Stray Is The Spiritual Successor To Alien: Isolation I've Been Waiting For

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I've been waiting for 'the next Alien: Isolation' for a while now. It’s been eight years since the horror masterpiece launched, and nothing has really scratched that itch since. There's no chance of a sequel coming any time soon, leaving Isolation isolated. It's one of the best horror games and one of the best stealth games of all time, but since neither of those genres tend to sell all that well, all of its quality added up to an uninspiring financial return. Worse still, it has scared off any potential copycats - if the greatest ever to do it didn't make the big bucks, why bother ripping it off? There is one unlikely copycat (that's also a ginger cat): Stray might secretly be the spiritual successor to Isolation I've been waiting for.

Stray is not a horror game, and it's not really a stealth game either. It's also not set in space and features no alien presence, unstoppable killing machine or otherwise. All of this seems to add up to the game being nothing like Alien: Isolation (in which you play as a human, rather than a cat), but hear me out. It feels more like Alien: Isolation than any game I've played since Creative Assembly's space-horror, and it's these vibes that make it a spiritual successor. It's not like there are any other games standing up and demanding to be considered the Perfect Dark to Alien's GoldenEye.

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Stray isn't a stealth game, but it does involve a lot of running blindly and then hiding. In Isolation, you are fleeing in terror, whereas in Stray I tend to run everywhere around the open sections just for the thrill of it as a cat, but they feel the same. Video games rarely scare me. I might start at a jump scare, but that