Alien Swarm: Gameplay, Platforms and Key Facts

Alien Swarm (2010) is a shooter video game developed by Valve, available on PC. It holds an aggregated critic and player score of 65/100 on IGDB.

What is Alien Swarm about?

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

Key details

Alien Swarm was released in 2010 and supports single player, multiplayer, co-operative. Platforms: PC. Developer: Valve.

Should you play Alien Swarm?

Reviews are mixed, but Alien Swarm retains a dedicated player base among shooter fans.