Alien Swarm
BANGER · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
A BANGER, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 21,658
- Critics
- 77 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Shooter
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.5h
- To 100%
- 20.9h 6.0x the story
- Finish
- 29% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 66
Players and genre
- Online
- 18 now
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
56% start to 29% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, SAS: Zombie Assault 4 (free, scores 61) and Counter-Strike Nexon (scores 17) both come in lower.
It is still busy. 18 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 5, 02:46 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.
More about Alien Swarm
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18.
The main story runs 3.5 hours. Doing everything runs 21, 6.0 times as long.
Buy now or wait
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
About the game
Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 2.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Alien Swarm scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/630/alien-swarmReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 4. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.