Where to get it

2018 · Action · Adventure

Earthfall: Alien Horde

Earthfall is a co-operative shooter for up to four players. Using team-based tactics to fortify holdouts and complete objectives, players must work together to survive.

Released: 2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 Windows Xbox One
Genres: Action Adventure First-person shooter Shooter
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action Science fiction
Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Country: United States
Age ratings: PEGI 16 CERO D ESRB T
Languages: Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat: 6hmain story100hcompletionist

About

Earthfall is a four-player cooperative first-person shooter video game developed by American studio Holospark and published by Gearbox Publishing. It was released on July 13, 2018, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game was released on Nintendo Switch on October 29, 2019, in the west and on March 19, 2020, in Japan.

Players say

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Reception

Earthfall received an aggregate score of 61/100 on Metacritic for Windows. J. Hafer of PC Gamer rated the game 75/100, calling it "worth playing with friends" and saying that while it is so similar to Left 4 Dead that it might be confused for a mod of that game, it is an "entertaining variation on that theme". James Duggan of IGN rated the game 55/100, calling it "derivative" and "Left 4 Dead, but worse".

He stated that since "very few elements of Earthfall's 10 missions are randomized", replaying the same level is extremely repetitive, leading to a lack of replay value. He praised the game's weapon designs, but called the game's shooting "okay at best". Javy Gwaltney of Game Informer rated the game 50/100, saying the game "stumble[s] over its own feet when it comes to the most basic qualities of a first-person shooter".