As in Alien, there’s only one Xenomorph (at least for most of the roughly 20 hours of gameplay). Isolation follows the lead of survival-horror descendants like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Clock ...

Instead, Alien: Isolation harkens back to the survival horror template of the genre’s heyday. The stalking, creeping Xenomorph, a marvel of contemporary artificial intelligence in gaming, cannot be ...

The kind of game you want to pick next will somewhat depend on the elements of Alien: Isolation that you enjoyed, as there’s naturally no other game that’s an exact copy of it. Instead, here are some ...

The best horror games terrify players with imposing monsters who hunt them down in heart-pounding chase sequences. Ao Oni and Pyramid Head are iconic monsters that induce fear with their haunting ...

Across the many stories set in the Alien universe, there’s evidence to suggest the xenomorphs are part of some kind of hivemind that, at some level, operates as a collective consciousness. The same ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Alien: Isolation celebrated its 10-year anniversary on October 6, 2024. Below, we reexamine how the despite its great ideas, the game may not have ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. There's something specific about Ridley Scott's 1979 movie Alien that makes it such an enduring classic. With the combination of its heavy focus on ...

Kelcie Mattson is a Senior Features author at Collider. Based in the Midwest, she also contributes Lists, reviews, and television recaps. A lifelong fan of niche sci-fi, epic fantasy, Final Girl ...