Alien Swarm
Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community.
Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet’s surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility.
Along with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK. Alien Swarm adds 3rd person camera, depth of field, improved dynamic shadows and a wide variety of gameplay additions to the Source engine.
- Tactical, 4 player co-op action game with a top-down perspective
- Complete game code and mod tools
- Unlock persistent items by gaining levels
- Over 40 weapons and equipment with countless loadout configurations
- 4 unique classes and 8 unique characters
- Matchmaking, Steam Cloud, Steam Stats
- 64 achievements
- Tile-based map generation tool
- Powered by Source and Steam
Steam User 15
There's like a whole swarm of aliens, I guess you could say there's an Alien Swarm, I mean like, they are completely swarming I'm telling you! My aliens are swarming and I scared.
I only played for the TF2 Hat
Steam User 18
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☑ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Steam User 19
Story of me playing this game
1. starts game to try and get the TF2 hat
2. does offline practice to see how its like
3. doesn't like the bots
4. dies
5. tries a online game
6. gets taught how to play by a nice person
7. likes the game
8. shows to friends
in summary this game is like an infection but in a good way :thumbsup:
Steam User 13
This game is a hidden gem. Aliens have taken over a remote planet. A squad is sent to find survivors from the colony. Unfortunately, the colony has been completely overrun by the swarm, so it must be destroyed.
The campaign contains only 7 levels. Each of them have secret messages to tell the players what had happened. The level designs are great and the game is replayable with random factors to keep it interesting. Most levels have really funny secret exploits that can make the missions much faster. There are 4 classes each with 2 members. The squad doesn't need one of each, you can play with whoever you want, but some levels require a tech marine.
One thing I don't like in this game is that every class has a superior member who is better in pretty much every relevant way than the other one.
I think this is one of the best game made by Valve, even though it's not that popular.
Steam User 6
I played the heck out of this game in the first year of release. Recommend it for sure assuming it's still intact. Countless hours of fun and FO FREE!
Steam User 6
good game but requires a squad and community is too small. not appropriate for solo players.
Steam User 7
definitely a awesome valve game but lacking in content and stuff to do but good thing we have reactive drop that has all the content from the original game plus all new modes and content but still the original game is still fun and i wish more people played it