This gathers the action games set in the Alien universe, a run that swings wildly in quality. At the low end sits Aliens: Colonial Marines, a 2013 squad shooter remembered mostly as a cautionary tale. At the high end are the later co-op and tactical entries, Fireteam Elite and the real-time, squad-command Dark Descent, alongside the older first-person Alien Trilogy.
It is a games-only branch of the Alien franchise, defined by a recurring tension: how to make the slow, suffocating dread of the films work as a game about shooting Xenomorphs by the dozen. The strongest entries lean back toward fear; the weakest forget it entirely.
The The Action Games franchise spans 4 games in the CrossBinge catalog.
Part of Alien.