Tech Olive

The Bargain Bin is a weekly feature that helps out gamers in the tough economy. How does it help? Once a week, it offers a great and cheap game ($10 or less) to keep you going until your next paycheck.

This week, The Bargain Bin offers you its greatest deal yet. Picture a fantastic co-op shooter game that pits up to four space marines against countless hordes of deadly aliens. If it’s sounding a bit like Left 4 Dead, then you’d be on the right track because this game was originally created by some of the minds behind the Left 4 Dead series. The best part of all this? It’s Valve-developed and 100% free of charge.

Alien Swarm‘s top-down camera angle might be a bit difficult for some gamers to grasp and the fact that it only comes with a 1-3 hour campaign may be a disappointment, but considering Valve’s community, there will be no shortage of support. As it stands, the game released a week ago and there’s already 13 user maps on FPS Banana. So what are you waiting for? Even if there a tiny part of you that thinks this could be playable, you should grab it. It’s FREE!