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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* Anything in the "Unknowns" category of [[Mortasheen]] that isn't a flat-out [[Eldritch Abomination]] is this, with the strangest being the Meteor Series, which ''aren't even technically "alive".''
* The Hivers of [[Traveller]] are vaguely starfish-like aliens with nonhuman physiologies, biologies, psychologies, society, and which reproduce by budding. Considered a challenge to role-play. Despite the name, they are not a [[Hive Mind]], nor are they [[Bee People]]. The tag "hivers" was hung on them by a human who thought their buildings looked like beehives.
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** Oddly enough, some of the aliens which weren't "actors in rubber suits" became more humanoid or at least less weird/alien.
* Numerous ''[[X-COM]]'' alien varieties fit this description. From ''UFO Defense'' come the Celatids and Silacoids-a floating kidney bean and a silicon lifeform, respectively; from ''Terror From The Deep'' hail the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Lobstermen]], Calcinites (blobs of protoplasm inside diving suits), and Tenatculats (aquatic brains with tentacles and a single eye), and ''all'' the aliens from ''Apocalypse''.
** The Cyberdisk from the first game and the 2012 reboot is a borderline example, as according to some flavour text it's not clear whether it's a robotic attack drone or some sort of [[Mechanical Lifeforms|mechanical lifeform]].
* While most alien species in ''[[Anachronox]]'' are Rubber Forehead Aliens, the [[Time Minders]] are large, white, insectile aliens who perceive time non-linearly. Naturally, they function as the game's save points.
* The Cocytans from the 1995 adventure game ''[[The Dig]]'', which look like the 9 feet offspring of a ''rooster'' and a ''llama''.
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