Aliens: Dark Descent
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Not to be confused with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Developers | |
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Tindalos Interactive | |
Publishers | |
Focus Entertainment | |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 4 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | June 20, 2023 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Tactical shooter |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Sci-fi, Space |
Series | Alien |
Alien | |
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Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure | 1995 |
Alien Trilogy | 1996 |
Aliens Online | 1998 |
Aliens versus Predator (series) | |
Aliens: Colonial Marines | 2013 |
Alien: Isolation | 2014 |
Aliens: Fireteam Elite | 2021 |
Aliens: Dark Descent | 2023 |
Aliens: Dark Descent is a singleplayer bird's-eye view tactical shooter game in the Alien series.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Publisher website | ||||
Epic Games Store | ||||
Steam |
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Lethe Recon Pack |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Manually remove/rename the intro videos |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1150440/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\ASF\Saved\SaveGames\*.sav |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1150440/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | Low FoV due to Vert- scaling. See Ultra-widescreen | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | fullscreen is borderless windowed mode | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | FPS capped at 132 | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Ray tracing (RT) | |||
Color blind mode |
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.
Ultra-widescreen
Fix Vert- scaling |
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[/Script/Engine.LocalPlayer] AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | PhysX | |
Audio | XAudio2 |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10 | 10, 11 |
Processor (CPU) | AMD FX-6300 Intel Core i3-6100 |
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Intel Core i7-9700K |
System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | 16 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 60 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | AMD Radeon R9 380 Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 3 GB of VRAM | AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1150440/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1150440) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.