You’d be hard-pressed to think of another sci-fi horror as influential and iconic as Ridley Scott’s Alien, the film that introduced the world to the jet-black, goop-covered murder machine known as the Xenomorph. The runaway success of the original film spurred a multi-media franchise consisting of four sequels, two prequels, last year’s interquel, two crossovers with the Predator movies, multiple comic books, and, recently, a television show, Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth.
The Alien franchise has also had a long-standing relationship with gaming, starting all the way back in 1982 with the Atari 2600 adaptation of Alien. While that was a simple, Pac-Man-adjacent game, the progress of gaming as an art form opened the door to many other interpretations of the series, from arcade shooters to dense strategy titles. But it’s not controversial to say that one game stands acid-spitting-head and shoulders above the others, as the 2014 survival horror game Alien: Isolation breathed new life into film-to-game adaptations. After a decade of effusive praise, it was announced in 2024 that the developers at Creative Assembly were in early development on a sequel — and now we finally have a teaser.
