City 16

Clearly the free game route is the way to go for now, but after the month long Neptune’s Pride betrayal-a-thon it’s probably a good idea for the next community event to be a little (a lot) shorter. We’re in luck.

Alien Swarm is the newly released 4 player top-down shooter from Valve. It’s also completely free, just go to the Steam page to install it. Games are scheduled for tomorrow evening, just find me in game. If you stick something in this posts comments thread then I’ll invite you in when the game’s set up to make the process a little easier.

If you’re wondering how the game plays, imagine a co-op version of Shadowgrounds or one of around 600 million freeware games and you’d be in the right ballpark. Here’s a trailer to give you a taste. Short version: their are aliens, they come in swarms.

If you want to join our Steam community (now up to a dizzying 6 members!) here’s the page.

UPDATE: As an added incentive, if you complete two campaigns in Alien Swarm, you get a hat for Team Fortress 2. Any excuse to add new hats…