Infested Planet 2014

About

Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.

Story

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.

What is happening now

Infested Planet is a real-time strategy game where players defend against waves of alien threats across procedurally generated maps. The tactical focus emphasizes positioning and resource management as you hold ground against escalating swarm attacks, with the ability to customize your squad loadouts between missions. Recent coverage has highlighted CitaDrill, a roguelite city-builder that shares thematic DNA with Infested Planet's subterranean setting. CitaDrill tasks players with managing a city encased within a mobile drill unit tunneling through hostile terrain, blending urban management with the survival pressure of continuous descent. The game appears aimed at players drawn to Infested Planet's strategic depth but seeking a different gameplay loop centered on persistent civilization-building rather than combat encounters.