Alien: Isolation

Fifteen years after the events of Ridley Scott's Alien, Amanda Ripley, Ellen Ripley's daughter, is searching for answers. She's an engineer working for Weiland-Yutani Corporation and discovers that the logs from USCSS Nostromo have been located and transported to Sevastopol space station. She decides to join a small crew sent by Weiland-Yutani to retrieve the data. Unbeknownst to her, the ship that found the logs reached Sevastopol with a terrifying passenger on board, one that murdered the majority of the station's population and left the survivors in fear.

Amanda is an engineer, so she can loot containers and bodies for resources and craft devices like noisemakers, smoke bombs, or Molotov cocktails to distract the enemy. Later, she acquires a flashlight, motion detector, and various weapons to defend herself against humanoid enemies – groups of hostile survivors or androids. However, Amanda is not a fighter, and each encounter should be carefully planned. Many actions take time, such as using a medpack, which requires her to stand perfectly still.

When Amanda draws attention from the alien, stealth is the only way to survive. The alien cannot be harmed, and it will kill Amanda in a single hit. In most cases, it doesn't follow a predetermined scripted route but relies on its senses to track Amanda down.

In addition to the main story mode, there's Survivor mode, where the player must escape from a specially designed map while fulfilling secondary objectives along the way, being aggressively hunted by the alien. This mode includes online leaderboards.