Action Alien Reviews

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"They destroyed my bar, but I am still here! Hell yeah!"-Action Alien is a cancerously playable game. We play as some guy that looks like John Rambo's long distance cousin, call him Bob Stalingrad, whatever. This man will go on a genocidal alien rampage just to retrieve his car keys, defending every gas station known to man like the local crackhead at 3 am. We have two gamemodes to choose from-story mode, and survival. Now the story mode is pretty weird as it doesn't have any "story", surival mode on the other hand is pretty...okay-ish? as you fight off endless waves of aliens on two maps that are pretty bland. The best level out of all is the Petrol station map, compared to the other ones, it has the most thought-out design, and an actually fun weapon progression that shifts in-between the alien waves you sweep. The other story maps are pretty bad, the wasteland level for example is a more scuffed version of the petrol station, every weapon has been thrown into random corners of the map and your objective is to run around and collect supplies one by one making the game feel like a chore. The Tropical hotel map is quite the same, although it's way more open and colorful its still just a chore of walking around, collecting gas and food for your escape, taking down every alien in your wake. The gunplay is quite lacking, it is satisfying at times but a lot of the weapons suffer from being too quiet....like, how the hell is the pistol louder than the m16?! (MARK IT ZERO! reference!?). The game has a form of character and weapon customization-by killing aliens you score points, which you can spend on upgrading your stats or your guns. You can spend the points on golden camos for the guns. I found the HUD in action alien to be quite clean, and I love the summary screen after finishing every map, it even plays a damn good tune! But that's where the good things about it end, Action Alien has a horrid optimization probably one of the worst i've seen in a game. I Literally had to rebuild my PC into an IED for it to somehow run EVEN after that, i barely had 50 FPS, AND THE FACT NOT EVEN MY RTX 4060 COULD SAVE ME IS DIABOLICAL. Now a very key part of the game are the aliens, aren't they? i mean the "alien" is in the damn title of the game, and the alien design is truly UGLY not ugly in a good way, it's just straight-up terrible. And i have no idea how you mess up an alien design for a game. Because with the factor of the unknown you have a big window for creativity....but the enemies are just weird mutated lizards. Matter of fact i doubt these are aliens-they're just the local wildlife horribly mutated by the optimization of the habitat they live in, hungry for blood because of the high gas prices. Now, what these inbred crayon-colored reptiles don't make up in looks or brains they make up in NUMBERS, because you will be mowing down hundreds of them during a single level. The gameplay loop in Action Alien is pretty boring, even though it has a tiny form of character customization with the upgrades.It does not reward the player for in-game exploration or for simply unlocking every upgrade which makes the whole game just less memorable. There's no niche humor, no secrets and no depth in the alien design. Compare it to serious Sam or something, Action alien is just a killsim that you can sink a few hours into, and while it is hilarious at times its because of the insane bugs you will encounter.But I also won't hate on the developer, people pick on this game too hard. No, it's not the WORST game on steam, nor it's a "so bad its good" kinda game...it's just so bad it's playable and I simply can't recommend it as a game in general 2.5/10.