Alien: Isolation
Worth it · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99, a BANGER if it drops to $19.28.
- Length
- 18.3h
- Value
- $2.19/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB (AMD Radeon HD 5550 or Nvidia GeForce GT 430), 35 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.00. That was April 2020. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 76 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $19.28, a level the record has reached 72 times.
On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Space™ 2 ($3.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Prey ($29.99, scores 70).
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 12 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 13 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 3,124 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
93% start to 20% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
211 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
👽 ALIEN: ISOLATION - 5/5 ★★★ One of the best survival-horror games ever made. I've played Alien: Isolation about three times now-first around 2018 on my old PC, again around 2022, and now in 2026 on my i9-9900K / RTX 3080 Ti / 244 Hz setup. Loved it every single time. And honestly... 2014??? There are games coming out more than a decade later that don't have atmosphere, lighting, sound design or enemy AI this...
its ok and thats about it. i hate that you can't kill the damn xeno other then that i recommend it if you like being hunted by unkillable ♥♥♥♥
I was desperate to be pounded hard by the Xenomorph and now I get hard as a rock whenever I see it
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Alien: Isolation scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/214490/alien-isolationThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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