Alien: Isolation

Aboslutly amazing game. Great story and graphics. On the right settings you can play it on low-end PCs with 40+ FPS

The only good "AI" in 2026.

do NOT ask me about sevastopol's safety procedures

my favourite game of all time. there will never be another horror game like this. i hope isolation 2 is just as incredible

[b]2 hours in and I already understand why this game is called Isolation.[/b] Because apparently my preferred strategy is isolating myself inside a locker and refusing to come out. This game is over a decade old and somehow still has better atmosphere than most modern horror games. Sevastopol feels disgusting, abandoned and completely unsafe. The lighting, retro-futuristic computers, alarms, vents and sound design make the whole station feel like it was ripped directly out of the original Alien. And then the Xenomorph shows up. This thing does not feel like a normal videogame enemy. You cannot memorize one patrol route and casually walk around it. It searches, reacts, disappears into vents, comes back when you think you're safe, and generally behaves like it has a personal problem with you. The motion tracker is especially evil. [b]BEEP.[/b] Okay. [b]BEEP BEEP.[/b] Maybe I should hide. [b]BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP.[/b] Locker. Immediately. I also love that the game doesn't turn Amanda Ripley into some action hero mowing down aliens. You're underpowered, constantly scavenging, and most encounters are solved through hiding, distracting or running like your life insurance just expired. It's slow, stressful and absolutely not instant-gratification horror. That's exactly why it works. [h1]9/10 so far[/h1] [b]Beautiful atmosphere. Incredible AI. Fantastic Alien adaptation.[/b] [i]I have spent an unreasonable percentage of my playtime inside furniture.[/i]

I have a love-hate relationship with this game but I guess it's more of a hate... I love Aliens theme and everything about them and the game has a precise and beautiful graphic fidelity that matches the movies. Even the atmosphere of the indomitable Alien is absolutely great you can't hide from his adaptive AI even in the most musty room. But what really ruins the game in my opinion is a very stretched playing time which in certain passages really disrupts the atmosphere of the given moment because instead of one unexpected situation the game will often gives you several at once and instead of intuitively/fluent solving the mission/task you confusedly run around in the space station there and back again until you literally hard-work your way through the game...

A masterpiece. A love letter to the first Alien film. One of the greatest Alien games ever made. One of the greatest horror games of my time. IGNorant giving this a 5.9 is a crime against gaming.

Like many other people, I really wanted to like this game. And while there are some good moments, they are completely eaten away by some very bad choices. Graphics are great, but design is boring; white corridors with computers and lockers, over and over again. Half of deaths felt undeserved and random. The game has only one puzzle - go to the other side of the station, play a mini game to open the door, pull the switch, get back, don't get killed by Alien in the process... Now repeat 50 more times... Some games are known to have unsatisfying endings, but this one must be number one (spoiler: it just ends, goodbye). And, worst of all, this game seriously overstays its welcome. Needless to say I haven't touched the DLC. The reason people like this game is because of Xenomorph, and we all like Xenomorph. Let's face it, if it was some other entity, game wouldn't do nearly as well as it did.