Alien: Isolation 2014

Is it still worth playing?

Creative Assembly's 2014 first person survival horror game, set on the station Sevastopol in 2137, fifteen years after the first Alien film, where you play Amanda Ripley across nineteen missions. The threat is a single Alien that cannot be defeated. It hunts by sight or sound instead of following a fixed path, and its behaviors unlock over time. So you hide, in lockers or under tables, and a flashlight or the motion tracker raises the chance that it finds you. Resources are thin: ammo is limited, items are crafted, and fire only makes it retreat for a while. Even saving is a risk, since you save at terminals with an access card, in a three second pause in which you can still be killed. A creature driven by systems rather than scripts still turns every room into a risk today.