Alien: Isolation
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…
Alien: Isolation is an adventure developed by The Creative Assembly, released 6 October 2014 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 21 hrs to finish.
What Alien: Isolation is
Alien: Isolation is an adventure game developed by The Creative Assembly and released in 2014. It was published by Feral Interactive. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on CATHODE.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 50 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Alien series
Alien: Isolation is the 51st of 76 entries we hold in the Alien series. It arrived 9 months after Aliens: Armageddon. The next entry was Alien: Isolation - Crew Expendable in 2014. Its critic score of 86 is 16 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Alien: Rogue Incursion at 90.
How it was received
Alien: Isolation holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 739 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 21 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 32 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 3.16Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo E8500, 4 GB RAM and 1GB (AMD Radeon HD 5550 or Nvidia GeForce GT 430). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 35GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Alien: Isolation launched on 6 October 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Bayonetta 2 and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Bayonetta 2, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Alien: Isolation yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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