{"id":25990,"date":"2025-08-25T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25990"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:59:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:59:01","slug":"alien-breakout-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/25\/alien-breakout-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien Breakout (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/alien_box-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-25988\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ALIEN_BOX-150x59.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"59\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ALIEN_BOX-150x59.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ALIEN_BOX.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Help a little green alien escape from a secret laboratory in Alien Breakout.\u00a0 It\u2019s a 2-D precision platformer with some run and gun elements, and it\u2019s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n<p>Your little alien can run and jump, and leap from sticky surfaces like a wall jump.\u00a0 Soon after you start, you\u2019ll get a gun to shoot at enemy soldiers and aliens.\u00a0 You can also use the gun to solve puzzles like flipping switches, breaking blocks, and more.\u00a0 Each level is about one or two screens long, and luckily many of them have checkpoints.\u00a0 You must make it to the exit to pass a level, all the while avoiding obstacles along the way.\u00a0 The first 50 stages are in a laboratory, and the last 50 are on a UFO, for 100 levels in all.\u00a0 The game is challenging, but still somewhat doable, and makes for a decent and serviceable simple little 2-D platformer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/alien_screen-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ALIEN_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ALIEN_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ALIEN_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ALIEN_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alien Breakout is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can shoot at enemy soldiers and aliens and even innocent lab workers, but defeated characters just disappear in a puff of smoke.\u00a0 Reading skill isn\u2019t needed, but younger gamers may need help with some of the tougher challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help a little green alien escape from a secret laboratory in Alien Breakout.\u00a0 It\u2019s a 2-D precision platformer with some run and gun elements, and it\u2019s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here. Your little alien can run and jump, and leap from sticky surfaces like a wall jump.\u00a0 Soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25992,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25990\/revisions\/25992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}