Attack of the Earthlings
Fair · Strategy · 2018
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8h 12.7h to 100%
- Value
- $1.87/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 452 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Take on Galactoil, a comically dysfunctional intergalactic energy corporation, and its larger-than-life employees in a tactical-stealth game that fuses satisfying strategic gameplay and dark comedy in a quirky single-player story.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 560 Ti (1GB) / Radeon HD 6970 (2GB), 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 63 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 14 percent on value. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SteamWorld Heist ($14.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Reigns: Game of Thrones ($3.99, scores 51).
More about Attack of the Earthlings
Critics scored it 71. Players sit 12 points higher at 83 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
87% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Attack of the Earthlings is your standard, unserious "strategy" game of the late 2010s, where skill trees were as tall and complex as a branch, no enemy logic other than to either attack the nearest target or the last target that damaged it, and arbitrary gameplay mechanics like the grunts having little area of vision without the matriarch alien. It isn't so much strategy as it is simply a game of reloading saves...
1 more review, not recommended
I was enjoying this game, in spite of its kind of low budget, jank feel, until I got to the third level, which required having just one, helpless unit sneak around without getting caught. It was awful. Just annoying and not fun at all. After trying to power through for somewhere between 30 and 60 minutes, I decided enough was enough. Probably won't play the game any more.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Attack of the Earthlings scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/621930/attack-of-the-earthlingsReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.