Alien: Isolation

One of the best horror-games, period.

The story can drag on a bit for sure and the A.I. can be fuck-y from time to time but it's a must-play, in the dark, with the sound turned way up.

A game I wish I could play for the first time again, or a sequel. Stays true to the IP.
I love it.

this game is 10+ years old but still looks great, and i've been in a state of chronic tension the entire time i'm playing. i'm honestly not sure if i'm enjoying this. the story is amazing. it's just super stressful. A+

Alien: Isolation is, without a doubt, one of the best survival horror games I have ever played. I have nothing to say about the Xenomorph that hasn't been said by anyone else - it is a masterpiece in stalker monsters, with an adaptive AI that makes it very interesting to face. Every item and tool you find has pros and cons, forcing you to be creative in your methods of staying hidden or, failing that, incinerating everything in your way.

Aside from the Xenomorph, I genuinely loved the game's atmosphere. It does a perfect job capturing the retro-futuristic aesthetic of the first two Alien films, especially with the menus and the outdated Seegson-brand equipment aboard Sevastopol, and goes into detail about a different corporation - greater series antagonist Weyland-Yutani aren't directly responsible for the events on Sevastopol, for once, although they still play a minor role with the Torrens being sent to recover the Nostromo flight recorder.

This game is an underrated gem, and a must-play for fans of the genre and the Alien franchise.

Alien: Isolation is a masterclass in survival horror, capturing the essence of Ridley Scott’s Alien (released in 1979). This game is set 15 years after the film, and it follows Amanda Ripley as she searches for her mother aboard the Sevastopol station.

The environment is haunting, with dim lighting, a futuristic yet retro design, and a constant sense of unease. The real horror, however, comes from the Xenomorph, which relentlessly hunts the player throughout the game.

The game’s AI-driven Xenomorph makes every encounter unique and terrifying. It learns from the player’s actions, adapting to hiding spots and sound cues. With limited resources and no way to kill the creature, stealth is key. Other threats, like hostile androids and humans, add more tension, but the Xenomorph remains the ultimate nightmare.

While Alien: Isolation excels in horror, it isn’t perfect. It approximately takes 20+ hours to get 100% Achievement Completion. For most completionists, this isn’t a lot. But the rarest achievement, beating the game without dying, can lead to serious frustration with a lot of backtracking and instant deaths from the Xenomorph.

Overall, Alien: Isolation is a terrifying and immersive survival horror experience that stays true to the Alien legacy. Its tense atmosphere, intelligent AI, and stunning sound design create a feeling of dread. While its length and constant frustrations may not be for everyone, it delivers one of the most gripping horror experiences in gaming.

One of the greatest survival horror games ever made! The Alien's AI is brutal—especially impressive considering the game's release date. It can feel a bit repetitive toward the end, but since the game isn’t too long, it manages to stay engaging. I’m really excited for the sequel! 🤪

8.5/10 An Amazing Experience If You Love Horror Games
Things I Love About This Game is:
- Amazing Audio, Music, And Sound (It was so good and it would keep you tensed up and scared)
- Atmosphere (Made You Feel Like Your Actually In A Movie, And The Environment made you scared)
- Xenomorph (The AI was so GOOD! I loved how the Alien tracks you, and adjusts to your play style always keeping you on your toes, making you think outside of the box. We need more of this in future horror games)

Things I Dislike About It:
- Flamethrower (Alright HERE ME OUT! The flamethrower took the horror from 100% - 20%. Once you unlock it, the alien is not even scary, You just shoot it a couple times at the alien and it runs away, yes it can still kill you even if you shoot it but at least you can defend yourself, but it RUINS IT. I like how before unlocking the flamethrower, the first phases was sorta like Outlast where your defenceless and that's what makes it horrifying! You have to craft distractions, make your way around, feeling tense and scared if the alien comes due to its high intelligent AI, was perfect. If you add a gun or anything that can hurt the enemy, it ruins it unless they do it well like Resident Evil 7.)
- Game dies down a bit after the first phase (The story eventually gets kinda boring, and the game starts to die down and but it was overall still a great experience)

Overall is it worth the full price? Absolutely. But usually it goes on sale and I got it for roughly $12 with tax, so if you haven't played this game and your willing to adventure into the best AI for a monster, buy this game.

This is a really fun game. Admittedly this game is a fun kind of difficult on normal difficulty, but unforgiving to a casual play through on the harder runs. Point is if you like the alien franchise and being scared this game will not disappoint. Additionally, this game still looks really good.

What more is there to say? One of the greatest games ever made. True in every facet to its source material - difficult - frightening - we should be so lucky as to get another game like in in our lifetimes. One of my favorite games of all time.

Till date, the best in game AI boss you have a tough time getting away from.

It was an incredible experience. Very interesting and tense story, gorgeous atmosphere and sounds, nice main character, good gameplay. Alien may seem annoying, but if you use everything the game offers, everything goes quite smoothly. Is it a good horror game? Probably. It was very tense, but I wouldn't say “scary” exactly. Either way as a game, it's a great project. I definitely recommend it.

What an amazing surprise of a survival horror game!!! Very very atmospheric and very scary.

It should be one liner positulive review but just to tell you. This game have very huge spike in difficulty. Alien be like
Normal : thats locker goes shakey shakey maybe i shouk lookey lookey, nah better not
Hard : F*** you, i F***ing know where youre, im just pretend not to, because F*** YOU

Great horror game. Only game anywhere close to replicating is Amnesia the Bunker, but it doesn't have the perfect atmosphere Alien Isolation does.

Ive been playing this game via xbox for so long and have actively enjoyed the experience. Now that I know its getting a sequel and after seeing romulus, id recommend this game to anyone who wants a good scare.

As someone who pretty much grew up on the Alien films, comics and games, this is a great survival horror-style love-letter to the first 1979 movie and overall, a tribute to the franchise. Legitimately the only game that has given me nightmares (in a good way, haha), that I can remember. And it also shows that you don't necessarily need a Pulse Rifle and Marines to make an Alien game, although I love those types games as well of course!

It honestly took me a bit to get into AI because I didn't understand how it wanted me to play. Some humans are completely hostile and shoot on sight, and often there isn't many places to hide. Normally I play stealth games nonlethally, but it was simply too frustrating so I decided to kill everyone I came across by baiting them out one by one and using the wrench, or luring out the alien to do the work for me.

A tense and atmospheric survival horror game that really nails the feeling of being hunted. It does an amazing job capturing the look and feel of the original film, with fantastic sound design and environments that keep you on edge. The Xenomorph is unpredictable and relentless, making every encounter a real challenge.

While the game can feel a bit long and sometimes frustrating due to its difficulty, the tension and immersion make up for it. If you enjoy slow-burn horror with a constant sense of dread, this is definitely worth playing.

If you love the Alien movies you will love this game. Beautiful graphics and sounds, fun fact: the development team got permission to use sound samples from the Alien series. When you play this game you feel like you are in an Alien movie, it is not for the faint of heart. This is one of my favorite games of all time, just because of how scary it was to play through the whole thing, especially on hard difficulty. I would recommend that anyone who pick up this game try and complete it, because it feels truly fulfilling.

kind of incredible but the ending felt very weirdly abrupt, like i just went through all that and then bam its over

i like it a lot! the art direction on this game is incredible, and i absolutely love that everything makes use of in-world objects rather than a more normal HUD approach

every now and then there would be a section or two that felt unfair or frustrating, but for the most part i'd say this is really well balanced and overall just a great horror experience (though a few extra auto-saves would probably still go a long way)

Very fun game, 17 hours to beat it. dlc included.
Hard is brutally difficult, I'd recommend easy if you want a more relaxed experience.

Alien: Isolation is one of the best horror games I’ve ever played. It’s incredibly scary and I’ve honestly had to take breaks while playing cause things are so tense. The atmosphere is just amazing. It captures the feeling of the first Alien movies incredibly well. At no point did I feel like things were out of place or didn’t fit.

Sevastapool is a great setting, it looks amazing, andI think it balances horror and exploration well. I love the feeling of looking out at the giant planet it’s orbiting, it’s just great. The Xenomorph is a fantastic enemy, but everyone knows that already. It has great design and it’s AI makes the game challenging while not being completely unfair.

The gameplay (on harder difficulties) can be extremely unforgiving at times. Some missions have long stretches without a save point, and one small mistake can easily lead to death. However, I like that aspect of the game. Sure it can definitely be infuriating having to redo a big part of a mission cause of a small mistake, but I honestly think that adds to the game. You have to strategize and plan on how to get to certain places, and when that plan inevitably goes up in flames you have to think on the fly and use the tools available to you to escape.

The story is overall good, although it’s not perfect. It has some great high points: for example one mission ties in very well to Alien, and another takes the concept of Aliens and turns the horror-element up to eleven. However, I thought some parts of the plot were a tad bit contrived and I thought the ending was a bit confusing/lackluster (although maybe that will be cleared up in Alien: Isolation 2?). However with that said, I don’t think it diminishes the rest of the game.

Also I just have to praise the sound design, especially of the Xenomorph. The absolute dread you feel when you hear it start stomping towards you is fantastic. Hearing it scuttering about in the vents while you’re sneaking around, or realizing that it has decided to drop out of a vent right in your path is great.

All in all, Alien: Isolation is a fantastic game if you like horror or the Alien franchise. It is extremely scary, and has great references and tie-ins to the first 2 Alien movies. If you have ever wanted to know how it feel to hide from a Xenomorph in a small cramped locker, all while screaming for your life, this is the game for you.

Slight bugs at times, but other than that extremely good. Immersive, clever, and faithful to the series. A true story of an indomitable will versus insurmountable odds. I hope Ripley gets a long retro-futuristic vacation after this one.

I play Alien franchise games since childhood. The fans knows that no software house or publishers had the talent to let this franchise really shine in one game.
This until Alien Isolation was released.
Finally some talented people have realized what I am proud to call a Masterpiece.
The most accurate phrase I could use to describe this game and "Alien Essence" in general could be: A Prey that escapes from it's Hunter.
Walking through Hallways, in low-light conditions with sound of metal scraps clinging together meanwhile you hear THAT sound not-so far away.. you get eaten inside by anxiety and pareidolia kicks in to let you survive.
This is exactly how this game let you feel.
For the same reason it does give you a big sense of accomplishment when you get things done.
Feel it on your own skin!

In addition "Last survivor" mode is a tribute to Alien Fans.

[ PS: I played this game and finished few times on my Xbox (2016-2018) so I recently got it also for PC]

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🔲 Stunning
✅ Visual Masterpiece

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🔲 Nothing special
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✅Very good
🔲 Try not to get addicted

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🔲 Bad
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✅ Beautiful
🔲 Masterpiece

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🔲 Potato
🔲 Decent
✅ Fast
🔲 High-end PC
🔲 Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

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🔲 Just press a bunch of buttons
🔲 Easy
🔲 Significant brain usage
🔲 Easy to learn / Hard to master
✅ Difficult
🔲 Dark Souls

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🔲 None/Not important in this game
🔲 Bad
🔲 Average
🔲 Great
✅ Well written
🔲 One of the best i've had the pleasure of playing

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🔲 Free
🔲 Cheap
🔲Under priced
✅ Acceptable price
🔲 Overpriced
🔲 Complete waste of money

---{ Bugs }---
🔲 Never heard of
✅ Minor bugs
🔲 Can get annoying
🔲 Bugpocalypse: Proceed with caution


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If you like First Person Horror games, and think that nothing gets your belly upset, than I challenge you to play this game by night, Headphones and Vr sets on.

Pros

-Best Alien Franchise game (Still as of 2025)
-Immersive Atmosphere and audio
-Engaging and well written story
-Well designed gameplay
-Extra game modes

Cons

-Could result into frustration
-Anxiety could build up a lot if sensible

It's a slow cooker of a game, getting through to the exciting parts especially in VR did kind of bore me. Once you get there you realize the build was important and the game is amazing going forward. I still haven't beat the entire game but it's a yes from me dawg, recommended 10/10 due to getting on sale with all DLC for $10. I would probably be more inclined to give it an 8/10 if I paid full price for it.

It feels like being inside an alien movie from the 80's (AKA the good ones). That guarantees amazing atmosphere and very interesting world in which you would clearly not want to live.

Had a ton of fun with this. Its not perfect (lip sync is terrible, some item uses overlap, map layout could be more clear, audio bugs) but overall a really fun,atmospheric,cinematic, immersive experience that drags you into the alien universe. Cannot wait for the sequel!

I enjoyed how scary the games was with the cat and mouse mechanic. The environmental design was also amazing.

Really solid game. Solid gameplay loop, great physics, unforgiving AI, amazing character design. Definitely worth your time.

The most scariest game you'll play, i recommend playing easy on your 1st go.
the story is brilliant, I'm a big Alien fan and i have watched every movie multiple times this game is a perfect addition to the franchise. 10\10

I was always nervous to try this Alien game considering how previous Alien games were underwhelming. However, I absolutely LOVE this take on the Alien franchise. The atmosphere is so properly set, the characters are well developed and acted out, the mechanics are spot on, and the aesthetic is spot on for this franchise. If you love being scared sleep-less, enjoy a good story, and love the Alien movies, I totally recommend this game. 10/10

Last played was in 2018 and I played this game twice. First time was vanilla and the second time was modded. The game is the epitome of what an Alien game should be. I still recall encountering a pretty rough bug when I first played that made me restart from my last save (wasn't a big deal). The game is a masterpiece and an homage to true Alien fans.

This game is hands down one of the greatest blast from the past feeling from the old tech, the atmosphere, the tension it does it all. the game difficulties are honestly some of the best balancing I've see in a long time. Want the story play easier want to actually feel hunted hard, want to be made of paper mache so you have to be perfectly coordinated and lucky, Nightmare maybe your thing.

Timeless, even over ten years later. Every playthrough feels fresh and just as scary as the last.

I've always loved the alien series and this game nails the feel and aesthetic of the movies.
That being said it took myself 4 years to beat this game. It was scary, frustrating, intense and such an awesome story. Shout out to the team that made this. Thank you. I won't lie by the end of the game I wanted it to be over but that's only because I was mentally exhausted.

Probably the most satisfying game to delete from my hard drive right next to the last two resident evil. If you're expecting a shooter then look elsewhere, also try to be immersed into the game, makes the gameplay more enjoyable.

I saw the alien for the first time and closed the game.

That was 3 years ago.

7.5/10

One of the scariest game I've ever played. Played this after Dead Space 1, it really delivered. I highly recommend it, even if you never watched Alien. it got me into the franchise

fun and scary! its awesome getting to run around on the ship.

Played with the MotheVR mod and it's better than most full VR games. Only downside is some hacking games are broken. Use an xbox controller because my god the Oculus controls are wonky.

Spent most of my time under the tables, or in the cupboards while my heart rate shot to 124BPM

10/10 Would absolutely play again

Great game! Highly recommended for any fan of survival or the Alien movie. It's quite a roller coaster where every time you get close to survival, something else happens without it feeling like a plot contrivance. Only nitpick is that the sometimes the AI behaved quirky and broke immersion.

Boring after a short while. You run away from the alien that has god mode enabled and you can't even scare him off, let alone hurt him. Also the difficulty is insane, even for easy mode.

I have had this game in my library since release and have started and stopped it many times since because I couldn't handle how scary the alien was but I managed to make it through finally and I am in love with it. This game has such an amazing atmosphere and aesthetic. I really appreciate how the Alien movies and game do an amazing job of making things feel futuristic but retro at the same time. The computer and terminal systems, the elctronics and gadgets, the space ship and the keycards. I can't believe there isn't more physical merchandise. I enjoyed it so much that I ordered a physical keycard on Etsy as well as tshirts and other memorabilia on Amazon. I wish there was more official game merch, I really can't get enough of it.

this game is absolutely terrifying. i've played a lot of survival horror games and this experience if very unique. the concept of mr.X on steroids is so terrifying. you can't kill it, you can't outrun it. it can follow you anywhere there are no 'saferooms' and it adapts to your playstyle. it's very stressful that i had to take breaks in between missions because i'm always on high alert evading the alien.

i'd recommend watching the 1st two alien movies before playing this, it's not necessary but it will improve your experience and understanding of the lore

I recommend it but, it stopped being fun around 30 hours. With the end of the game making me traverse the ship back and forth. I'll be reducing the difficulty to easy just to finish it. It's a game that just seems to not end.

For a game that is already several years old, Alien: Isolation offers impressive graphical quality. The detailed visual representation creates an immersive atmosphere that deeply draws the player into the Alien universe. The soundtrack is flawless. The excellent sound effects and the atmospheric music significantly contribute to the game's dense and tense atmosphere. Anyone looking for a new kind of horror experience or open to innovative approaches should definitely give Alien: Isolation a chance.

Alien Isolation was one of the first survival horror games I've played and upon completing it I can say that's definitely worth it. It was interesting to follow a story set some time after the original Ridley Scott's movie. The stealth aspect of the game is implemented quite good - there are more than enough objects throughout the game where you can hide and sneak undetected. I also appreciated the crafting system - by collecting different materials and finding certain schematics Ripley crafts noisemakers (very useful by the way), molotovs (to kill androids and scary Xenomorphs off), EMP mines (to stun androids) etc. Playing the game on the hardest difficulty setting is quite an experience (but still, if you have enough patience, you'll even have enough crafting materials and can beat it without dying once). I've played on Hard and the Alien was hard to predict, thus I reloaded my previous saves quite frequently.

As I've already written in the beginning, the game is definitely worth the time. I'd recommend to wait for a discount and buy it on sale, which would be much cheaper.

A very cool and atmospheric horror game that puts emphasis on constant tension rather than jump scares. For most of the game you are being hunted by a xenomorph and have to be quiet and patient, even when you don't actively see it in the vicinity.

Visually it's incredible, apart from a few minor bugs it has aged incredibly well, this doesn't feel like a 2014 release at all!
It can get kinda slow at times, but overall I enjoyed it a lot!

8/10

Stealth games almost always boil down to 3 things

1. Standing still and waiting (WOW SO FUN)
2. Trial-and-error, going the same route over and over again hoping it works this time around.
3. Random chance, literally luck based on enemy placement and behavior when you spawn.

There is no skill to stealth. It isn’t fun, it isn’t tense, it’s just tedious.

Some will argue that the stealth amplifies the horror because you can’t kill the alien so all you can do is hide from it. Yeah, after reloading a save point and replaying the same hiding section multiple times, the horror becomes replaced by frustration and boredom real fast.

Almost ALL of the weapons are useless outside of the flamethrower, bolt gun, and Molotov. There is no sense of progression outside of finding new ways to open doors.

It also has sections where all you do is hold the joystick forward and move at a literal snail’s pace until you get to a location and press the A button. Textbook definition of a walking simulator. It also doesn’t help that the game is full of quick-time events like pulling levers.

Is it scary at least? No. The alien only has a handful of kill animations that go on for way longer than they need to, quickly making them boring to sit through. And no, good graphics don’t translate to horror. I’ve played pixellated games scarier than this.

The story: Ripley’s daughter goes looking for her and finds a voicemail. You’re welcome. I saved you 14 hours.

If I had to find something positive to say, the game is well optimized. I never had any performance issues, and that’s more than I can say for a lot of Steam Deck verified games. So it definitely earns that check mark.

very fun horror with great jumpscares and dramatic moments. definitely worth the money. my advice is to wait until it goes on sale (which it does very often) to save the most money though.