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Destroy All Humans!

byBlack Forest Games•2020

A remake of Destroy All Humans!, an action-adventure video game that stands as the inaugural entry in the Destroy All Humans! franchise. It unfolds in 1959 in the United States. The game satirises the lifestyles, pop culture, and political attitudes of that era. Players take on the role of Cryptosporidium 137, a member of the fictional alien race k...

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Released
July 28, 2020
Publisher
THQ Nordic
Platforms
PC · PS4 · Xbox One · Switch · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S · Switch 2

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Step one: Mix 1/2 cup of “Mars Attacks!”, 1/4 cup of John Water’s “Cry-Baby” and a teaspoon of action-adventure game mechanics and weapons. Step two: Pop in the oven at 220 degrees for 15 years and viola! you’ll have created something that resembles the brilliance that is Destroy All Humans! The game originally released in 2005 and is now remade for modern consoles and PC. The original became a cult classic with 1 million copies sold in under a year of its release. It also spawned...

Jul 28, 2020

I did not play Destroy All Humans on its initial release, and thought maybe it was a twist on Destroy All Monsters. Not quite. If you have not been exposed to this game before, it's a 1950s “little green men from Mars” coming to kill us all sort of thing...and it’s a hoot.Read More

Jul 25, 2021

Busting through the cosmos and onto your gaming console comes the cult classic remake Destroy All Humans from Black Forest Games and THQ Nordic. This game is

Aug 3, 2020

Destroy All Humans! is a refreshing remake that harkens back to the classic times. Read the full review by Twisted Voxel.

Aug 3, 2020

Destroy All Humans! makes an earnest effort to improve on every aspect of the original, but it’s hard to avoid the issues stemming from the era in which it came from. Despite it’s numerous improvements, Destroy All Humans is still plagued with banal repetition and tedium especially as the adventure draws to an end.

May 7, 2025

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Jun 5, 2021

Destroy All Humans! is a modern looking remake of a game that is clearly from another time. The open level structure allows players to create chaos and play around. The story isn’t anything to write home about and is still stuck in 2005 but all things considered this is a decent remake of a game that didn’t set the world on fire over 15 years ago.

May 26, 2021

Destroy All Humans! is an example of a remake done right. It keeps all the charm from the original while updating the aspects that didn’t age well.

Sep 16, 2020

Crypto-137 is hellbent on ensuring that humanity meets a terrible fate. By comparison, Destroy All Humans has met an enjoyable-enough-but-certainly-not-amazing fate. That’s fine, but it’s tough to not feel as though something truly great could’ve happened with some more creative license. If nothing else, this remake left me thinking that Destroy All Humans is still a viable property and that a brand new game might not be such a bad idea. But maybe that’s because an extraterrestrial has control of my cortex.

Aug 1, 2020

Destroy All Humans! is a fun and modernized action game that is held back by its 2005 design structure.

Jul 28, 2020

Destroy All Humans is out now — or rather, it’s been available for a day or two to those who’ve pre-ordered — and that right there is rather telling. Simply put, the remake of a 2005 plays like one, for all the good and bad that can be associated with that… so hopefully you knew what you were in for if you pre-ordered.

Jul 28, 2020

Destroy All Humans is a fun sandbox to wreak havoc through, but it spends too much time on other things.

Aug 3, 2020