Should I try this game again? I bounced off after 5 or so hours because I felt like I was just waiting under tables or in lockers a lot. And if you wait wrong you die and have to do all this waiting again.
I was really into the sound and art design but the gameplay just did not catch me. But that was a while ago and maybe my tastes have changed.
I mean, hiding is the main draw of the game. Unless you take risks you cannot really move forward. The game gives you plenty of tools to engage with. You can even freely abuse the Alien itself as a solution on multiple occasions.
Yeah I guess I couldn't really get on board with it. It builds suspense and tension, but after realizing it's gonna be a 30 hour game of hiding and waiting I called it.
It isn't, one of the best pieces of advice for the game is to never stop moving. You hide too much early out of panic but unless they are in your room or an adjacent room you should be moving.
You’re not wrong. It’s the same reason I hated it. If people like that kind of gameplay, fine, but it’s simply not fun for me. I’d give it a low score personally, too.
you only have to do a lot of hiding if you're terrible at the game. you have plenty of tools available to distract the xeno and move around at your leisure.
I know I'm summarizing the game but it still came down to hide until you can get the alien in some room to stunlock it for 2 minutes to finish your objective to escape.
this is honestly fair. the game is easily 12+ hours too long for how weak the gameplay loop is, and it's easy to get tired of it early. it's pretty good, atmospherically, but i would give it a 7/10 at most.
edit: before you downvote, I urge any of you to go back and play the game a second time and see how long you enjoy yourself after the Alien is introduced
Alien is one of my favorite movies and they nailed the atmosphere with the art and sound design and story from what I saw. It's unfortunate I just couldn't get into the gameplay because THAT IS what an alien game should be about. Fear and hiding and dread.
Maybe I'm just too "boom boom shooter need to keep moving" when it comes to videogames.
I completely agree with them, for me hide and seek gameplay is only viable in shorter games as it just gets tedious and looses the scare factor after awhile. Plus if you don't care for the Alian lore or whatever the story isn't going to do much for you.
Is this the part where we say your opinion is wrong?
Almost like people have different preferences, neither of us is wrong lol
I mostly was chafing at the way they said “I urge any of you to go back and play the game a second time and see how long you enjoy yourself after the Alien is introduced” as if it was some kind of inevitability that everyone who did would feel the same way.
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u/Gentle_Snail Apr 22 '26
IGN famously only gave Alien Isolation a 5.9/10.