Alien: Isolation is the scariest horror game ever made, and it both surprises and baffles me how, since it launched way back in 2014, nothing has come close. Creative Assembly set a new standard for the genre, but it seems it was too high a standard. No developer, no matter how talented, has managed to match it in terms of pure, nerve-shredding terror—and I don't think anyone ever will. Isolation increasingly feels like a true one-off. A singular, special moment in video games that will never truly be replicated. But why does it work so well?
It's such a travesty that we don't have Alien Isolation 2.
Alien Isolation is a great game, but it's not the end all be all since its release. We've had many great horror games come out since.
Critics did not like this one, either. I bought Callisto Protocol today. 👌
Agreed.
Yep, the best horror game I've ever played. I can't think of a close 2nd. Dead Space I guess, but that's a very different experience.