Destroy All Humans! Clone Carnage: an alien invasion that won't start until player two shows up

Over the past several years, anyone trying to drop into a match has run into the same empty lobby, and that empty lobby is pretty much the whole story of how the game was received.

A destruction bundle that won't run on its own

The game's own store page spells out, in the fine print, what you only find out after installing it: there is no single-player mode. Plug in a second controller, sit someone down beside you, or the saucer never leaves the ground. Clone Carnage is the standalone package in the Destroy All Humans! franchise, built around four modes — free-roaming destruction, an apocalyptic one, a racing mode and a mass-abduction mode — spread across six maps, all of them revolving around the series' signature weapon: the anal probe gun.

Anyone who already owned the original 2020 release comes out ahead, since all of that game's skins are bundled in here, and the familiar loop plays out just the same — abduct humans, take over their bodies, and flatten Earth's architecture from above at the controls of your flying saucer. THQ Nordic GmbH handled both development and publishing, and the package reached GOG's catalog on May 31, 2022, filed under action, adventure and science fiction.

On paper, up to four humans or aliens square off at once, with split-screen covering local co-op for two people under the same roof. In practice, that ceiling depends on a full lobby — and it's exactly that detail that splits the people who liked the package from the ones who didn't.

A recommendation with a catch: it only works with company

The most favorable write-up on the package arrived on October 16, 2025, from someone who had won the game in a promotional draw. That player tested local co-op by hooking up a keyboard and a controller at the same time, covering both ends of the match solo, and reports that everything ran without a hitch. Even so, the write-up itself concedes the limit: with no one around to play online, there isn't much more to say about the package beyond the fact that it works. The endorsement that's left comes with one condition — it only holds up for someone who already has, at home, a second person willing to sit down alongside them. Without that second person, the same write-up wouldn't recommend a thing.

The same problem, in several languages, from 2022 to 2026

The complaint keeps coming back without a break. The comment most upvoted as helpful, from November 2022, sums the problem up in a few lines: there are no bots, there's no one playing, and you can't even open a room on your own. The same account resurfaces year after year — always the empty room, always the demand for a second player who never turns up. One person who tried again in July 2025 took it further: they waited on the server browser and turned up nothing, then tried to host their own room and found that the game insists on at least two players just for the match to begin. A few minutes later, they had already uninstalled it. Someone writing in Spanish boils down in one short sentence what the others lay out in paragraphs: there's no way to tell whether the game is any good, because no one plays it.

A long-time fan of the franchise, who still holds fond memories of the series' first entry on the original Xbox, sums up in April 2026 his disappointment with this sequel: with no solo mode and no bots in multiplayer, you have to round up real people to get anything out of the package. A Polish write-up from July 2025 is the only one to leave the door ajar: it grumbles about the same repetitive co-op and an all-but-dead multiplayer, yet still credits the package with an atmosphere and a sense of humor that, on their own, aren't enough to keep the game on its feet.

For anyone with a couch and a second controller within reach

If you live alone and mean to fire up the package for a single session, the outcome is settled from the loading screen on: there is no campaign mode, and the online queue stays empty, year after year. The invitation here is for two — one extra controller, a second person on the same couch, split-screen switched on — and it's only in that arrangement that the four modes and the six maps make any sense. On your own, the saucer won't even lift off.