Alien Hominid HD
Alien Hominid HD, the award-winning 2D side-scroller from The Behemoth, is now available for Steam! With hand-drawn graphics, excitingly fast gameplay, and the humor that started it all, loading up this title…
Alien Hominid HD is an arcade developed by The Behemoth, released 1 November 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Alien Hominid HD is
Alien Hominid HD is an arcade game developed by The Behemoth and released in 2023. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Alien Hominid is a run and gun video game developed by The Behemoth and first released as a Flash game on the multimedia website Newgrounds on August 7, 2002. It was originally developed in Adobe Flash by programmer and Newgrounds founder, Tom Fulp, and animator and artist, Dan Paladin. An expanded console version was released on the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox across 2004 and 2005. A port for the Game Boy Advance, developed by Tuna Technologies, was released in 2006 for PAL regions. A high-definition version titled Alien Hominid HD was released for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade in 2007. Another remaster, Alien Hominid HD, was released for Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen. There are 12 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Alien Hominid HD holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3 or AMD FX, 8 GB RAM and Radeon R7 or Geforce GTX 770. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Alien Hominid HD launched on 1 November 2023, within three weeks of Alan Wake II, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and The Talos Principle II. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Alan Wake II, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, The Talos Principle II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Alien Hominid HD yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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