Summer Games Fest 2022: 20 Huge Video Game Announcements You Need To Know

19. Aliens: Dark Descent Is A New Aliens-Themed RTS

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Developer Tindalos Interactive (Battlefleet: Gothic Armada) is currently hard at work on a new Aliens game, and though the glossy cinematic trailer first appeared to suggest it might be the FPS everybody wanted Aliens: Colonial Marines to be, the end of the trailer confirmed that Aliens: Dark Descent is in fact a squad-based RTS.

Players will control a squad of Marines stranded on the moon Lethe, who are forced to contend with a Xenomorph infestation across "a persistent world where your actions impact levels forever."

Considering that the game reportedly features permadeath, the XCOM comparisons really speak for themselves.

Aliens: Dark Descent hits PC, and PlayStation and Xbox consoles sometime next year.

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