Dead Space was to games what Alien was to movies

Now available free on PC, Dead Space came closer than any other game to replicating the look, feel and atmosphere of Ridley Scott's sci-fi thriller

This week, Electronic Arts has made one of the most interesting and atmospheric narrative games of the 2000s available for free to users of its Origin gaming service. Released in 2008 and created by Californian studio Visceral Games, Dead Space remains a heady, often terrifying thrill ride and if you've never played it before, it's worth taking this chance - especially if you're a fan of the Alien movies.

Although there have been numerous attempts to bring Alien directly to video games - most successfully, Creative Assembly's incredibly tense Alien: Isolation - it's Dead Space that has got closest to replicating the look, feel and atmosphere of Ridley Scott's original film.