Alien Shooter: Revisited
Skip · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews
- 65% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, nVidia GeForce2 / ATI Radeon 8500 or better video card with 128 MB video memory, 246 MB of storage. Windows only.
Crowds of blood-thirsty monsters, crawling from every corner of the secret research base. Gloomy basements and modern labs, darkness changing into blazing bulbs. The only usual thing is: you're in a bad place alone, and there's no one to help you!
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was December 2021. It has been discounted 48 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 10 weeks between sales. 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 10 weeks.
It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Alien Shooter ($4.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Guardians of Orion (Phase 2) ($0.99, scores 0).
3 of the 478 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 276 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 41 percent of everything written about it.
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
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What players say
Alien Shooter: Revisited is a top-down Shooter which delivers a satisfying feeling blasting thousands of aliens with a vast array of cool weapons. This "Revisited" version comes with graphics and some other QOL improvements but fails to run properly on modern machines without lag, HUD and font size problems. Play the original.
Alien Shooter: Revisited Disappointing and Terrible Shooter Adaptation Not really worth trying! Alien Shooter: Revisited is an unnecessary and uninspired remake of the first entry in the Shooter series. Although this version tries to modernize the original game with some graphical improvements and a few gameplay mechanics from the Alien Shooter 2, in practice it offers a very similar experience to the original...
Alien Shooter is a classic for me, something I'd even call an early predecessor to a lot of modern survivor-style games. By today's standards it's definitely simple and not very deep, but that doesn't really take away from its charm. The gameplay is straightforward: you run around, shoot hordes of enemies, upgrade your gear, and try not to get overwhelmed. And honestly, it still feels satisfying. The graphics hold...
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Alien Shooter: Revisited scores 15/100 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/33110/alien-shooter-revisitedThe 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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