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Alien: Isolation

2014 · Creative Assembly · ~20h to finish

It barely tests your hands at all and is one of the most punishing games here anyway: saving takes ten seconds at a fixed terminal and can be interrupted, so every stretch of progress is a bet you are choosing to hold.

horrorsurvivaladventurePCPlayStation 5Xbox SeriesNintendo SwitchMobileMetacritic 81
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty5.4STEEP

Real resistance. Expect to work for it.

Price on Steam

$39.99

USD · United States · checked 2h ago

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Punishment
6.7
Reaction
5.5
Strategy
5.5
Obscurity
5.3
Learning Curve
4.2
Puzzle
2.8
Execution
2.7
Grind
1.1
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Reaction drops 0.7 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Punishment drops 0.7 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 2.1 points off, if you use them.

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Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 20% · ~3hPunishment

    the save system that turns every ten minutes into a wager

    11
  2. 50% · ~9hStrategy

    the point where the thing hunting you stops falling for what worked

    21

Assists & accessibility

0/3 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]Novice through Nightmare, the hardest removing the motion tracker HUD.

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

A first-person survival horror on a decommissioned space station stalked by a single Alien that is never scripted and never leaves, alongside androids and desperate survivors.

Where to go from here

Argue with these asks

Nearest fingerprints in the catalogue. The same demands, a different game.

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