Never had the chance to play it properly. I had a demo of it in a magazine CD, but could never figure out the controls

If you liked and miss Decent, check out Overload on Steam. It's great.

Man I friggin loved Descent II. Game was so fun and immersive. I watched that opening cinematic over and over. The soundtrack was fantastic as well.

I later went and played Descent 1 as well but 2 was the one I played the most.

2 also has the thief bot which while infuriating also lead to some of the most memorable gameplay for me. Just chasing that little piece of shit to the ends of the earth and then feeling so triumphant when I finally nabbed it and got my stuff back.

I remember playing this on my Voodoo graphics card back in the day.

I always wanted to check it out again, but there are no proper discounts of this game anymore, and the price even increased to 20€ a couple of months back. Who thinks that anybody will buy Descent with DOSBox for 20€ in 2025? Might as well just use my old pirated copy on a burned CD I have somewhere.

Nausea has never been as fun as it was back then.

I used to have an early VR headset. With 3DoF headtracking, 640x480 at 60 Hz (combined, so actually every eye got only half of that). Descent supported stereoscopic 3D and the headtracking could be added to almost every game with a mouse driver. It was bad. Really bad. Descent alone could be nausea inducing. In VR it was a literal pukefest. Still I had to try it every few months or so, because it was so cool on paper.

This game holds a special place in my life. Back in the 90s we had it on the family PC and it was so awesome.

Every once in a while I play it on DOSBox. I fully recomend it. It's an amazing game.

Played the shit outra this and descent 2. Sad its gone, but it gave us my favourite space sim: Descent FreeSpace 1 & 2

Played the hell out of 1, 2, and 3, along with Freespace. Planetdescent was my home for years. Shakerheads unite!

that was a great game

One of the things I've always remembered about Decent was when you put in cheat codes it would play a little sound effect of someone saying "cheater..."

I played the shit out of this. I bet the controls are still hard coded in me.

Brilliant game.

Worth playing with the PS1 Descent soundtrack too for a different experience (or Descent Maximum as it was across the pond), it got me in to Type O-Negative too.

Descent was ahead of its time. Are there any modern games that are similar?

One of the few games from my childhood that I don't have a copy of on any modern library. :(

I never played Descent itself, but I played a shitty clone on one of those “1000 Games on 10 CD-ROMs” packs back in the day.

After learning about the source material, I always wanted to go try it but haven’t taken the time.

I played terminal velocity, kind of like the 'we have descent at home'

Also around that time there was a game Magic Carpet EA published that had a similar feel

I used to play the hell out of both 1&2, but now my old brain can no longer compute the 360 movement in a claustrophobic environment.

I remember I had a super low Kali number.

Civvie 11 had a good video on both Descent games.

If you like 6DOF games, check out Everspace 1 and 2.

The author failes to mention that some of the Original creators went on and made Overload, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overload_(video_game), a modern descent version. It even supports vr (which is awesome). A bit lazy journalism tbh

My favorite thing in this game was how everyone would orient themselves differently. There was no "the enemy gate is down" mentality, you'd come around a corner and people would be at some weird, sideways angle and you'd think "wait, that's supposed to be 'down'?" Right before shooting them in all 3 of their polygons.

Good times

Oh, I remember this one. It was confusing but fun. My friend and I linked PCs via serial cable but I think my machine was too slow to handle it.

He could fly around and shoot me down with no issues but all I could see was a slideshow! It was unplayable. 😄

@DosDude and Acclaim's technically impressive clone, Forsaken!

One of the few games that worked on my vfx1 20 something years ago… a blast. I tried it’s successor when I got the index but it failed to revive the flame.

One of the only games to give me vertigo.

I remembered it with VR of those times! 🥹

Descent is why I invert my mouse in all fps games. I started with a joystick plus keyboard, because I was fresh off of F-19, the flight simulator.

For people who enjoyed Descent, you may enjoy Overload. It was created by some of the original creators and is also a 6DOF shooter.

Hell yeah, good times!

This and Marathon were why I almost didn't make it into University.

Such a great game. God the 90s were amazing for games.

I spent so much time in descent freespace back in the day

Totally slapped but oh the motion sickness