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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

  1. Amnesia: The Bunker art: a soldier's hands, one holding a revolver, as a pale clawed creature reaches out of a dark tunnel SurvivalAmnesia: The BunkerOne creature hunting you by sound through a WWI bunker, the closest match for Alien: Isolation's single, unkillable hunter.
  2. SOMA key art: a dripping robot head with glowing blue lights and hanging cables beside a frightened woman's face and hand pressed to wet glass PsychologicalSOMAFrictional's sea-floor station where half-machine things stalk the corridors and you can only hide and run.
  3. Monstrum key art: a hulking monster with a glowing orange face fills a dark ship corridor SurvivalMonstrumOne of three monsters you cannot fight stalks a randomly built cargo ship.
  4. Still Wakes the Deep key art: the silhouette of a man filled with the image of an oil rig, glowing over a dark sea SurvivalStill Wakes the DeepA 1975 oil rig in a storm, its crew remade into hunters by something from below, with no weapon to answer them.
  5. Alien: Rogue Incursion key art: Zula Hendricks with a rifle surrounded by Xenomorphs, a huge alien head looming above them against a starfield SurvivalAlien: Rogue IncursionBack in the Alien universe in VR, a motion tracker chirping as Xenomorphs move through the vents.
  6. Aliens: Dark Descent key art: five Colonial Marines and a drone stand in a misty blue Xenomorph hive, with open alien eggs in the foreground Sci-fi horrorAliens: Dark DescentColonial Marines sneak past a Xenomorph hive with a beeping motion tracker, and every marine lost stays dead.
  7. ROUTINE key art: a cosmonaut in a pale spacesuit holding the boxy C.A.T. device, framed by white flowers and a dark robot silhouette in front of a large full moon SurvivalROUTINEA silent lunar base built to an 80s vision of the future, the same retro-futurist look, with hostile machines hunting you.
  8. CRYO key art: the title across the red-lit glass of a frost-rimmed metal porthole SurvivalCRYOCo-op for up to four in abandoned Antarctic labs where mutated creatures chase you or hunt by sound.
  9. Species: Unknown key art: a mercenary in a sci-fi suit and helmet in a blue-lit ship corridor, with a dark creature's red eyes glowing beside them Co-opSpecies: UnknownUp to four mercenaries board an abandoned spaceship with a motion tracker and an intelligent monster to identify.
  10. The Thing: Remastered key art: soldiers in hooded snow parkas charge forward under a huge snarling dog-like creature in red and orange haze Body horrorThe Thing: RemasteredAntarctic outposts after John Carpenter's film, never sure which teammate is the alien.
  11. FROSTBITE: Deadly Climate key art: a lone figure in a bright doorway in a snowy black void beneath the icy, blood-splattered title SurvivalFROSTBITE: Deadly ClimateFree: a powerless arctic research base where you are not alone and the cold drains you, inspired by The Thing.
  12. Prey key art: Morgan Yu in a red suit and glowing helmet stands beneath a huge black, smoke-like alien shape that holds the Moon and the Talos I station SurvivalPreyA station overrun by aliens that can look like any object, so every room is a threat.
  13. Duskers art: a beam of light picks out a red A1 hatch on the dark, ribbed hull of a derelict spaceship drifting among wreckage SurvivalDuskersDark derelict ships seen through drone feeds and a motion sensor that cannot tell you what is out there.
  14. Outlast library art: a hulking scarred inmate with a stitched grin and glowing eyes stands in a dark asylum corridor, seen in green night vision SurvivalOutlastNo weapon at all: hide in lockers and under beds, as on Sevastopol, in a madhouse full of killers.
  15. Westworld Awakening key art: a cowboy and a woman holding a gun run hand in hand through a hazy red-lit desert, a tall saguaro cactus at right Puzzle horrorWestworld AwakeningHide in VR from one relentless killer host who keeps hunting you through a sci-fi facility.
  16. Dead Space key art: Isaac Clarke in his engineering suit, the helmet's slits glowing blue, in a gloomy ship corridor SurvivalDead SpaceA dead mining ship in space and a crew turned into Necromorphs, with scarce ammunition rather than none.
  17. Thermomorph itch.io cover: the green handheld monitor with a wireframe map of the ship, Motion and Heating buttons, an incoming call from System and the time 3:01 AM FNAFThermomorphFree and short: a dead crew, creatures in the halls, a motion sensor and a flamethrower until the escape pod is ready.
  18. Space Beast Terror Fright key art: a dark, foggy spaceship corridor with a sealed red blast door and blood on the wall, under the glowing blue title Co-opSpace Beast Terror FrightMarines with a motion tracker in dark spacecraft against beasts that come from every side, for one to four players.

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 was made first for VR: a motion tracker chirps in one hand and a pulse rifle sits in the other as Xenomorphs move through the vents, so it is closer to action horror than Isolation. Aliens: Dark Descent looks down on a squad of Colonial Marines instead, sneaking past the hive with a beeping motion tracker while stress builds and every marine lost stays dead. 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.

Two more keep you on a ship or station with something you cannot see coming. Prey sets you loose on Talos I, a station overrun by the Typhon, where small Mimics hide as a mug, a chair or a medkit and leap out at you, so no room is safe. Duskers strips it down to a motion sensor: alone in deep space, you steer drones through dark derelict ships by typed commands, seeing only failing camera feeds and a blip that says something is there but not what.

If it is the hiding you love, Outlast is the classic of having no weapon at all: a journalist in a madhouse with only a camcorder's night vision, hiding in lockers and under beds. Westworld Awakening does the same in VR, with one relentless killer host on your trail through a sci-fi facility.

If you want the dead ship but with a way to fight back, the Dead Space remake puts an engineer on the USG Ishimura with scarce ammunition and mining tools, cutting the limbs off a crew that keeps rising as Necromorphs.

Thermomorph is a free, small take on the film's mining ship: your crew is dead, creatures stalk the halls, and you hold out with a motion sensor and a flamethrower until the escape pod is repaired.

With friends, CRYO sends up to four technicians into abandoned Antarctic labs full of mutated creatures, Species: Unknown has up to four mercenaries track an intelligent monster aboard a derelict spaceship with a motion tracker, and Space Beast Terror Fright is the hardest of them: one to four marines in dark spacecraft, a tracker pinging what you cannot see, and an airlock to reach after setting the reactor to blow.

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 horror game in the Alien universe made first for VR, with a motion tracker and Xenomorphs in the vents. Aliens: Dark Descent is a squad tactics game in the same universe.

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.

Is Alien: Isolation on phones and Switch?

Yes. Alien: Isolation itself is on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone and Android, and has its own page on this site.

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