You pilot a space ship that moves 360 degrees in all three dimensions in this famous shooter. You work for a mining corporation whose bases have been attacked by an invasion force that is heading towards Earth. The manufacturing facilities have been adapted from building mining robots to develop a robot army. Your mission is to move from mine to mine, destroy the core and escape before the entire mine is obliterated. Originally planned as an Apogee shareware title, the shareware version contains the first 7 levels and is missing a few of the weapons. The registered version has 30 levels.

Downloads

Descent v1.4 Shareware (2,892,216 bytes)	11 April 1995	DOS	Play online
Descent v1.3 Shareware (2,912,442 bytes)	6 March 1995	DOS
Descent v1.2 Shareware (2,912,611 bytes)	22 February 1995	DOS
Descent v1.1 Shareware (2,909,561 bytes)	6 January 1995	DOS
Descent v1.0 Shareware (Still searching)	15 December 1994	DOS

Source code for Descent v1.5 in Watcom C/C++ 9.5 (1,510,364 bytes)

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Availability

Interplay has filed for bankruptcy protection and has closed its online store.

It can be downloaded in a Windows XP/Vista/7-compatible format from GOG for $5.99.

It can be purchased from Amazon:

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