Alien Shooter: Revisited
Skip · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews▼
- 65% of 882
- Genre rank
- Top 79% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.1h
- To 100%
- 2.4h 1.1x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 49 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 December 2021
- Sale every
- 80d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 72% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 19% of its genre
Price and player charts
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 28, 22:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 49 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 72 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 Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend ($14.99, scores 2).
More about Alien Shooter: Revisited
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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.24 (35% off). Predictions like this were right 91% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- 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
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.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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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About the game
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!
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Alien Shooter: Revisited scores 15/100 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/33110/alien-shooter-revisitedReviews 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 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.