Skip to content
Where you playSwitch 258 gamesChange
Show only games on

Every platform

One choice opens that part of the site: its own pages for every kind of horror. Pick several to see the games on any of them.

Clear

Games Like Alien: Isolation: One Hunter You Cannot Kill

Alien: Isolation puts Amanda Ripley on a failing space station with one alien that hears you, learns your habits and cannot be killed. These games share its fear of a single hunter you can only hide from, and many keep its isolated stations, bases and retro-futurist machines.

The games

7 of the 10 games in this guide are not on Switch and are left out. Show them all.

  1. SOMA key art: a battered diving-suit robot with glowing lights beside a woman's face pressed to a wet glass window PsychologicalSOMAFrictional's sea-floor station where half-machine things stalk the corridors and you can only hide and run.
  2. Monstrum key art: a hulking orange-lit monster with a glowing face fills a dark ship corridor SurvivalMonstrumOne of three monsters you cannot fight stalks a randomly built cargo ship.
  3. The Thing: Remastered key art: soldiers in snow parkas charge forward under a huge snarling, misshapen dog-like creature in red and blue light Sci-fi horrorThe Thing: RemasteredAntarctic outposts after John Carpenter's film, never sure which teammate is the alien.

Amnesia: The Bunker is the closest in how it hunts you: one creature stalks a First World War bunker by sound, and every noise you make, from a dynamo flashlight to a gunshot, can draw it to you. SOMA, from the same studio, moves to a research station on the sea floor where half-machine things stalk the corridors and you can only hide and run. Monstrum puts one of three monsters on a randomly built cargo ship, and Still Wakes the Deep strands you without a weapon on a 1975 oil rig in a storm, its crew remade into hunters.

For more of the Alien universe, Alien: Rogue Incursion is built for VR, with a motion tracker chirping in your hand as Xenomorphs move through the vents. ROUTINE keeps Isolation's retro-futurist look on a silent lunar base built to an 80s idea of the future, where machines hunt you and you move without map markers.

The cold works as well as space. The Thing: Remastered returns to the Antarctic outposts of John Carpenter's film, never sure which of your squad is the alien, and FROSTBITE: Deadly Climate, free on Steam, leaves you in a powerless arctic base that you are not alone in, while the cold drains you.

With friends, CRYO sends up to four technicians into abandoned Antarctic labs full of mutated creatures, and Species: Unknown has up to four mercenaries track an intelligent monster aboard a derelict spaceship with a motion tracker.

If you only try one, play Amnesia: The Bunker for the closest hunter, or SOMA for the station and the story.

Questions

What games are like Alien: Isolation?

Amnesia: The Bunker, SOMA and Monstrum share its single hunter you cannot kill; ROUTINE shares its retro-futurist station.

Is there a new Alien horror game?

Alien: Rogue Incursion is a VR horror game set in the Alien universe, with a motion tracker and Xenomorphs in the vents.

Are there co-op games like Alien: Isolation?

CRYO and Species: Unknown both put a team of up to four against creatures in isolated bases or ships.

More horror games by kind

Other guides