Alien: Isolation
Worth it · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$39.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9975% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.19/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 67,485
- Critics
- 81 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 11% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 18.3h
- To 100%
- 34.1h 1.9x the story
- Finish
- 20% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 78 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.00 April 2020
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 357 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 92% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
93% start to 20% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 78 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $19.22, a level the record has reached 74 times.
Its score sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Prey ($29.99, scores 69) and Aliens vs. Predator™ ($14.99, scores 70).
More about Alien: Isolation
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 18. 10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,193 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 3,132 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I played this 17 hours now and my GOD, I love it. The horror factor is incredible... The hardest level is must play. Like in every game. You will be sweating. I played a bit Hellraiser Revival before that and it is a gory action game comparing to this.. Sweet Jesus, every step you take is potentially the last one. You move slowly, Alien moves fast. You save game on special machines, no F5 quicksave spamming. You get...
2 more reviews
What a game man. I'm sure even adults would get scared playing this , i saw a sequel coming? Gonna buy for sure
Constant fear and anxiety simulator coupled with a filthy and frustrating grain filter that devs thought would be cool and add to 80's vibe. All in all they kinda achieved that miserable and helpless feel that you get trying to survive by making another step without Alien encounter.
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About the game
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Alien: Isolation scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/214490/alien-isolationReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.