Natural Selection 2 on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!

Natural Selection 2 is a multiplayer, strategy and fps game developed and published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment.
Released on October 30th 2012 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Finnish, Romanian, Swedish and Czech.

It has received 13,119 reviews of which 11,188 were positive and 1,931 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS:7 64-Bit (SP1) or Windows 10 64-Bit
  • Processor:Dual-core processor 2.4 GHz (Intel Core 2 Duo, i3), 2.6 GHz (AMD Athlon or FX)
  • Memory:6 GB RAM
  • Graphics:DirectX 11 compatible dedicated video card with 2 GB VRAM
  • DirectX®:11.0
  • Hard Drive:13 GB HD space
  • Other Requirements:Broadband Internet connection

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Jan. 2025
It is the only game of the "real time strategy asymmetrical fps" genre and absolutely deserves more attention but live service ended about a year ago and has lost most of it's players. I recommend getting a group of friends together to play it rather than trying to find a server.
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Nov. 2024
Commander plays RTS, infantry plays shooter Small online, many nerds Very long and difficult achievements 4/10 not a bad game, but not for me
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Nov. 2024
This game is a sad lost gem, avoiding by many because it's old or hard to learn. I had amazing 60-70 minutes matches on this game and even had some decent shit talking moments where it's actually allowed in this game. It's just a damn shame not many people play it.
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Nov. 2024
I really love the concept of this game. It's a pity nowadays there is nothing simillar.
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Aug. 2024
For $5 this game is an absolute steal, still has an active community, addicting competitive fps gameplay on the marines mixed with movement mechanics that would make "bhoppers" blush granting extreme mastery as aliens. Even if you never play Commander the game is enjoyable. If you do play commander, you will find a nice level of depth that RTS players will enjoy. Newbie friendly servers are pretty popular and always at least one is full. My main complaint is the netcode. Even at 90ms you get killed around corners as aliens a lot. No killcam means sometimes you experience deaths that really make you scratch your head. The developers have ceased active development on this game so don't get your hopes up. There's also a matchmaking mode that is totally broken, and apparently only populated by idlers who want to receive the rewards, so you have to use the server browser and you will never experience those rewards since they never enabled the progression for non-matched play. What's there is fun, despite these flaws.
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Natural Selection 2
8.3
11,188
1,931
Online players
130
Developer
Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Publisher
Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Release 30 Oct 2012
Platforms