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Can I play online with friends in Descent?
Yes, you can! Descent has an online multiplayer mode.

Is Descent cross-platform? Does Descent support cross-play?
No, Descent does not support cross-platform play.

Which perspective do you play from in Descent?
Descent has a first-person perspective.

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developerParallax Software
publisherInterplay Productions
MacPlay

release date
NAMarch 17th, 1995

Single PlayerFirst-PersonFlyingShootingOnline Multiplayer
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addedby Bhdan
on May 8th, 2022 last updatedby blustrkr
on June 9th, 2022

Developer Updates / Related News


Students added ray tracing to Descent and it looks sick
Classic shooter Descent, released in 1995, has gotten a facelift from some enterprising students who've added a fat stack of technical upgrades to the open, shareware fork of the game. Most notable is that perennial glory: pathtraced global illumination. It's what the kids these days are calling "ray traced lighting.".. "Read more." Descent: Underground resurfaces with a shorter title and more single-player focus
For a while, I’d forgotten about free-floating FPS "Descent: Underground" – turns out it had just gone radio-silent for a retooling, "announced here". Still being worked on by Descendent Studios and now backed by publisher Little Orbit, the game is now just called ‘Descent’, and is now a more single-player oriented game, diverging from the originally multiplayer-centric Underground. It’ll be entering beta testing in November and is due for a 2019 release, and will be a ... Descent formerly Descent: Underground begins beta testing in November
"Descent: Underground" was successfully Kickstarted in April 2015, went to Early Access later that year, and then in September 2017 was "taken down" so the developers could "focus on implementing single-player, tech trees, and the other cool features we’ve talked about." That was the final update on Steam until yesterday, when publisher Little Orbit dropped a new trailer and said that a Descent beta will begin in November, followed by a release in early 2019.  The beta will be ... Interplay Sells Off Descent, Kingpin, Earthworm Jim Etc
Don’t call it a comeback. Don’t call it, like, three comebacks. "Interplay", once renowned as a house of PC ideas, has failed to get back off the ground across "various attempts at resurrection", and it seems matters have gone no better for whoever is currently wearing the well-worn skinsuit. ‘Interplay’ has just "announced "a firesale of various intellectual properties. Which means that the likes of Descent, Freespace, Kingpin, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, MDK, Sacrifice and Earthw... Spiritual Descent Remake Overload Needs $17K In 4 Hrs
Edit: and "it made it", with just under two hours to go. Yer new Descent will be a reality, then. Congrats to Revival. The bums, they are a-squeakin’. There are just four hours left on "the Kickstarter clock" for "Overload", the game from the core creators of the original Descent, and it appears they need to round up the best part of $20k in that time. A photo finish is not at all impossible, but I imagine it’s been a sleepless night for Revival productions. …
 
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