The latest entry in the Amnesia series, The Bunker Dark And Darker Gold, launches in just a few days, and it's shaping up to be something special. PCG staff writer Morgan Park praised The Bunker's open-ended gameplay in an earlier preview, finding it to be "inching toward the player agency and emergent gameplay of a full-blown immersive sim." 

Aliens: Dark Descent looks surprisingly decent in this first gameplay footage

How many Aliens licensed games have there been at this point? Enough for us to collectively forget that Aliens: Dark Descent was in development, certainly. Or at least we had until the first gameplay footage arrived this morning via IGN, along with a June 30 release date, which we watched and murmured a collective "that looks quite decent, actually". 

Aliens: Dark Descent, which I feel duty bound to note is absolutely no relation of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, is billed as a real-time squad-based tactical action game. It's being developed by Paris-based Tindalos Interactive which previously worked on a couple of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada games. 

Dark Descent sees players taking control of and levelling up a squad of Colonial Marines as they're… Well, you've seen the movies. It's not going to go well! The game takes place on a moon called Lethe, which the Steam listing actually calls a planet, but hey I'm not the lore guy. In either case, the marines have crash landed from the USS Otago and in a terrible but also frankly inevitable twist of fate the joint is in the midst of being overrun by the iconic/phallic xenos. 

Visually it looks clean and crispy—frosty, even—with the environments being a mix of the expected Weyland-Yutani corpo architecture and Giger's creeping biomechanical gloop. There's some neon signage splashed around, including a karaoke bar, suggesting Lethe was a relatively inhabited locale rather than a completely forgotten outpost buy Dark And Darker Gold Coins.