Super Mutant Alien Assault

75%
Game Brain Score Based on 80 reviews
  • gameplay
  • music
  • graphics
Super Mutant Alien Assault Game Cover
Although it's short and unspectacular, Super Mutant Alien Assult is a fun arcade platform shooter that is worth a visit.
Starting at €9.75Buy now
Get on Steam Get on Xbox Games Store

"Super Mutant Alien Assault" is a challenging arcade-style platformer where you fend off alien attacks on a spaceship. With rapid fire levels and randomized objectives, enemies, and vending machines, each playthrough is unique. Unlock and master a variety of weapons, abilities, and perks to survive and save humanity across three galaxies.

  • Nintendo Switch
  • PC
  • Play​station 4
  • Play​station 5
  • Windows
  • Xbox One
  • Xbox Series X|S
  • Play​Station
  • Play​station Vita
  • Xbox
Genres & TagsPlay Modes

Reviews

75%
Audience ScoreBased on 80 reviews
gameplay13 positive mentions
story3 negative mentions
  • The game features beautiful pixel art and a variety of weapons, making the gameplay visually appealing and engaging.
  • It offers a fun and addictive experience with a good balance of challenge, allowing players to enjoy both solo and couch co-op modes.
  • The mechanics are easy to pick up but hard to master, providing a rewarding gameplay loop with plenty of unlockable content.
  • The game suffers from technical issues, particularly with framerate drops and lag, which can detract from the overall experience.
  • Some players find the gameplay repetitive and lacking in depth, with limited enemy and level variety leading to a feeling of staleness.
  • The soundtrack, while energetic, has been criticized for being overly aggressive and not matching the game's pace, leading to a less enjoyable audio experience.
  • gameplay33 mentions

    The gameplay is characterized by a mix of solid mechanics and engaging challenges, offering a rewarding experience that is easy to learn but difficult to master. While some players appreciate the variety of weapons and gameplay modes, others find the complexity and tutorial-like unlocks detract from the overall enjoyment. Overall, the game provides a fast-paced, addictive experience with a commendable balance of strategy and action, though opinions vary on its depth and replayability.

    • “The gameplay is tight, challenging, and intense.”
    • “Super mutant alien assault is a mechanically excellent title that yearns to be experienced, and you'll be particularly aware of this if you are from older generations who still visited local arcades.”
    • “I really love how the different weapons force you to adapt your gameplay, and I love learning to get good with each new weapon.”
    • “I'm not a fan of this kind of gameplay.”
    • “The music does not match the gameplay or feeling; it is much faster and more intense, which the gameplay is not.”
    • “Needlessly complex with a lot of different objectives and machines every level, or a mix of them per level, which makes the gameplay unfocused and unintuitive.”
  • music27 mentions

    The music in the game is polarizing, with many players either loving or hating the heavy reliance on dubstep and electronic tracks. While some praise the soundtrack for enhancing the action and fitting the game's theme, others find it too aggressive and mismatched with the gameplay, leading to a desire to mute it entirely. Overall, the music is a significant aspect of the game, but its appeal largely depends on individual taste in genres.

    • “The music is my favorite aspect of the game because it really fits the action and theme of the game, but if you're not a fan of electro/dubstep music, I wouldn't recommend the game because this type of music is basically 100% of the soundtrack and without music, the game might feel pretty boring.”
    • “Soundtrack is great, art is beyond amazing, I'm gonna be playing this all week.”
    • “Epic music!”
    • “The nondescript grimness of the aesthetics and backdrops do it no favors, and its musical score is more scratchy than catchy.”
    • “The music does not match the gameplay or feeling; it is much faster and more intense, which the gameplay is not.”
    • “My ears started to bleed, so I muted the music completely.”
  • graphics26 mentions

    The graphics of the game receive a mixed but generally positive reception, with many praising the beautiful pixel art style and well-designed environments that evoke classic 16-bit aesthetics. While some users note issues with the game's overall visual consistency and a lack of advanced graphical features, the vibrant and colorful designs of characters and settings are frequently highlighted as standout elements. Overall, the graphics contribute significantly to the game's enjoyable gameplay experience.

    • “I love the art style and sounds.”
    • “The game has some really beautiful environments and the graphics are really well designed and laid out.”
    • “Gorgeous flowing pixel art style.”
    • “The nondescript grimness of Assault’s aesthetics and backdrops do it no favors...and its musical score is more scratchy than catchy.”
    • “This is a known issue with pretty much every build of GameMaker Studio and the few workarounds include forcing v-sync on the game file through your graphics card settings and by locking your monitor to 60Hz to force the game to run at 60fps, though this does not work for every system.”
    • “- level design and aesthetics can get too 'samey' after a while”
  • replayability7 mentions

    Overall, the game offers a solid level of replayability with features like an endless mode, gradual unlocks, and various strategies around power-ups, appealing to players who enjoy challenge and randomness. However, some users note that the short campaign and lack of additional modes limit its long-term replay value, leading to mixed opinions on its overall depth.

    • “Add in an endless mode that has a leaderboard, and you have a great game with some awesome graphics and tons of replayability.”
    • “Iterative and random enough for infinite replayability.”
    • “The game has a pretty decent replayability otherwise because of the numerous strategies you can build up around the power-ups, and it's pretty challenging.”
    • “The incredibly short campaign can take as little as fifteen minutes to complete, leaving not much replay value due to a lack of additional modes.”
    • “The game can be overly frustrating when randomness fails; special abilities and defensive moves feel unnecessary, resulting in not much depth or replayability.”
  • story5 mentions

    The story in "Super Mutant Alien Assault" is minimal but serves as a backdrop for an engaging gameplay experience, featuring a variety of missions and cooperative 2D arena shooting. While the narrative may not be the game's focal point, it complements the action-packed gameplay and retro visuals, enhancing the overall experience. Players appreciate the inclusion of an actual storyline alongside improved graphics and diverse gameplay modes.

    • “Such is the case with super mutant alien assault, an SSP that, despite lacking those fancy scrolling graphics, provides a fulfilling quest comparable to a modern rogue-lite.”
    • “It's Super Crate Box, but with more enemies, more weapons, better pixel art, the barest hint of a story, and a lot more gameplay modes.”
    • “Improved graphics, new modes, an actual storyline, more weapons and enemies, even bosses!”
    • “Such is the case with Super Mutant Alien Assault, an SSP that, despite lacking those fancy scrolling graphics, provides a fulfilling quest comparable to a modern rogue-lite.”
  • grinding2 mentions

    Players find the grinding aspect of the game to be tedious and unfulfilling, as the slow pace of unlocks detracts from the overall experience. The repetitive nature of grinding for resources feels like a chore, ultimately prolonging gameplay without adding meaningful depth to combat or enemy encounters.

    • “The roguelite formula doesn’t gel too well with the game’s pace, as the drip feed of unlocks does it no favors in complementing the rather shallow combat and enemy compositions, and only serves to prolong the runtime by gating new toys behind its tedious grinds.”
    • “You can sprint around the rock smashing it all you want, but at the end of the day, you're doing long tedious work and have to keep running around in circles to get the job done.”
  • humor2 mentions

    The humor in the game is highlighted as very funny, with a combination of strange and novel items that create intense and hilarious moments, enhancing the game's quirky and chaotic atmosphere.

    • “Very funny.”
    • “Combined with the aforementioned abundance of strange and novel items, this feature makes for some intense and hilarious moments that really amplify the game's crazier side.”
Positive mentions (%)Positive
Neutral mentions (%)Neutral
Negative mentions (%)Negative

Critic Reviews

71% average critic score

Buy Super Mutant Alien Assault

Videos

Similar Games