The popularity of the TC even reached outside the Doom community, for instance providing inspiration for the 1998 Dreamworks game Trespasser. In the week following the release of Doom II, there was more discussion in the Doom newsgroups related to Aliens TC than to Doom II. It was the first total conversion and is one of the most famous.

Aliens TC is a total conversion based on the movie Aliens, created in 1994 by Justin Fisher.