Alien Swarm – Valve’s free game

On Monday you’ll be able to get Alien Swarm from Valve for free.

Here’s the deal; Alien Swarm was a top-down, four-player co-op from 2004. Turns out that Valve hired the team behind the game in 2008, had them work on L4D, Portal 2 but also Alien Swarm.

Interestingly, Valve’s also releasing an SDK on Monday. That’ll be free. The code base for Alien Swarm is being released on Monday as well. Yes; for free.

I’ve got pictures and crunchy stuff. Okay, pictures first:

Now for the crunchy stuff:

• Tactical, 4 player co-op action game with a top-down perspective
• Complete game code and mod tools
• Unlock persistent items by gaining levels
• Over 40 weapons and equipment with countless loadout configurations
• 4 unique classes and 8 unique characters
• Matchmaking, Steam Cloud, Steam Stats
• 64 achievements
• Tile-based map generation tool
• Powered by Source and Steam