Natural Selection 2
Natural Selection 2 pits alien against human in an action-packed struggle for survival. Wield devastating weaponry as a Frontiersman marine, or become the xenomorph as a deadly Kharaa lifeform.
Strategy Meets Shooter
Natural Selection 2 is a First Person Shooter and Real Time Stategy game rolled into one! Each team, alien and human, has a Commander. The Commander looks down on the battlefield and issues orders, places structures, collects resources, researches technology, and deploys abilities.
Here are some gameplay examples: A human Commander could drop health packs and ammunition to a trapped marine squad, and deploy sentry guns to help them defend their position. Or an alien Commander could grow a new Hive to spread infestation throughout newly captured territory, allowing more alien eggs to spawn…
Two Unique Sides
Aliens players choose to evolve into one of five lifeforms: The fast, fearsome Skulk can run on walls and deliver massive damage with its jaws. Lerks fly and deploy gasses to support their teammates in battle. Gorges heal other lifeforms and build tunnels, hydra turrets, walls, and other tactical structures. Fades blink in and out of battle, picking off marines with giant scythes. Finally, the giant Onos is so massive and so tough, that even entire marine squads can’t take it down.
Marines wield rifles, shotguns, grenade launchers, pistols, and other weapons. Cluster grenades can clear ventilation shafts of sneaky Skulks, flamethrowers make short work of alien structures and infestation, and boosts dropped by the Commander increase combat effectiveness.
When attacking on foot doesn’t cut it, marines can construct hulking Exosuits wielding miniguns and railguns, and equip jetpacks for high speed assaults on alien Hives.
Long Term Development
Natural Selection 2 receives constant updates. This year, 2019, Unknown Worlds continues to develop new features, content, and improvements.
Mod Tools Come Standard
Natural Selection 2 comes with all the tools we used to make the game. All game code is open source. That means you can create, and play, an endless variety of mods. Publish, share, and download mods from the Steam Workshop, and automatically download mods when you join modded games.
Digital Deluxe Edition
Digital Deluxe Edition includes:
- Official Soundtrack – 1 hour of tribal, industrial music composed by David John and Simon Chylinski
- Digital Art Book – 40+ pages of art by Cory Strader, including environments, creatures, weapons and more
- Exclusive in-game marine model – Exclusive in-game marine model – A new marine model with custom visor and armor plating
- Exclusive Wallpapers and Avatars – Unique views of the NS2 universe by Amanda Diaz
Steam User 79
Over a decade after its release, you still can't get anything quite like Natural Selection 2 anywhere else. But for everything original about it, its biggest problem is far from unique.
Natural selection is a cult classic. And like most classics, much of the playerbase has already evaporated and moved on to other things, leaving only the cult. They boil down to only the most elite, die-hard, cut-throat players, concentrated into about 3 servers. Actual natural selection at play, if you will.
Now don't get me wrong: assuming you get people to play with, many of them will be plenty accommodating and willing to give you helpful tips. It's just that, in my experience, even then you can't really shake the feeling that they're pretty tired of explaining this stuff and that they wish they were playing with someone who actually knows what they're doing. Their good will slowly eroding as they turn into players... less friendly to newcomers.
Playing NS2 with the other people who still do is a *task*. I recommend it only to you if you are as patient and open to your fellow player as the veterans will have to be with you. To play a game that has calcified as much as this one is honestly, actually stressful. If you see getting past that as the big ask it frankly is, I'm afraid that the amazing game waiting at the end of getting the hang of things is not for you.
Steam User 49
I just wish they revive this game. One of a kind. I love it
Steam User 46
10/10
After 20 Years of this game, on the last 3 active servers. They still shout each other why the phasegate is not build.
Do you remember the good old times of 2004?
Steam User 79
Kinda wish the game went free to play.
Edit: Who the fat 40 year old virgin that gave me the clown award? Wouldn't you want more peeps to play this game? Lol
Steam User 33
Good game, not too many players. Natural selection 3 would be nice.
Steam User 25
Pretty cool ban simulator (Penalties from matchmaking) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Accidently closing the game = ban
Steam crashes and closes game = ban
Match ending while steam have problems = ban
Leaving lobby when 11/12 but someone joins before i leave so it full = ban
And alot more! But this is only if you play matchmaking, community dont have any problems.
A mixture of FPS+RTS where you either play marines or aliens.
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Steam User 20
11 years ago it was very cool to play this game, espacially when your commander know how to play.