Destroy All Humans! — Steam Gift

Destroy All Humans! — invade 1950s Earth as Crypto-137

This is one of those rare games where playing the villain is pure joy. In Destroy All Humans! you don't save the world — you land to conquer it. Crypto-137, a short-tempered Furon alien with a sharp sense of humor, drops into 1950s America to harvest human DNA and put on a little apocalypse along the way. Here you get the full game as a Steam gift — it lands straight in your library.

What this game is

Destroy All Humans! is the remake of the cult satirical open-zone action game, released in 2020 by Black Forest Games under THQ Nordic. It's a ground-up redo of the 2005 original: same missions and characters, but with modern visuals, reworked controls and improved physics. You pilot a flying saucer, roam towns on foot as Crypto and spread panic among upstanding Americans living in the age of McCarthyism and Red Scare paranoia.

Why it's fun

The arsenal is the star. Crypto has telekinesis to fling cows and cars, a disintegrator that turns people into skeletons, the Anal Probe (yes, that's the actual weapon name) and a gun for extracting brains. In the saucer you add a death ray and an abducto-beam that lifts tanks and drops them onto buildings. The satire is biting and precise: the game mocks Cold War paranoia, glossy American advertising and conspiracy theories. The tone is light, cheeky and gloriously trashy — and that's exactly what keeps it charming years later.

What's included in the gift

• The full single-player campaign: dozens of missions across towns from quiet farms to a big city.
• Crypto's entire arsenal plus weapon and saucer upgrades bought with harvested DNA.
• The extra Lost Mission location, cut from the original and restored in the remake.

This is a standalone full game — no base version to buy, and no add-ons or season passes required.

How you get the gift

Delivery is via Steam Gift. You provide your Steam friend invite link and your account region, and our bot adds itself, sends the gift, then leaves your friends list once it's delivered — no request to accept. It usually takes a couple of minutes after checkout. Steam Guard is not required, and account activity or owning other games doesn't matter.

Region and key conditions

The golden rule of Steam gifts: your account region must match the gift region, or Steam simply won't let you accept it. So state your account region accurately at checkout. The second condition is that Destroy All Humans! must not already be in the recipient account's library — Steam won't accept a gift for a game you already own. Also make sure friend requests are enabled in your profile settings, otherwise the bot can't reach you.

What the gameplay is made of

The map is split into several zone-locations: the quiet town of Rockwell, a farm, the suburbs, a military base and a big city. Each has its own story missions and side jobs. Gameplay alternates between two modes: Crypto on foot, who walks among humans, reads minds, disguises himself as passers-by with a holobob and fries anyone who gets nosy, and saucer flight, where the real demolition begins — buildings collapse, tanks fly into the air and the alert level climbs until the army shows up. Every mission and every chunk of harvested DNA lets you upgrade your weapons, saucer and Crypto's abilities, unlocking ever more destructive toys.

Is the remake worth it today

The remake is the best version of the game available now: the 2005 original feels dated in controls and visuals, while here everything is reworked, yet the spirit of satire and trash is fully intact. It's a short, concentrated and never-bloated adventure for a couple of evenings, perfect when you just want to have fun and smash everything in sight without grindy, joyless mechanics. Buying it as a gift from us puts a full copy on your own Steam account — it stays yours forever, like any game bought on Steam.

System requirements and platforms

The game runs on Windows via Steam. It plays nicely on the Steam Deck and on modest PCs too — the remake doesn't chase photorealism, it bets on style and a readable picture. Controls feel equally good on a gamepad or keyboard and mouse.

Similar games

If you enjoy THQ Nordic's brand of cheeky action, check out the direct sequel Destroy All Humans! 2 — Reprobed — Crypto-137 invades the 1960s with new gadgets and co-op. From the same era of unhinged open-world action, you'll enjoy Saints Row and Red Faction: Guerrilla — both about destruction, chaos and dark humor.