Descent on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Prepare To Start Your Descent.Sensory overload in 360° 3-D.Welcome to Descent™ - 27 levels of the most mind-bending, stomach-churning action game ever. Featuring true 3-Dimensional worlds with light source shading, texture mapping, 3-D morphing, directional sound effects and sizzling music, this is technology taken to the limit.

Descent is a classic, 6dof and action game developed by Parallax and published by Interplay Inc..
Released on February 11th 2014 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 455 reviews of which 440 were positive and 15 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Descent into these genres:

Classic 6DOF Action Shooter Old School FPS Space Retro 1990's Sci-fi First-Person Flight Co-op Difficult Singleplayer Adventure Pixel Graphics Nostalgia Multiplayer Great Soundtrack

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows XP, 7, 8
Processor: 1 Gigahertz or faster
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 or better
DirectX: Version 7.0
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 32 MB available space
Sound Card: Sound Blaster compatible
Additional Notes: Please visit Interplay's support site for the optimal settings for Descent 3's setup.

MacOS

OS: OS X 10.6.8 or later
Processor: Intel Core Duo 2GHz+
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 64MB of video memory
Storage: 50 MB available space
Additional Notes: Recommended two-button mouse, or Apple mouse with Secondary Button / Secondary Click enabled.

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 16.04 or later
Processor: 2.0 GHz Processor
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB VRAM, OpenGL compatible
Storage: 50 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

It's a great classic game, especially with a joystick. It might be even better with a gaming keypad, too.

Feb. 2025

A game about a glorious robot worker's uprising told from the perspective of the villain, a strikebreaking "Material Defender" sent by capitalists to end the robot worker utopia. Sounds right to me. This game can be confusing, disorienting and wildly spike in difficulty, but my goodness it was fun in the 90's and it's a blast still. It was worth pulling my joystick out of its storage box for this but it plays decently well on keyboard and mouse or keyboard-only, although the controls take some getting used to (kind of a mix of 90's FPS like DOOM and a flight simulator). As was the style at the time, levels all follow the same pattern: find blue key, open blue door, find yellow key, open yellow door, find red key, open red door, blow up reactor/boss, escape quickly. Always know where your exit is before blowing up that reactor! Having established that the game is an awesome 90's classic, the Steam release is... an overpriced DOSBox-emulated version. I mean, it plays the game as it was pretty much at release, which is fine by me, but $10 for a game that old with no QoL improvements is steep. There are better fan-made remasters that are better ideas, but if you just want to play it as-is and absolutely want it in your Steam library, then go ahead and buy! I wasn't disappointed. But if you want more, guides on Steam and elsewhere will get you many, many more levels beyond the 30 (27 + 3 secret levels) single-player levels in the base campaign and a better multiplayer experience.

Feb. 2025

It is a great action retro game that thankfully is now available for all. I am so far on level 3 and loving this game again. I played it years ago and now get to play it again. In order to play it you need dosbox installed before hand. The first time I installed the game from Steam, it would not work so I uninstalled it, installed dosbox and now it launches fine. Remember to press F1 for all the keyboard shortcuts including how to save.

June 2024

Well what can you say about the Classic Descent... I've been playing since its introduction in '95 along with Expansion in '96 World of Descent(?) with over 100 Player made levels. Yes, there are upgraded graphic Versions, but there is just a feeling and nostalgia of the original. How was I supposed to know that this game was going to influence my future in 3D modeling later in life? I can see and visualize in 3 dimensional space with spatial awareness. A career that spans nearly 30 years.

May 2024

The original FPS with true 3D movement. And it's not just 3D, it's the entire 6-degree-of-freedom package. If you experience vertigo or do not enjoy getting disoriented / reoriented multiple times, I don't recommend this. I played this after playing Overload, so I had knowledge and a good feel of the piloting controls prior. Otherwise, this captures the direct feel of movement and the fast-paced action of DOOM, and stands well for its time. The source ports, including D1X Rebirth, make this game more accessible today, and highly recommended for modern computers. A true classic. Oddly enough, Pro Pinball: The Web for the Playstation was when I first heard of this.

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