Alien Hominid HD
Alien Hominid HD is a PlayStation 5 shooter game developed by The Behemoth. It centers on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and weapon and firepower management, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.7 / 10
About this game
Alien Hominid HD is a PlayStation 5 shooter game centered on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and weapon and firepower management. Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Alien Hominid is a hand-drawn run-and-gun series about small aliens causing enormous trouble for human agents. You fire, jump and dodge through cartoon mayhem, from the original’s compact shootout to Invasion’s cooperative missions.
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Several offensive and defensive moves make short challenges enjoyable, with one-hit deaths demanding close attention.
Alien Hominid HD keeps a direct and demanding side-scrolling rhythm. Run and shoot, then use jumps, digging, grenades and close-range attacks to find gaps in danger. Both enemies and the protagonist often fall to a single hit, making successful movement tense while turning unfamiliar bosses into potentially costly trial and error. Vehicle sections and extra minigames add variety, so the fairly short campaign is not simply one repeated corridor. Its strongest identity remains the hand-drawn style, exaggerated animation and mischievous humor, where character matters more than realism. The PlayStation editions support offline solo or two-player local cooperation and several difficulty choices. It is a good match for arcade action fans comfortable with restarts and practice. Players especially sensitive to losing progress should begin with a lower difficulty.
Strengths
- Varied actions support tense side-scrolling fights
- Strong hand-drawn animation
Weaknesses
- One-hit deaths and stage restarts raise the cost of learning
Who it is for: Arcade action fans comfortable with repeated practice
Play notes: Consider starting on Easy; two-player cooperation is local.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Vehicles and minigames add variety, while boss trial and error and restarts consume repeated time. | Reviewed | 7.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Several offensive and defensive moves make short challenges enjoyable, with one-hit deaths demanding close attention. | Reviewed | 7.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Bold lines and exaggerated animation give the adventure a strong identity. | Reviewed | 8.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Offline two-player support and difficulty choices ease access without inferring unmeasured platform performance differences. | Reviewed | 7.8 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- The Behemoth
- Publisher
- The Behemoth
- Release date
- Jun 10, 2025
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Shooter · Primary genre
- Tags
- Third PersonMain Story Under 10 HoursReplayableShootingReal-time Combat3D GraphicsWarLinear LevelsDodgePlayer versus EnvironmentFast-pacedSolo-friendly
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Co-opMultiplayerSingle player
- Perspectives
- Side view
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideJun 10, 2025
- PlayStation 4Worldwide2025
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