There's been a lot of these survival horror games where a monster stalks you with little ability to fight back, especially since Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The original Alien film feels pretty formative for this type of video game so using the Alien license feels like a match made in heaven. As far as these types of games go, this is a pretty good one. The Xenomorph is terrifying and have a randomness to their route so you're are always on your toes even after dying and reloading. The sound design is really strong with the symphony of the alien crawling around in the vents and the beeping of your radar leaving you a nervous wreck. Sometimes you don't know whether to move or stay still when you know the alien is nearby. Outside of the alien, there's also human and android enemies which are less interesting to deal with. It's a serviceable stealth game when those segments come up. You do get a bit more means to fight back later on in the game with more aliens which feels like it was trying to reference the film sequel, Aliens. It takes place on a space station that you backtrack through and get upgrades to access new areas. Unfortunately, everything looked the exact same that I rarely knew when I was revisiting an area. The level design seemed decent but it was just very boring to traverse. I was also pretty uninterested in the story and characters. Nothing there held my attention. Alien: Isolation is a game that does one thing, i.e the stalking alien, really well while everything else is mediocre.

When someone says a game is only really worth playing for fans, it's often a backhanded comment meaning "the game is subpar, but if you want to engage with the source material have at it." While I think this game is really only for fans, I think it's punching well above its weight.

Alien: Isolation is a passion project to its core. Creative Assembly was clearly inspired in its pursuit in creating an immersive Alien game that outpaces quality of the majority of canon films and games.

The atmosphere, setpieces, and impressive Xenomorph AI all all parts of a fantastic experiences catered explicitly for fans. It's such a passion project, that I'm afraid it gets lost in the sauce and ends up being about twice as long as it needed to be.

I think that's the main critique here, there was no exercise in constraint and the game long overstays its welcome. Still, it matches the atmosphere of the original movie fantastically, and is better than the latter 4 movies in the franchise. I'm sad Creative Assembly never got to take another swing at this, because despite its misgivings, their debut FPS adventure can go toe-to-toe with Arkane and Irrational Games. SEGA royally squandered so much potential here.

Very little to complain about. Unlike many other amnesia successors it actually builds on the "helpless horror fps" formula in fun ways. decent plot, very respectful of and makes the most of the IP, looks and sounds fantastic. The game does a good job mixing up the circumstances to keep the play fresh far beyond your expectations going in. My only complaints if anything are that the tutorial sequence at the start is a bit weak, and there is a bit too much content. eventually you become intimate enough with the scripting of the AI that you're ready for the game to end but there's still a few hours left to play. That aside, it's excellent.

Also make sure grab the antialiasing addon "Alias Isolation" to make the visuals look their best.

Nunca senti tanto medo com alguma coisa, o sentimento de solidão e agonia é assustador. Acho que esse é o estilo de terror que mais me pega e realmente acaba com meu mental kkkkkkk eu tava com medo antes do alien sequer aparecer. Experiência absurda. Isso tudo é falando sobre o começo e metade da história, a sequência final do jogo é muito decepcionante. Senti que todo esse sentimento de medo desapareceu e restou um jogo de terror esquisito. Seria mais legal se a protagonista conseguisse fugir no meio do jogo ou sei lá, pro foco ser mais na experiência de ter algo te perseguindo sorrateiramente.