The game appeared in multiple 'Best of' lists and won several year-end awards, including Best Audio at the 2015 Game Developers Choice Awards and Audio Achievement at the 11th British Academy Games Awards.

The game's retro-futuristic art direction, sound design, and artificial intelligence were highlighted positively, while its characters and unforgiving gameplay received some criticism. Several downloadable content packs were released for the game, some of which relive scenes from the original film.Īlien: Isolation received generally positive reviews from critics and sold over two million copies by May 2015. Creative Assembly intended to make Alien: Isolation a third-person game, but ultimately used first-person to create a more intense experience. The game runs on an engine built from scratch to accommodate the Alien's behaviour and technical aspects such as atmospheric and lighting effects. The game places an emphasis on stealth and survival horror gameplay, requiring the player to avoid and outsmart a single Alien creature with tools such as a motion tracker and flamethrower.Īlien: Isolation was designed to resemble the original Alien film rather than its more action-oriented 1986 sequel Aliens, and features a similar lo-fi, 1970s vision of what the future would look like. Based on the Alien film series, the game is set 15 years after the events of the original 1979 film Alien, and follows engineer Amanda Ripley, daughter of Alien protagonist Ellen Ripley, as she investigates the disappearance of her mother. Action-adventure, stealth, survival horrorĪlien: Isolation is a 2014 survival horror video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega originally for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

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