When They Arrived Reviews
Alan went hunting in his grandfather's country house. There was an invasion of the aliens. Cities are destroyed. You need to use survival skills and ingenuity to survive and save the planet. Build, explode, explore the world, develop your skills, try all ways to stop the aliens invasion."What would I do after the alien invasion?
App ID | 843860 |
App Type | GAME |
Developers | Second Reality |
Publishers | Second Reality |
Categories | Single-player |
Genres | Indie, Action, Simulation, Adventure |
Release Date | 7 Jan, 2019 |
Platforms | Windows |
Supported Languages | Spanish - Spain, English, Russian |

129 Total Reviews
46 Positive Reviews
83 Negative Reviews
Mostly Negative Score
When They Arrived has garnered a total of 129 reviews, with 46 positive reviews and 83 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Mostly Negative’ overall score.
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Recent Steam Reviews
This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback
Playtime:
30 minutes
Tons of localization issues.
There also isn't a whole lot of content.
The game says to hunt a deer but I walked for a long time and saw exactly zero non-bird animals.
UI is extremely clunky.
Sounds weirdly come in and out and there are repeating voices in the background of the ambient tracks. Why?
This might get better, but right now, it is a mess.
https://youtu.be/4TvfG_XchYY
👍 : 14 |
😃 : 1
Negative
Playtime:
27 minutes
Sleeping for one hour is actually coma-mode.
If you get more items than your inventory allows you start destroying all items you touch.
Skinning deer is actually coma-mode.
Dog stuck on door, it's been two days, dog status unknown.
👍 : 6 |
😃 : 8
Negative
Playtime:
15 minutes
There's a lot of things about the game that are easy fixes that would turn it into something I think a lot of different people could be interested in. I would love to be able to help the devs on just some tips and advice of my opinion on things that need some adjusting. For starters, changing some of the sounds, like when you sleep and the ticking noise in the regular audio. I feel like you should be able to open cabinets and the fridge, but that can come in a later update. What I think really needs to happen is to work on the game crashing when you load in, I've fell through the floor of hte world numerous times. And then you go to sleep, the game most times gets stuck on the "sleeping..." screen. I really think this game could go further, much more so, it just needs some work and I wish I could do more on it.
👍 : 4 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
25 minutes
One of the most realistic experiences about alien invasion I have ever experienced. This game kept me engaged and enthralled for nearly half my life. The days of building a relationship with my dog are event I will never forget. The day they took my grandpappy will forever be scarred into my memory, and this game helps me heal by reliving that same experience.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
46 minutes
The game is really buggy. I started the game multiple times, due to falling trough the floor, or the ui completly disapearing. At one point, I just wasn't controlled by gravity any more, and Items I had collected dissapeared, if there were not enought space in the inventory. Also the dialogue just kept repeating the couple first lines, when re started the game, even when I wasnät in the first cabin. So I am not exxagerating, when I say, that the game has a lot of issues. Nothing really happened in the game while I was playing it. I didn't see any aliens, or anything dangerous looking. The game looks nice, and there are a interesting places you can check, but nothing really happened in any of those places...
👍 : 3 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
69 minutes
Don't bother wasting your money or hard drive space. This game came out in 2018 but Halo Combat Evolved gives it a run for it's money. It is such a lose game with no script on what you should actually do. Not to mention the bugs. this game is a huge cash grab and a waste of time. However, if you bought the game let me help you out by telling you to press L and get it all looked at cause that's about as good as it gets.
👍 : 2 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
39 minutes
This game is not finished. Framerate goes from 79fps down to 3-5fps about every 5 seconds. the content may be offically complete but there is more work needed on this game.
👍 : 14 |
😃 : 1
Negative
Playtime:
15 minutes
I wanted to like this game, despite the negative reviews it has received. I started to play the game 3 times now. The first time I put all the petrol in the 4wd, leaving nothing for the generator, and I couldn't find anything else for filling the generator. The second time I restarted the game, filled up the generated and saved the game. When I later continued the game everything was white (like being in fog).
I do not want to restart again only to find out later I've ran into another bug: there are plenty of other games that do work.
Bye bye game!
👍 : 4 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
53 minutes
This is trash. Most buggiest, amateur game I have ever played on Steam. The devs making a remastered from THIS buggy, unfinished trash. Fix your garbage first, polish it then start remastering it, please.
👍 : 11 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
12 minutes
Literally start the game up, got into a quadbike, got off it and game crashes.
Relaunches Game, sees dog and throws ball for dog.
Game crashes..
Was not fun...
👍 : 23 |
😃 : 8
Negative