In this live service era, it's not that strange to spend years playing a single game, but alongside my various online timesinks there has been one anomaly: a staunchly singleplayer, offline horror game. Alien: Isolation just turned 10, and for this entire time I've been trying very hard to muster up the courage to finish it. After a decade of sweating and yelling I finally did it, only a couple of weeks ahead of Sunday's anniversary.
Back in 2014 I joked that it was going to take me forever to get to Alien: Isolation's credits, but I didn't actually think I'd be chipping away for this long. I also didn't expect it to so perfectly capture the atmosphere of the first and greatest Alien movie, nor the behaviour and terror-inducing effectiveness of the titular xenomorph.
