Alien Breed

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Alien Breed
Developer(s) Team17
Publisher(s) Team17
MicroLeague
First release Alien Breed
1991
Latest release Alien Breed 3: Descent
November 17, 2010

Alien Breed is a series of top-down science fiction shoot 'em up video games developed by Team17 primarily for the Amiga in the 1990s, heavily inspired by the Alien films and featuring game play reminiscent of the classic arcade game Gauntlet. Later, first-person shooter titles were released under the Alien Breed name. In 2009, the series was revived with Alien Breed Evolution .

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List of Alien Breed games

First era

Second era

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