Alien Removal Division
Join our Discord
This game was made as a university project and is no longer in development as most of the devs have graduated! However, you can still join the Discord and chat with other players and the devs!
About the GameAlien Removal Division is a fast-paced, action-packed first-person shooter, set in a military research facility during the 1950s. The base has been overrun by aliens and you find yourself as the only survivor at the center of the invasion. Your mission will be challenging, but you’ll have an array of weapons and movement abilities to help you deal with the infestation.
Use your parkour skillset to wall-run, double jump, and dash while making your way through the infested military research facility. Improve your skills by combining the moveset with precision shooting in a specifically crafted Time Trial section to showcase your true mastery!
Engage in gory combat and discover the different ways to destroy your enemies. Use your movement skills to stay agile against the aliens as you fight back using an arsenal of high-powered weapons with devastating alternative fire modes, arming you to deal with the threats to come.
Fight against hordes of aliens as you make your way through the facility. You will encounter different types of enemies that vary from explosive slug-like creatures to highly mobile predators, each with their own unique behavior and fighting tactics.
Game Discussion
Steam User 1
A.R.D. is basically a student-made clone of legendary FPS games:
Gameplay and movement = Doom.
The industrial setting and robotic voice-over = Portal/Half-Life.
Slow-motion cutscenes to introduce enemies = Borderlands.
Even though it just borrows mechanics from other games, at its core it's a fun, short experience, so it's not that big of a deal.
Fun aside, the main negative I have is the game's technical aspects.
If you play for a long time (around half an hour or more) the performance starts to degrade. I get a stable 144 FPS when I start the game, but as I progress, the framerate plummets to really low numbers like 50 FPS. This was especially noticeable during my endless attempts at the Bonewald speedrun achievement. I had to restart the game every once in a while, and the difference in performance was extremely noticeable.
Why does this happen? Possibly a memory leak issue?
Anyway, the technical problems don't end there. Every time I failed during the final boss fight and wanted to retry, there was always some kind of game-breaking bug. Once, the boss didn’t spawn at all, so I had to replay the entire game. Another time, the boss did spawn, but it got stuck inside its shield and no enemies appeared - so the game broke again and I had to start over.
6.5/10 – Apart from the technical issues, it’s a good game that clearly takes inspiration from popular franchises, but does it in a way that still feels somewhat original, even though it's a very short experience.
I really recommend it to achievement hunters. Pretty much all achievements are very easy, except for the Bonewald speedrun achievement (Alien Remover), which took me about 5 hours of mastering the course to finally get.
Steam User 1
Bravo! A wonderful university project! The design, sound, content, and flow are very successful. I even liked the small parkour mechanics integrated with the action FPS, congratulations!
---
Bravo! Harika bir üniversite projesi! Dizayn, ses, içerik ve akıcılık gayet başarılı. Hatta action fps ile bütünleştirilen küçük parkur mekaniklerini de beğendim, tebrik ederim!
Steam User 1
Another decent game giving Doom-like vibes from Breda university students. Fun time killer. Recommended!
Steam User 0
I love this game its a quick one to two hour game if you want all the badges
i love the doom like aspect of it so overall at least a 10/10
Steam User 0
Solid short experience. Nothing special but its free so try it out!
Steam User 0
This game was a super fun short game, felt kinda like Doom, definitely give this game a god, you won't be disappointed
Steam User 0
Its very short, gameplay is enjoyable, but its very poorly optimised. As other reviewers mentioned its a slight mix of doom and titanfall.
Its best enjoyed when you keep in mind that this is a university project.
(fun fact: the first i played it i couldnt finish it because it broke my pc's power supply but im guessing it was more of personal issue and not the game's)