Action · March 6, 2014

Infested Planet (2014)

trophy36 achievementsextension2 DLCgroup100k–1M ownersrecommend2.4k recommendations
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy. The enemy is closing in around you. Your soldiers are being flanked and the perimeter is slowly collapsing under a vicious alien assault. Robotic turrets will not last much longer. Just a little more and the bugs will swarm into your unprotected base. What are your orders? You order your soldiers to fall back to a defensive chokepoint and rebuild your defenses. Sacrifice the forward squads to gain some extra time. Gather your team while equipping them with flamethrowers and laser guns. Start building a siege cannon for fire support. Then, while the aliens are busy, flank their main hives to destroy and capture them. You have just pulled off a tactical victory - but there's no time to rest. The aliens are constantly mutating. One moment your shotguns are ripping through the horde, the next the aliens grow hard, bullet-proof armour. You must adapt as well. Equip your team with stealth suits, miniguns, grenade launchers - your commands will decide the battle's outcome. Features Real time tactical combat A lengthy campaign where you develop new weapons Procedural maps and random mutation system keep the game fresh 21 Human weapons and buildings for you to wield 33 Alien mutations to keep you on your toes Fight thousands of enemies at once

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Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume3.0k Steam reviewsTop 79% in Action
Positive rating94% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 19%
Metacritic75/100Genre average 77 — top 65% of Action titles
Engagement hours6 h averageTop 67% for session depth among Action

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Strategy · 121
  • Tower Defense · 80
  • Action · 78
  • RTS · 71
  • Indie · 69
  • Singleplayer · 68
  • Top-Down · 68
  • Sci-fi · 50
  • Aliens · 35
  • Tactical · 32
  • 2D · 25
  • Real-Time with Pause · 11
  • Gore · 7

Reception Metrics

Steam community

94%Very Positive · 3.0k reviews

2.8k positive · 177 negative

Metacritic

75/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

7.7/10

Curator recommendations

2.4k

Press Quotes

'Alex Vostrov has created the most fiendishly clever, creatively generous, and cinematically thrilling facing-down-the-alien-hordes real time strategy game this side of the original Starcraft! Who says a great RTS has to be a big budget studio endeavor?' --Tom Chick, Quarter To Three 'Infested Planet is a game I’m excited to see evolve, as it has the potential to be a unique and engaging RTS unlike any I have played before.' --Nightmare Mode 'Infested Planet is already quite fun, and the…

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

6h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

3h

Typical completion time

Achievements

36

Steam unlocks available

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Leaderboards

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Release & Availability

Release dateMar 6, 2014
DeveloperRocket Bear Games
Base price$1.94
DLC / Add-ons2 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

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