed: Impact ($9.99, scores 34) beats it on value, while it beats Alien Breed 2: Assault ($0.99, scores 30).
The press gave it 64; the people who bought it give it 74 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
The drop-off
22% start to 6% 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
1 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
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...
Alien Breed 3: Descent is the climactic finale of Team17's modern revival of the classic Alien Breed series, delivering a tightly focused, action-heavy conclusion that leans into spectacle, pressure, and mechanical refinement rather than reinvention. Designed as the third chapter in an episodic trilogy, the game assumes familiarity with its predecessors and escalates their ideas into a relentless descent toward...
This game is a slog to get through. Boring as hell, and it's way longer than it's supposed to, like 3 hours longer at least. I liked the first one, the second was a bit boring by the end, but this is just bad from the start. There is always a locked door, a missing key card, an elevator power surge or a flood to drain, everything is designed to waste your time and prolong the gametime. And the character is stuck on...
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Alien Breed 3: Descent scores 33/100 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/22670/alien-breed-3-descentThe 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 4, price as of Sep 24.
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