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Descent

1995Parallax SoftwareFPSShmup

Descent is a first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Productions in 1995 for MS-DOS, and later for Macintosh, PlayStation, and RISC OS. It popularized a subgenre of FPS games employing six degrees of freedom and was the first FPS with entirely true-3D graphics. The player is cast as a mercenary hired to eliminate the threat of a mysterious extraterrestrial computer virus infecting off-world mining robots. In a series of mines throughout the Solar System, the protagonist pilots a spaceship and must locate and destroy the mine's power reactor and escape before being caught in the mine's self-destruction, defeating opposing robots along the way. Players can play online and compete in either deathmatches or cooperate to take on the robots.

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A source port of Descent and Descent II that modernizes them for current PCs with OpenGL rendering and UDP multiplayer.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars637
Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2013
Archived
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Parallax Software's original 1998 Descent 1 source code, released without the sound and modem code the studio didn't own the rights to.
Platforms:WindowsOSXSaturn
Stars430
Updated8 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2012
Active
Original game (original game, not this project)Original game image
A browser-playable Three.js port of Descent, bundling shareware Episode 1 and supporting the full game with your own copy.
Platforms:Web
Stars89
Updated2 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2026
Halted
Original game (original game, not this project)Original game image
A source port of the DOS game Descent to Android and iOS; requires game files from a licensed copy.
Stars55
Updated5 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
Halted
Original game (original game, not this project)Original game image
A Python/Panda3D remake of Descent aiming for the same spirit rather than an exact clone; currently unplayable.
Platforms:None
Stars13
Updated15 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2010
Sporadic
Original game (original game, not this project)Original game image
A Descent-inspired 3D shooter with six-degrees-of-freedom movement, built in C++ with the OGRE 3D engine; playable but sporadic.
Platforms:None
Stars0
Updated1 year ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2025
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Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
LicenseGPL2*