Attack of the Earthlings on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Take on Galactoil, a comically dysfunctional intergalactic energy corporation, and its larger-than-life employees in a tactical-stealth game that fuses satisfying strategic gameplay and dark comedy in a quirky single-player story.

Attack of the Earthlings is a strategy, indie and turn-based strategy game developed by Team Junkfish and published by Junkfish Limited.
Released on February 08th 2018 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 9 languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean and French.

It has received 403 reviews of which 342 were positive and 61 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 12.59€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.62€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Attack of the Earthlings into these genres:

Strategy Indie Turn-Based Strategy Dark Humor Comedy Sci-fi Dark Comedy Singleplayer Aliens Gore Story Rich Turn-Based Tactics Great Soundtrack Villain Protagonist Tactical Turn-Based Stealth

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7 / 10
Processor: Dual-core 2.3 Ghz (i3 or better)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 560 Ti (1GB) / Radeon HD 6970 (2GB)
Storage: 3 GB available space

MacOS

OS: EL CAPITAN
Processor: Dual-core 2.3 Ghz (i3 or better)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 560 Ti (1GB) / Radeon HD 6970 (2GB)
Storage: 3 GB available space

Linux

OS: Mint 17.1 / Ubuntu 14.04
Processor: Dual-core 2.3 Ghz (i3 or better)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 560 Ti (1GB) / Radeon HD 6970 (2GB)
Storage: 3 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Dec. 2024

A fun XCOM-style game where you're leading a totally not Predalien through a corporation's extraterrestrial mining drill/facility that is in no way comparable to Weyland-Yutani, with gut-wrenching team-building in a very literal sense. My only complaint is that it's a bit short but from another perspective it's a solid, sleek package.

Oct. 2024

The short: Very fun and very funny, but not very long. The long: This game is quite interesting. I have always liked playing games from the 'bad guys' perspective, or rather the 'non-human' perspective, for in this game. Because you technically aren't the bad guys. Yes, you do go around killing humans, some of which are kinda innocent, but they came to your planet to mine every resource and kill everything they can get their hands on to begin with. The humans in this are comically evil, and comically dumb. I was actually chuckling at several parts in the game. The writing is simple, but pretty good and decently funny. The story line is decent too. The game play is also rather simple. You only have your starting Queen alien, and from there you make basic drones which can evolve into three different specialist aliens. The more humans you kill, the more biomass you collect, and thus the more aliens you get. You can have an even faster, sneakier drone/assassin, a ranged disruption unit, and a big slow tank creature. Every situation in the game calls for one of these units. Sometimes you can finish a level using only one or two types, other times you need to use them all, and their unlock-able abilities. As you finish each mission you get upgrade points depending on how many humans you eliminated, and how fast you were. I don't really like that in my stealth turn based combat games. Being forced to go quickly, that is. It didn't work for me with XCom 2, and it doesn't really work here. For XCom 2 it literally ruined the game for me, but not here as it is optional. I can see how they would add it in as a factor to maybe get more playtime/more replay value out of the game, but in the end it just had me rushing through levels to try and max out unit level up biomass. I think more levels, possibly larger levels, with more 'puzzles' to solve would have been much more preferable; then maybe an alternate 'speed run mode' unlocking at the end when you beat the game? Oh well, like I said, the game is fun and funny. The voice acting is great. It plays pretty simply and rather well. The super streamlined UI is nice, but it and the overall graphics for the game kind of make it look like something you would end up playing on your phone or a tablet. It has a charm to it, but, a sort of cheap charm? Anywho, I didn't get all that much playtime out of the game. It was fun, but not quite $17 CAD fun. I would recommend it, but only if you get it on a decent sale.

Sept. 2024

This is an entertaining turn-based tactics game, where you play the role of a xenomorph whose planet has been invaded by pesky humans. Killing and eating humans provides biomass that you use to create additional units. The somewhat ghastly premise is balanced by the rather silly villains and humorous scripted events. The game has seven maps, each of which provides a slightly different challenge. It's not a very long game (~9 hours for a careful playthrough that hit all the secondary objectives), and replayability is low unless you go achievement-hunting, but it's worth buying at the right price point.

Aug. 2024

Its kind of sold on being a "Reverse X-Com" but the only part of the game that is like that is the moment to moment turn-based gameplay of each level. There is no base, or squads, or loadouts. You gain points to spend on upgrades between missions and there's a linear sequence of tactical puzzles for you to solve with jokes during and between. Thats it. The writing can be pretty funny, the visuals make it look a bit like a cheap Xbox 360 game and the campaign isn't very long. The UI is a bit lacking and the actual responsiveness of player input can feel a little clunky. The actual gameplay can be pretty fun with setting up ambushes and sneaking around, if a little sluggish. Ideally for a sequel/update they'd let you move more than one unit at a time, speed up unit actions, give you some options during levels to affect later ones and have more unique scenarios than "kill/break this". Its a decent Tactical Puzzle game with a fun theme, and the comedy does work way more than it doesn't, but I wouldn't pay full price for it. Here's hoping someone makes a proper reversed X-Com game in the future, as the concept has legs.

July 2024

It's a quirky and fun game to play. Although a bit on the shorter side and not too tactical, I did thoroughly enjoy playing it and I would recommend it to other players. If a sequel is ever made I could imagine these developers really hitting a home run!

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