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Video games about alien invasions

  • Half-Life (series)Half-Life is a series of first-person shooter games from the studio Valve, and its hero never says a word. Gordon Freeman is a scientist at the Black Mesa Research Facility, and the player sees everything through his eyes. The first game…
  • Half-Life 2Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter from Valve Corporation, and it cost 40 million US dollars to make. Development lasted five years. By 2011 it had sold 12 million copies worldwide. In November 2024, twenty years after its release,…
  • Mass EffectMass Effect began in 2003 as a pitch to build a universe on the scale of Star Wars. BioWare wanted to own it entirely.
  • EarthBoundEarthBound is a 1994 role-playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and its American advertising declared, 'This game stinks.' Nintendo meant it as a joke. In Japan the game was called Mother 2, and it was led by Shigesato…
  • Call of Duty: GhostsWithin 24 hours of Call of Duty: Ghosts reaching stores in November 2013, Activision had shipped $1 billion worth of copies to retailers. The publisher still counted the game as a letdown. Ghosts was the tenth major Call of Duty release…
  • Prey (2017 video game)Prey, the 2017 first-person shooter made by Arkane Austin and published by Bethesda Softworks, opens by lying to the player about where they are. You wake up as Morgan Yu in an apartment in 2035, and within minutes you learn the apartment…
  • Half-Life (video game)Half-Life, the 1998 first-person shooter from Valve Corporation, was budgeted on the assumption that it would sell around 180,000 copies in its entire lifetime. That forecast came from Gabe Newell, one of the studio's two founders. Yet the…
  • Nier: AutomataNier: Automata, a 2017 action role-playing game made by PlatinumGames and published by Square Enix, ends with an unusual request. When the story is over, the closing credits turn into a shooting game that the player must fight through.…
  • Space InvadersSpace Invaders sped up as aliens vanished by accident, and its designer kept the quirk.
  • BloodborneIn the game Bloodborne, the miracle cure that heals almost any ailment slowly turns people into beasts.

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