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  "path": "/before-darkness-falls-is-an-aliens-dark-descent-style-tactics-game-from-former-frostpunk-devs-and-i-did-enjoy-dying-in-its-depths",
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  "textContent": "The other day I posted a comment wondering whether anybody has ever made a colony simulator set in the Aliens universe, with players raising the Weyland-Yutani flag on planets that contain absolutely no parasitic lifeforms whatsoever [YOUR MISGIVINGS HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO CORPORATE. YOUR TERRAFORMING LICENSE HAS BEEN SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY. NO CRIMINAL CHARGES WILL BE FILED AT THIS TIME]. Some hours later, I realised that I'd sort of already played one. Before Darkness Falls is a \"tactical survival game\" in which you take charge of an industrial compound that is being nibbled away from below by a marauding evil.\n\nRead more",
  "title": "Before Darkness Falls is an Aliens: Dark Descent-style tactics game from former Frostpunk devs, and I did enjoy dying in its depths"
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