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Alien: Isolation

Action

Science fiction

Horror

Survival

Stealth

Adventure

Alien: Isolation is a survival horror game based on the Alien franchise. As Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley, you will navigate through an increasingly volatile world as you find yourself confronted on all sides by a panicked population and an unpredictable Alien. You must scavenge resources, improvise solutions and use your wits, not just to succeed in your mission but to simply stay alive. In addition to the main story mode there's Survivor mode in which the player needs to escape from a specially designed map fulfilling secondary objectives along the way, while being aggressively hunted by the alien. This mode includes online leaderboards.

4.3

External Ratings

713 ratings
Release Date:

6 Oct, 2014

Last Updated:

21 Jun, 2026

About this game

Alien: Isolation is a survival horror game based on the Alien franchise. As Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley, you will navigate through an increasingly volatile world as you find yourself confronted on all sides by a panicked population and an unpredictable Alien. You must scavenge resources, improvise solutions and use your wits, not just to succeed in your mission but to simply stay alive. In addition to the main story mode there's Survivor mode in which the player needs to escape from ...

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Storyline

Fifteen years after the events of Alien, Ellen Ripley’s daughter Amanda enters a desperate battle for survival on a mission to unravel the truth behind her mother's disappearance.

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platform

Platforms:

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch

release date

Release Date:

6 Oct, 2014

mode

Modes:

Single player

theme

Themes:

Action, Science fiction, Horror, Survival, Stealth

genre

Genres:

Adventure

perspective

Player Perspectives:

First person

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IGDB Website:

Alien: Isolation

IGDB Rating

4.3 ;
IGDB User Rating

4.3

User Rating

IGDB User Rating Count

694

User Rating Count

IGDB User Rating

86%

Rating %

Critics Rating

4.3 ;
IGDB User Rating

4.3

Critics Rating

IGDB User Rating Count

713

Critics Rating Count

IGDB User Rating

86%

Critics Rating %

Main Developers

The Creative Assembly

Supporting Developers

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Publishers

Feral Interactive

Sega

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