Aliens: Dark Descent
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Not to be confused with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
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| 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 |
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| 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
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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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Mitigate stutter
| Run game in DX11 |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\ASF\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\ |
| 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 | ||||
| Simplified Chinese | ||||
| Traditional Chinese | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Italian | ||||
| Japanese | ||||
| Korean | ||||
| Polish | ||||
| Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
| Russian | ||||
| Latin American Spanish |
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.