Alien: Isolation
Developer Creative Assembly, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Alien: Isolation is a 2014 survival horror game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. Based on the Alien film series, the game is set 15 years after the original 1979 film, and follows the engineer Amanda Ripley, voiced by Andrea Deck. Amanda investigates the disappearance of her mother, Ellen Ripley, aboard the space station… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
810 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
391 positive · 39 negative
95% range 88–93%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 391 | 39 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 81 | 4 | 274 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 7 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
What players are saying
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 279 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (62,520 of 67,146 positive).
Players widely praise the game's oppressive atmosphere and terrifying AI that learns from player behavior. [1][2][3] Many call it a masterpiece of survival horror and a faithful adaptation of the original 1979 film. [4][5][6] Some reviewers criticize repetitive level design, unfair deaths, and privacy concerns. [7][8][9]
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Anti-privacy policy located at the bottom of their website (the link in the EULA section on the right of the Steam storefront does not work). TL;DR: If you are a privacy-conscious gamer, BEWARE! SEGA collects information (including location-based and other fingerprinting data) and share this personal data with marketing companies and data brokers. They also use pseudo-virus technology such as "tracking pixels" to …
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Alien: Isolation this game… man. it doesn’t try to entertain you the way most games do. it tries to make you uncomfortable, and it’s *really* good at it. you don’t feel like a hero in this. you feel like prey. the alien isn’t some scripted boss you learn and beat. it feels like it’s actually hunting you. you’ll hide, hold your breath, watch that motion tracker… and still get caught because it *learns*. that’s the …
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I've never been so happy or relieved to see the credits roll on a game in my life. Not because it's a bad game, far from it.. it's a masterpiece. It's because Alien Isolation is the most suffocating and terrifying game I've ever played. Has a bit of a slow start but once the tension starts it just never stops and very rarely gives you time to breathe. I feel like I've aged a decade during the time I've spent with …
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thought it was a stealth game. turns out it’s a panic attack simulator with lockers
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The single greatest survival horror game ever made. The initialism "AI" for Alien Isolation doesn't seem to be a coincidence, because the AI for the Xeno is truly the star of the show. The design is perfect, the sounds are also perfect... but somehow the AI itself overshadows all other elements of the Xeno because it is simply THAT GOOD. It learns from your behaviors, if you hide in lockers too much it'll start …
Summarised from 34 of the 365 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
92% of the 279 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Alien: Isolation. The complaint that keeps coming up: some find level design repetitive with too many corridors. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
In the United Kingdom, Alien: Isolation debuted at number two on the all-formats sales chart, behind only FIFA 15. According to Sega, Isolation had sold more than one million copies worldwide by January 2015. By March, it had sold over 2.1 million copies in Europe and the US, below the expectations of Sega. Critical reception for Alien: Isolation was "generally favourable", according to review aggregator Metacritic. Josh Harmon of Electronic Gaming Monthly felt that Alien: Isolation "succeeds as a genuine effort to capture the spirit of the film franchise in playable form, rather than a lazy attempt to use it as an easy backdrop for a cash-in with an ill-fitting genre." Writing for…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 810 · most liked first"does this game sell" "does that game sell" bitch, the fuck do you care. Half the best games ever made "failed to meet expectations". Shadow of the Colossus? Alien Isolation? Mirror's Edge? Is yer joy based on first week sales?? Stop doing free PR for corporations and start respecting artists
positive · AI labelView post →Mutuals interested in -Art -Splatoon -Hades (game) -Project Sekai -Musicals -Twisted Wonderland -Art -Our Life -Monster Prom -Alien Stage -Milgram -Ace Attorney -Poetry -Stardew Valley -Guilty Gear -Nintendo games
neutral · AI labelView post →A mock up of Alien as a point and click adventure game. #PointAndClick #AdventureGames #gamedev #indiegames #pixelart
neutral · AI labelView post →Popeye 3: WrestleCrazy is probably the best wrestling game ever made, because Popeye wrestles the Xenomorph from Alien.
neutral · AI labelView post →No game deserves a sequel more than Alien Isolation and I look forward to not playing it because that shit spooky
positive · AI labelView post →It is finished! ♥️🥚 (game-over art for Tifa the Alien)
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't wanna work, I just wanna play the 1997 CD-ROM point-and-click adventure game, "Bruce Coville's My Teacher is an Alien" all day
neutral · AI labelView post →I helped make a game! Size Con did a Game Jam this year and I along with a lot of other awesome people worked on a game featuring a growing Alien Queen, The Size-Queen! A tower defense game where you fend off attackers by immobilizing them and collect their size for the Queen!
neutral · AI labelView post →Don’t enter into hypersleep and miss these new additions to the Alien Collection. Now available in the in-game store.
neutral · AI labelView post →I really love the 3d models from Alien trilogy's pause menu. Lovely low poly art from an under rated video game ♥️
positive · AI labelView post →Wait a minute. Is this Alien Romulus or a Naughty Dog game?
neutral · AI labelView post →1-bit Alien point and click mockup👽🔫👩 #1bit #gameart #pixelart #Alien
neutral · AI labelView post →I reviewed Alien: Rogue Incursion: Evolved Edition. A reworked version of a VR game, it's a boring mess that stacks up against Colonial Marines and manages to come out the loser. A real shame. Read here: www.thejimquisition.com/post/alien-r...
neutral · AI labelView post →If Alien (1979) ended with the credits music from the Nintendo DS game Aliens Infestation (2011).
neutral · AI labelView post →'Alien: Isolation 2' by Creative Assembly will be powered with Unreal Engine 5 🎮 The first game used the Cathode engine
neutral · AI labelView post →જ⁀➴ 𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 😉🫰⊹ ࣪ ˖ ✮ Alien Stage x Squid Game ✮ #squidgame #squidgame2 #alienstage #ALNST #ivantill
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the end of Alien Stage and Squid Game on the same day for maximized emotional damage.
neutral · AI labelView post →Time to play Alien: 5.9. twitch.tv/linktothepabst
neutral · AI labelView post →Game over man, game over! Excuse the sweat, it’s hot. #alien #xenomorph
neutral · AI labelView post →capybara playing an arcade prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/guil... #capybara #alien
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neutral · AI labelView post →One of the iconic Amiga game covers: Alien Breed. Toothy. 💜
neutral · AI labelView post →Celebrating Alien Day this weekend? 👀 Alien: Isolation is FREE to play on Xbox Game Pass from now until Sunday! 🚨
neutral · AI labelView post →Advertisement for Alien Resurrection The Game (1998).
neutral · AI labelView post →Alien: Isolation was released 12 years ago today. And this game—which is probably the most beautiful tribute to the first movie—will soon have a sequel. So it's a good day to make this oral history of the making of Alien: Isolation available to everyone. 🖖
neutral · AI labelView post →Alien: Isolation is a Good Game.
positive · AI labelView post →i’m a few hours into Alien: Isolation… 🎮👽 this game is not only terrifying, but also insanely difficult! mind you, i’m playing on novice— a mode “EASIER” than easy! 💀 this game is not for the weak, and can be annoyingly brutal at times. crouch-walking the entire time is key. 🤣
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW GAME. YOU'RE ALIEN NOW 👽 Control a UFO, abduct animals, and find knickknacks
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's painted board game minis from Alien, Fate of the Nostromo. #nerdlings #boardgames #paintingminiatures #tabletopgames #figurepainting #miniaturepainting
neutral · AI labelView post →Our new game, Alien Deathstorm, has been revealed at Rebellion. Very excited for this one, take a look below.
neutral · AI labelView post →Luka is pregnant🗿 Alien Stage x Squid Game #squidgame #squidgame2 #alienstage #ALNST
neutral · AI labelView post →ALIEN³ PROBE 1994 GAME GEAR
neutral · AI labelView post →Played through the Derelikt demo - it's a game that is both amazingly committed to the PSX bit and also wears its influences on its sleeve (and that's not necessarily a bad thing). Lots of Doom 3, PSX Alien Resurrection, Half-Life, and Resident Evil here, and that's just the games its drawing from.
positive · AI labelView post →Alien: Isolation this game… man. it doesn’t try to entertain you the way most games do. it tries to make you uncomfortable, and it’s *really* good at it. you don’t feel like a hero in this. you feel like prey. the alien isn’t some scripted boss you learn and beat. it feels like it’s actually hunting you. you’ll hide, hold your breath, watch that motion tracker… and still get caught because it *learns*. that’s the part that messes with your head. you stop trusting your own habits…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Alien game where everything goes wrong aka we didn't read the rules properly, still we came close before the Nostromo self-destructed.
neutral · AI labelView post →We have a winner! Alien Isolation! Although I'm not sure how seriously I can take it when the scariest video game of all time is clearly Granny's Garden. One vote? Pah! 😅
neutral · AI labelView post →👽IT’S TIME TO PLAY ALIEN ISOLATION👽 Perfect game for Halloween month! This is one of my favourite horror games of ALL TIME! LETS GOO!! twitch.tv/arrontko
positive · AI labelView post →I've never been so happy or relieved to see the credits roll on a game in my life. Not because it's a bad game, far from it.. it's a masterpiece. It's because Alien Isolation is the most suffocating and terrifying game I've ever played. Has a bit of a slow start but once the tension starts it just never stops and very rarely gives you time to breathe. I feel like I've aged a decade during the time I've spent with Alien Isolation. Graphics, atmosphere, audio all top notch 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'M LIVE Y'ALL with Alien Isolation on the highest difficulty, Nightmare mode. Also this game turned 12 today! It came out 12 years ago today 😭 Twitch.tv/azhure_kylar
neutral · AI labelView post →The single greatest survival horror game ever made. The initialism "AI" for Alien Isolation doesn't seem to be a coincidence, because the AI for the Xeno is truly the star of the show. The design is perfect, the sounds are also perfect... but somehow the AI itself overshadows all other elements of the Xeno because it is simply THAT GOOD. It learns from your behaviors, if you hide in lockers too much it'll start checking them. If you use the flamethrower too much, it'll slowly become less and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is THE SCARIEST game i've ever played. ♥♥♥♥ your pants terrifying sort of scary. The atmosphere, graphics and sound design are just phenominal. Tried playing it in VR once and almost had a heart attack. Perfectly captures the essence of Alien and perfects the Xenomorph design. ~ DIFFICULTY ~ 🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it 🔲 Easy ✅ Normal 🔲 Hard ~ GRAPHICS ~ 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh 🔲 Graphics dont matter in this game 🔲 Good 🔲 Beautiful ✅ Masterpiece (Over 10 years old and still…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you’re looking for a game that actually respects the original 1979 film, this is it. It’s easily the most stressful 20 hours I’ve ever spent in a video game, but in a way that makes you want to keep coming back for more. The atmosphere is the real star here. Sevastopol Station feels alive—or rather, dying—with its clunky, lo-fi tech and flickering lights. The sound design is terrifying; hearing the heavy thud of the Xenomorph in the vents above you while you’re staring at that green CRT…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a must-play for fans of the Alien films and hardcore survival-horror enthusiasts. While the game performed poorly in both media reviews and sales, once you dig deeper, you’ll find it is an exceptionally well-crafted experience. First of all, the game shows tremendous respect for the original film’s world-building. The tight, claustrophobic spaces, oppressive color palette, the protagonist’s limited capabilities, and the fact that the Xenomorph is completely unkillable—all of these…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alien Hominid (Game Boy Advance, Tuna Technologies, 2006)
neutral · AI labelView post →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.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →thought it was a stealth game. turns out it’s a panic attack simulator with lockers
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They want to tone down the inclusivity.... in a game about different Alien and human races working together. Along with species that are all female and don't need men to reproduce.... ಠಿ_ಠ
neutral · AI labelView post →Spooky Alien Game!~ Live rn: vore.chat
neutral · AI labelView post →Anti-privacy policy located at the bottom of their website (the link in the EULA section on the right of the Steam storefront does not work). TL;DR: If you are a privacy-conscious gamer, BEWARE! SEGA collects information (including location-based and other fingerprinting data) and share this personal data with marketing companies and data brokers. They also use pseudo-virus technology such as "tracking pixels" to covertly perform these actions when it is otherwise not obvious that these…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A phenomenal game that achieves two things simultaneously: captures the spirit of Ridley Scott’s Alien and still stands on its own as a memorable survival horror experience. It'll hit your nervous system like crack. Graphically, it has aged like wine. As a technical product, it had no issues, which is rare. However, my favourite parts were the atmosphere and the use of the original soundtrack. I couldn't finish my first playthrough because it scared me so much. Years later, I've revisited it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Advertisement for Alien Resurrection The Game (1998).
neutral · AI labelView post →🎃 SPOOKY STREAM SATURDAY 🎃 Continuing my playthrough of Alien Isolation. GAME OVER MAN ! GAME OVER! twitch.tv/arrontko
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve always felt that space horror games can be especially scary because you’re facing something unknown and don’t really know how to deal with it. After finishing Resident Evil Requiem, the horror there didn’t feel strong enough, so I decided to take a chance and finally go back to this game that had been sitting in my library for years. That feeling of facing something unknown is something this game does really well. In most horror games the tension usually fades once you understand the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't think the words I could give would properly give the game the justice it deserves, but I'm gonna try my best. Alien Isolation is a modern horror classic plagued by review bombs upon launch. 11 years later at the time of this review, this game holds up extremely well for a game that was released in 2016. This game, many years later, tackled adapting the Alien franchise into being scary once more, and put aside the "run and gun" and shoot 'em up game style, and opts in for a more…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not sure how new this is, but there's now an official Heiankyo Alien website with a free playable version of the original game: www.heiankyo-alien.com/en/gameplay ...it's got an online co-op mode for up to 6 people? (Info via @gamepresint.bsky.social)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Ultimate Piss your Pants game. I've played lots of horror/survival horror games over the years, but Alien: isolation is by far the most oppressive, and overall terrifying game I think I've ever played. The game slowly builds up the terror and makes it hit when it matters, It has amazing level of detail for a 2014 game, which is extremely impressive even now. Yea if your a fan of survival horror play this game, and play on hard for the intended changing of pants.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We’re talking all things ALIEN today! I’ve got some early footage for Alien: Isolation 2, and then we starting a fresh playthrough of the first game! This is genuinely the scariest game ever pls come hold my hand thru it twitch.tv/library_fairy
positive · AI labelView post →The only game I've played where the stress was so much that it made my chest hurt. Having to take multiple breaks during my initial playthrough. Pausing the game and getting up and walking around the house. This game is the definition of stress inducing terror.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yes, I called the new ALIEN RPG cinematic 'Operation Leading Edge' as a homage to publishers of the original ALIENS RPG, Leading Edge Games. It suits the nature of the adventure and works as a fond throwback; even though the game system wasn't great it was my only source of ALIENS info at the time.
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