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Alien Breed 3: Descent
Developer Team17 Digital Ltd
Alien Breed 3: Descent is the sequel to Alien Breed 2: Assault and is the third installment of the episodic remake of the Alien Breed series. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
185 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Lemmy, Bluesky) · newest Sep 17, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
65
Fresh
118 positive · 64 negative
95% range 58–71%
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| Steam reviews | 118 | 64 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
3 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
465 of 626 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 185 · most liked firstI just can't give this a recommend. A solid game but ruined by the same tedium of the first two. The back and forth to flip this or that switch and the mediocre combat make me a sad panda. Another time I wish there was a middle of the road vote button but since there is not, the tedious game play makes me give this a thumbs down.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alien Breed 3 aka shaky cam: the game. Everything is shaking in this game. The screen is shaking after every explosion that occurs every 5s, the menu is shaking, the UI is shaking and even the map is shaking. I would play it if it weren't for these irritating effects but I can't recommend Alien Breed 3 in this state.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun game but I digress on one point... they replaced the voice actor from the 1st game in the series. Grrr... Still, yet, it is doable. Graphics are nice and have held up for this type of game. Sound and music are nice as well. I have not completed the game yet but am stuck in some of the more maze like patterns. It is just a matter of time. Recommended!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Consider this a review of the entire trilogy, the only noticeable differences between the three games are a couple of weapons and a different coloured interface that matches the ambient lighting. There's some good here, but these games are full of poor design decisions and awkward controls that aren't bad enough to make them unplayable but will frustrate you constantly. The production values are average for the era, and the games look fine at first glance, but the animation quality does not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Alien Breed Trilogy is a less than decent twin stick shooter with a sufficiently mysterious narrative that actually kept me going to the end (of all three). However, every time I find myself enjoying the game, its short comings slap me to my senses and prevent me from ever getting immersed. This has been an exercise in identifying poor user experience and player discomfort. I cannot recommend this game when there are twin-stick shooters out there, like Shadowgrounds, that I've enjoyed with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very generic gameplay. As previously mentioned, the trilogy would've made more sense as one complete game versus three games that are 4 hours long each. Combat leaves a lot to be desired. The entire trilogy can be summed up as a re-route simulator. Any time you attempt to loot you are bombarded by enemies that stop this process. The end "boss" is recycled and after three games, the ending doesn't serve any justice. Severely underwhelming.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is my second favourite version of Alien Breed, second to the first game in the series. I've spent a lot of time playing this game and all the games in the series. If you are new to the series I would suggest you start with the first game, however, the gameplay IS essentially the same in every version. Pros: -Same old Alien Breed gameplay. If you like it, you will like this version. -New and visually impressive maps and bosses, some new guns. -Good sound effects, graphics, music, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If having a good time was a disease, this game is the cure
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just like the previous two, I attempted to reinstall and verify my files but still didn't work. Oh well. If they ever made a 4th game maybe fourth time is the charm?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →That moment when you were so engrossed with the suspense for a game that came packed as a trilogy and you begin to love the character and settings, and then , the final level begins. Sad ! There will be no more alien breed. A perfect ending for alien breed trilogy saga. Will miss Conrad !
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →System Info OS: Windows10 Pro x64 CPU: [email protected] RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz GPU: RTX 2080 Ti OC HDD: 1TB + 2TB NVMe SSD, 2TB HDD, external 256GB + 2 x 1TB SSD (USB3.1 UASP) HDD: *Game was installed on 2TB NVMe SSD ---{ 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…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is just a reskin of the first one in the series, so I'll just copy paste my review for that one here: I wish there was a "meh" category. The shooting is actually quite fun, but that's the problem. Most of the game isn't shooting, instead it consists of walking back and forth across a very long linear map. In fact the way that they designed the levels is akin to "suicides" if you ever ran those in gym class. "Ok so go to point A. That's great now head back to the start. Now go to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →fun game play, great graphics.. easy controls. its a fun alien game. but OMG.. THE SCREEN IS SHAKING THE ENTIRE TIME. its annoying and gave me a headache. i had to stop playing due to the entire screen shaking the whole time. i get it every now and then.. but its all the f'ing time. its rediculous.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alien Breed 3: Descent (2010) это всё то же самое что было в первых двух частях серии, лишь здесь мы по сути получаем завершающий опыт в победе над вражескими инопланетными жителями; Из стандартного в наличии: порция мини квестов; порция более динамичных эффектов, и очередное противостояние в глобальных масштабах. Из трилогии, определенно, данная часть значительно лучшая: зрелищных моментов больше (со своим аналогом инопланетного Немезиса), путешествие по открытому космосу (подстать Dead…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was interested with the story but then I got bored with level design focused only on backtracking.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"The explosion effect and Laugh.ogg were really expensive, so by God we'll use them!" The worst game in a mediocre trilogy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the final stage of pain when you survive this you will never come back its like a rebirth so you will be happy to play another thing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Team17, the developer best known for the creation of "Worms" and other such classics are the ones responsible for bringing us the subject of my next review, a lesser-known title but a particularly lustrous gem nonetheless. The Alien Breed Trilogy is a series of third-person shooters. Like their more popular distant cousins the FPS, they too automatically come with an 'action' tag by association because that's what we all (myself included) have come to expect from the genre. Though categorized…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →probably the best game in the series (sligtly) but also the shortest. more of the same alien breed style game. buy it if you already played the other two
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alien Breed 3: Descent is the climactic finale of Team17’s modern revival of the classic Alien Breed series, delivering a tightly focused, action-heavy conclusion that leans into spectacle, pressure, and mechanical refinement rather than reinvention. Designed as the third chapter in an episodic trilogy, the game assumes familiarity with its predecessors and escalates their ideas into a relentless descent toward survival or annihilation. From the opening moments, the tone is urgent and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AB 3: descent is the worst of the 3 Alien Breed games. It's like they run out of ideas and inspiration. Interestingly, the shortcomings of the first 2 games are highlighted here, instead of being erased: - the environments are really too dark this time, I understand they had to create such a setting because this time you are placed on the alien ship and there is no artificial light there but still. - too much camera shaking and explosions. - this time the game forces/fixes some camera…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm just going to review all three in this end cap title. They are fun! Aliens-inspired remakes and despite some camera flimflam and bugs in 3 the single player experience is a fun run and gun through all three games. I expected the same gameplay experience from all three. That is what was delivered. They start getting a bit 'cinematic' in the final title which makes for some awkward encounters where your true boss is the camera and far respawn points but that doesn't take away too much…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a slog to get through. Boring as hell, and it's way longer than it's supposed to, like 3 hours longer at least. I liked the first one, the second was a bit boring by the end, but this is just bad from the start. There is always a locked door, a missing key card, an elevator power surge or a flood to drain, everything is designed to waste your time and prolong the gametime. And the character is stuck on every little piece of terrain on the map, that is frustrating af.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Same review as in the case of the AB 2. It's mostly the same thing, so it applies: Although, technically speaking it's almost the same as the 1st game, this one—especially towards the end—tends to be more of a frustration-fest than an actual challenge. During the first half, it's okay to save up ammo through 'tactical back-paddling while shooting the pistol'; it adds to the tension and thus it enriches the gameplay, sorta'. But later on, enemies start to pop up from everywhere, figuratively…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →you could use bullet points: - now using ULWGL-protonfixes - can now call the winetricks gui using util.protontricks(‘gui’) - winetricks now performs an internet check before attempting any downloads - fixed long standing issue with protontricks not being able to install dotnet4* using anything newer than proton 5. works now and no longer requires proton 5. - fixed dll overwrites in winetricks, no longer need to maintain a massive list of specific overwriteable dlls in proton - protonfixes…
unlabelledView post →NO Local CO-OP in all 3 games, its only on their DEMO. go play the demo instead XD
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like the second game, the pistol, assault rifle, shotgun, and flamethrower return, but the last two weapons change again. This time you get a gun that shoots an electric bolt and a gun called "Project X" that shoots what I can only describe as a sphere of energy that explodes on contact with a powerful AoE shockwave. There's a lot to be said for the philosophy of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," but there's also the fact that you can have too much of a good thing. Really, this should have…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alien Breed 3: Descent offers a fitting conclusion to a captivating series. The game masterfully blends narrow corridors, limited ammunition, and hordes of relentless aliens, creating a thrilling and immersive experience. The tight, claustrophobic environments kept me on edge, while the constant threat of alien attacks demanded strategic thinking and precise resource management. The tension and adrenaline were palpable, making each encounter a heart-pounding ordeal. The sense of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nothing special, just like the two before it. Good enough to kill some time though.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have never wanted to have a game to end so badly. ♥♥♥♥ this game. Overall I can't recommend the third because of the same bland gameplay, contains assets, and sections of levels from the second game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The final game of the trilogy, blasted through it during a week, they are good games overall, the story is a standard scifi history but its well done and I liked the comic styled cutscenes. The game is good, its for those that enjoy topview shooters, witht he ocasional secret area with bonus guns. Each game had a couple of unique weapons, some more useful than others. I will say one thing, you will probably get tired of the atmosphere pretty quickly, there is almost no scenery change, its…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first Alien Breed was a fun but very limited twin stick top down shooter. Repetitive, overstretched and lacking in variety. Each successive game has remedied these faults and aimed for a bigger, grander experience. Part two was great, Part 3 is even better. I'm going to assume that if you're looking for a review of 3 that you're familiar with the others, as each parts story directly continues on from the previous game. Its not a trilogy as such, but one story broken into three acts. If…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished alien breed impact and alien breed 2.. And ohhh boy, im really digging the series.. Game does get repetitive but, if you love top down shooters with intense action and your heart pounding that you dont run out of bullets this is the game for you. This is pretty much the last series to the alien breed.. pro Graphics are same as 1 and 2 Top down shooter upgradable weapons and customisation Gameplay addictive and solid sound effects survivor mode Co-op Easy Achievements cons: gameplay…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i guess developers using unreal engine just love blur. the postprocessing is an insult to imagequality. besides this game just crashes at a certain point and cant be completed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a way to wrap up a massively enjoyable trilogy reboot series! Team17 really brought the story telling to another level in the final installment, got me fully invested and truly gripped my full attention. To be fair, there are certainly a few spots of jank specifically in Descent with some awkwardly executed Resident Evil style camera sections, but nothing egregious enough to take away from the overall solid gameplay. I'm glad I finally managed to finish this series (albeit about 15…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are two ways of doing doing bullet points (unordered lists) in markdown: ```markdown - now using ULWGL-protonfixes - can now call the winetricks gui using `util.protontricks(‘gui’)` - winetricks now performs an internet check before attempting any downloads […] * protonfixes added for Alien Breed: Impact * protonfixes added for Alien Breed 2: Assault * protonfixes added for Alien Breed 3: Descent * protonfixes added for Black Desert Online `NOSTEAM=1` option. Launch game like `NOSTEAM=1…
unlabelledView post →Got more explosions than a Michael Bay movie.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →With all the issues of 1 and 2, but with the added insult of crappier guns (not including the old ones so little choice), and re-used maps. Oh but they got a bit of water in.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →7/10 So Long, Conrad The game that marked the end of the Alien Breed story. The final phase was quite hard, but worth the effort, in my opinion - I thought I would never be able to complete it. In the end, this trilogy was good and I enjoyed it a lot. Again, the game remains largely the same in terms of visuals and gameplay. So long, Conrad. Adeus, Conrado O jogo que marcou o fim da história de Alien Breed. A fase final foi bastante difícil, mas na minha opinião valeu a pena o esforço -…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So it ends the story of the series, but kinda with an open ending. It seems to be the least polished one in the series. Gameplay wise it is pretty much the same, but you get stuck a lot of times, wich didn't happen in the other games. They changed a few guns and added one really annoying enemy type, that stuns you. First time playthrough took me about 4 hours.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok this is a top down run and gun shooter with Aliens, theres 3 games in the series which all came out in the same year. Now lets get on with the review, first ill do the Pros and Cons. Pros. -Lots of Aliens to kill. -Fun weapons to use like "Project X" which is pretty much the BFG from Doom. -Great controls no matter if youre using M/KB or Controller. -Good designs on the characters, enviroment and effects. Cons. -Lame story if you wanna call it a story.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →6.5/10 I'm glad I played through the Alien Breed trilogy, but it's certainly a journey best enjoyed in doses. I would typically only play one level per day, unless it was Saturday and I had the day off of work. However, even then, I might squeeze in two levels a few hours apart. I played a couple of other games in between finishing the first and second "episodes" in the trilogy. The third installment includes much of what made the previous games enjoyable. On the highest difficulty, the game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Descent concludes the Alien Breed trilogy with more of the same levels, aliens, and for the most part weapons. As in the previous episodes, the assault rifle, shotgun, and flamethrower make up the bulk of the arsenal, with the more exotic weapons being all but useless. Most aliens are too fast and most environments too cluttered, and weapons like the rocket launcher or the BFG-clone that replaces it in the third chapter, do more harm than good. Descend picks up immediately after the conclusion…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →they didnt fixed the crappy camera angles, the hud is ruined with that orange color that blend with the fire and explosion and the overuse of FX and explosions it feels like michael bay made this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game get the whole trilogy ONLY in a 99% discount deal
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →same as previous...playable...so i vote yes.... still too little alien type.... powerful weapon seems useless can can hurt your character. one very annoy thing almost push me over the border to vote for no.... Its the annoying "Evil laugh". Repeat evil laugh every 5 min or so troughout the whole game... very annoying... driving me nut....
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great Sci-fi arcade-shooter which you can play single or in co-op mode. After a crash your ship is merged with another with deadly consequences part 3! It is a remastered version with new weapons + updated enemies. Great game which is very fun to play on hardest difficulty. There are 5 episodes which each take about 40min to 1hour to beat. The weapons are fun, the enemies scared the hell out of me sometimes. The biggest rage factor for me was the back spawning. Where when you past and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Eeeeeh. Works well with a pad. But I would rather be playing Alien Shooter
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yeah, I've played less of this than probably any of the three games. See my review of the first game. All of them are the same. This is an average as hell top down shooter. It's extremely average in every way. You could also call it "follow the waypoints" simulator. I also just noticed, all these games released the same year... They pumped out all three of these games as soon as they could. Steer clear.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an excellent way to waste a few hours. I was a big fan of the original game and so when this new and updated version came out I was pretty excited. From what I can remember of the 90's game, this seems to be pretty faithful to the original. Pick up a gun, kill aliens. Admittedly some of the mission tasks can be pretty repetitive, and the story.. exists... but thats not what this game is about. With the unreal engine behind it I sometimes felt that this is what XCOM would be if it was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not fun. And not even worth saying more about it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have finished this game some years ago and this is one of the saddest games that I have ever played. The gameplay is liimited, the story is rather irrelevant, the weapons are ♥♥♥♥ and playing with anyone is worse than having cancer. I would not force my enemies (and I have none) to play this game either alone or with a friend. Why? Quite simple, the weapons are ♥♥♥♥ and the checkpoints are a nightmare. I am unsure why anyone would develop such a ♥♥♥♥ game just to release something. Just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is not bad, quite short, but that's good because it gets repetitive quickly. The story is not bad. The explosions could have been smaller and the controls more stable. For me, the big minus is the upgrade system. Too small and too expensive. There are only three upgrades for the hero, for each weapon there are also three, but you can only use one and most always for more power. And nothing is saved if you start a free game. The prologue is a separate level from the campaign and is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →More of the same shooty shooty goodness of the first two games. Not for everyone, but if you want a short-ish action top-down shooter then this fits the bill.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this is amazing! yeah!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am very disappointed to find out this game has absolutely nothing to do with alien breeding. Normally when you see the number 3 after the titles name you would think its safe to assume this means there will be 3 times as much alien breeding and the alien breeding will be 3 times better then what could be reasonably expected from alien breeding 1. Alas this was not the case, now I can see the marketing of the game is cleverly designed with false advertising to cynically lure in gentlemen of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All three of the game's series are a solid isometric/third person twin stick shooter. Although made in 2010, they still feel great to play, the handling are smooth and pretty precise. If you can ignore the bad UI+map background (pretty hard to see the map with background so bright, especially the 3rd of the series), the constant back and forth task, the many explosions and screen shake that make Michael Bay ashamed, outdated graphic, cheesy story/dialogue (which plague old games title), you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →★★☆☆☆ Okay! Action Alien Breed 3: Descent is the last in the trilogy chronicling the saga of the Conrad, the engineer on the unlucky space ship Leopold that crashed into the even more unfortunate (and obligatorily derelict) space station. Immediately following the events of the previous game, Conrad must continue to strive against murderous, insectile aliens as well as a mocking, homicidal AI. Good looking visuals, but such an empty game. Spending more time looking for something to shoot…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A childhood favorite! I want more
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The best of the 3 entries, the devs learned how to use all of its assets efficiently, designing better maps and making better use of the camera. It is also free of game breaking bugs (looking at you Alien Breed 2!!). It introduces a new enemy type (excluding bosses) and adds 2 weapons. But it's one of those that if you've played any of the entries, it doesn't justify or adds anything to play another. It's just more of the same. Being the last of the trilogy, well, I was expecting some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hope you'd like another round of the same explody, camera-shakey, waypoints only lead to locked doors and cutscenes, "oops, no, go that way now", spinning camera, key gathering chores, carry a gun while walking simulator because this time it's Orange Flavored!™
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