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1987 Classic

A 1987 arcade shooter where you blast through alien-infested space stations from a top-down view, rescuing hostages before a countdown runs out. You pick up stronger weapons along the way and face large boss aliens.

What defines Alien Syndrome:

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Action-packed real-time combat
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

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Alien Breed

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1991 PlayStation

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Action-packed real-time combat

A classic top-down shooter where you fight through an alien-infested space station, juggling scarce ammo, health and mission objectives. Its tense sci-fi horror mood is clearly inspired by the Alien films.

Zero Tolerance

Sci-fi setting

An early first-person shooter in which you clear an alien-infested space station room by room. You pick from a team of five characters with different strengths, and a fallen character is lost for good.

Air Buster

Sci-fi setting

A classic arcade side-scrolling shoot-'em-up in the vein of R-Type and Gradius, blasting through sci-fi stages with power-ups. Its standout feature is simultaneous two-player play.

Abuse

Sci-fi setting

A 1996 side-scrolling shooter where you move with the keyboard and aim freely with the mouse. You battle swarms of mutants and solve simple switch puzzles across dark sci-fi levels.

Aliens versus Predator

Sci-fi setting

A classic first-person shooter with three separate campaigns as Marine, Predator or Alien. Each species has its own abilities and weapons, giving a very different feel from tense horror to stalking prey.

Super Contra

Sci-fi setting

Konami's arcade run-and-gun where you fight an alien invasion solo or with a friend. Alongside classic side-scrolling stages there are overhead levels, all with typical punishing arcade difficulty.

Smash T.V.

Sci-fi setting

An arcade twin-stick shooter set in a dystopian game show: you fight endless waves of enemies in tight arenas, grab weapons and bonuses, and aim to defeat the host at the end. Frantic, chaotic and gleefully over the top.

Killzone: Liberation

Sci-fi setting

An isometric top-down shooter on PSP set in the Killzone universe, where you fight through the ISA–Helghast war in intense firefights, with co-op and competitive multiplayer options.

Xevious

Sci-fi setting

A 1982 arcade classic in which you pilot the Solvalou fighter through vertically scrolling waves of alien enemies, shooting air targets and bombing ground ones at once. It was a pioneering title for the shoot-'em-up genre.

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