| Earthfall | |
| Developer: | Holospark |
| Publisher: | Gearbox Publishing |
| Modes: | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Released: | July 13, 2018 |
| Genre: | First-person shooter |
Earthfall is a four-player cooperative first-person shooter video game developed by American studio Holospark and published by Gearbox Publishing. It was released on July 13, 2018, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game was released on Nintendo Switch on October 29, 2019, in the west and on March 19, 2020, in Japan.[1] [2] In the game, players are part of a guerilla force fighting hordes of deadly alien invaders. The game has been called a clone of Left 4 Dead by critics. It received mixed to negative reviews, citing an overall lack of quality.
Earthfall received an aggregate score of 61/100 on Metacritic for Windows.[3] T.J. Hafer of PC Gamer rated the game 75/100, calling it "worth playing with friends" and saying that while it is so similar to Left 4 Dead that it might be confused for a mod of that game, it is an "entertaining variation on that theme".[4] James Duggan of IGN rated the game 55/100, calling it "derivative" and "Left 4 Dead, but worse". He stated that since "very few elements of Earthfall