Magnificent space horror Alien: Isolation is free again next week on the Epic Games Store
In case you missed it first time around, Creative Assembly’s classic space horror Alien: Isolation will once again be free on the Epic Games Store next Thursday, 22nd April, with entertaining deck-building RPG Hand of Fate 2 bringing up the rear.
Alien: Isolation originally released back in 2014, offering up a delectable slice of claustrophobic first-person horror that follows Amanda Ripley’s attempts to track down her considerably more famous mum, Ellen – portrayed by Sigourney Weaver in the movies.
Soon enough, that journey takes Amanda aboard the starship Sevastopol where, would you believe it, a deadly Xenomorph is on the prowl.
The resulting action – a ceaseless game of cat-and-mouse, driven by an unscripted and terrifyingly unpredictable AI alien – is as breathlessly tense as it is wonderfully atmospheric, with Creative Assembly perfectly capturing the delightfully lo-fi 70s look of the original Alien movie. It is, in other words, well worth picking up.