Infested Planet

About

In Infested Planet, you lead a squad of five soldiers against a relentless alien invasion. The gameplay loops around base defense, resource gathering, and real time unit management. Aliens overwhelm your position in waves, forcing you to retreat, regroup, and shift tactics. Build turrets, upgrade weapons, and assign roles to each soldier to hold chokepoints or launch hit-and-run strikes. The enemy evolves constantly, what worked last mission becomes obsolete as aliens develop armor or swarm tactics. Your choices matter: sacrifice units to buy time, seize objectives, or risk all in a bold counterattack. The game thrives on its escalating tension and adaptive strategy. With a 85% Metacritic score, players praise the tight feedback loop between planning and execution. Each mission demands creative problem solving, balancing short term survival with long term goals like capturing alien hives or unlocking new tech. The 10 hour single player campaign never lets up, though some find the steep difficulty curve frustrating. Running on 2014 systems, it’s a polished example of tactical RTS design that still holds up against modern competition.

Storyline

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.