Alien: Isolation sequel bursts into existence, 10 years after original
The Alienfranchise is about uncaring monsters, unfeeling corporations, and horrific, claustrophobic terror. Given this setting, it almost made sense, what happened to the original Alien: Isolation.
The game was released to positive reviews, is now considered one of the best games ever made, and sold more than 2 million copies within its first few months. Despite this, Isolation only got "close to break-even or just about in the black," then-Creative Assembly studio director Tim Heaton told GamesIndustry.biz a year after release. With the rapid evolution of AAA game development, that wasn't enough. And so, like a salvage team diverted to a bio-weapon recovery mission, Isolation and its momentum were seemingly abandoned.
Gameplay and review accolades for Alien: Isolation, released 10 years ago today.Abandoned, that is, until today, the 10th anniversary of that game's 2014 release. The appropriately named Al Hope, creative director of Isolationstudio Creative Assembly, posted on X (formerly Twitter) that his team had "heard your distress calls loud and clear," and could confirm that "a sequel to Alien: Isolationis in early development."