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Descent is an excellent PC game from the good old MS-DOS era, developed by Parallax Software and Interplay Productions during the 1990s. The main developers were Mike Kulas and Matt Toschlog (founders of Parallax Software), and the game was released back on 1995 for MS-DOS PC, Macintosh, Playstation and Acorn Archimedes.
It’s a First Person Shooter and 6DOF videogame, and it mixes some mechanics from classic Arcade shooters and Flight Simulation games. The player navigates a ship through rooms and corridors on futuristic space mining stations while defeating hostile robots infected by a computer virus.
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Descent tools & files
Find an exhaustive list of source ports, tools, add-ons, missions and diverse utils and files to download for all Descent titles in my retro-themed website 👾😉
Featured Single-Player Missions / Level Packs
Descent
DIMENSIONAL INTERSECT
By: Yokelassence
A top-notch mission with excellent design, nice set of environments and heavy use of many D2X-XL features, one of the best XL-exclusive level sets ever made!
Descent 2
DIMENSIONAL INTERSECT
By: Yokelassence
A top-notch mission with excellent design, nice set of environments and heavy use of many D2X-XL features, one of the best XL-exclusive level sets ever made!
D2X-XL
By: Pumo
The featured project of Pumo Software. An ambitious mod and campaign with custom levels, enemies, music, textures, sounds, weapons and even a completely new universe, characters and lore to explore.
ANTHOLOGY
By: Sirius
Behemothic level featuring three big sections, each one corresponding to each of the games in the series (Descent, Descent II and Descent 3)
BOILING POINT
By: Diedel/Karx11erx
An interesting level set with some rad architecture and good use of D2X-XL features, although a bit way too difficult.
LUNAR OUTPOST RELOADED
By: Diedel/Karx11erx
Enhanced rendition of Lunar Outpost, our beloved first level from Descent: First Strike. It adds many new elements like effects, cameras, forcefields and all new architectural details.
DIMENSIONAL INTERSECT
By: Yokelassence
A top-notch mission with excellent design, nice set of environments and heavy use of many D2X-XL features, one of the best XL-exclusive level sets ever made!
DESCENT 3
DIMENSIONAL INTERSECT
By: Yokelassence
A top-notch mission with excellent design, nice set of environments and heavy use of many D2X-XL features, one of the best XL-exclusive level sets ever made!
Find many more missions for all three Descent games in the ultimate
"Descent Mission Archive - DXMA"
Miscellaneous Descent downloads
Sourceports
DXX-REDUX
D1X-Redux (Windows 64-bit)
D1X-Redux (Windows 32-bit)
D1X-Redux (Linux)
D1X-Redux (MacOS ARM)
D1X-Redux (MacOS)
DXX-REBIRTH
DXX-RETRO
CHOCOLATE DESCENT
You can play both Descent and Descent II on modern computers with these sourceports
Listed Sourceports are community-developed by many different authors
Original DirectX12-based game engine (for Windows) made from scratch to play Descent
(singleplayer only - requires original Descent game data)
Developed by: ProxyOne
DXX-Rebirth/Redux/Retro/Raytracer/Inferno
.DXA Add-Ons
D2X-XL Selected Add-Ons
Inferno Engine Mission Add-Ons & Mods
Find many more Descent-related files and downloads in my retro-themed website!
Many of the files available here are packed in either .7z or .rar format, so you will need 7-Zip or WinRAR to open and unpack them.
D2X-XL is a sourceport for the classic MS-DOS videogame Descent 2 that allows us to play the game on modern computers using Windows 10 or 11, Linux and Mac OS X.
It features several enhancements like OpenGL graphic features, lots of new effects, high resolution textures, 3D modeled powerups, some gameplay changes and advanced modding support.
The Pumo Mines singleplayer mod and campaign is precisely designed for D2X-XL by taking advantage of all mentioned features.
Originally developed by Karx11erx/Diedel, development of this sourceport has continued thanks to Descent community member Arne/Arbruijn. Source code and releases are available through GitHub, but you can also find the latest Windows 64-bit version binaries mirrored on this website.
