Alien Shooter
BANGER · Roguelike · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $2.27/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, Direct3D compatible 3D graphics card with 32 MB RAM, 51 MB of storage. Windows only.
The endless darkness and the somber, long passages of a military complex have become the abode of evil, thousands of blood-thirsty creatures fill its offices, storehouses and mysterious laboratories. About 1,000 monsters on each map, showing up to 100 monsters simultaneously on one playing screen.
What drives the score
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.49, set in October 2018. 51 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 27 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Space™ 2 ($3.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded ($4.99, scores 83).
This site sampled 412 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 1,209 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 6, 2.7 times as much.
The drop-off
66% 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
26 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
I've never played Alient Shooter before and for today's user feel really cool. Everybody should at least try 8/10
This is a amazing game that hold up well, but be warn that this can be hard even on normal.
A genuinely addicting, underrated top down shooter where the game gives you a crap ton of ammo and says "Okay, have fun killing thousands of aliens!"
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Alien Shooter scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/33100/alien-shooterThe 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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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