It’s hard to believe it has been over a decade since the release of Alien: Isolation. No Alien game since then has matched the intensity of its survival horror focus. Slowly creeping around a space station, only to be ambushed by a Xenomorph and engage in a cat-and-mouse chase in hopes of survival, is an exhilarating experience that no other Alien game has quite been able to achieve. Unfortunately, Sega and Creative Assembly did not immediately start work on a follow-up; it was only this year that we learned a sequel is in the works.
That Alien: Isolation sequel is still years away at this point, but thankfully, a different Alien game is here for players looking for another Xenomorph-filled first-person shooter. It’s a new VR game from Survios called Alien: Rogue Incursion, and it’s your best bet for that Alien horror short of replaying the original Alien: Isolation as we wait for its sequel.
Alien: Rogue Incursion | Story Reveal TrailerRogue Incursion follows Zula Hendricks, a Colonial Marine who’s defecting with her synthetic android, Davis, in the hopes of exposing the evil Wayland-Yutani corporation. The game begins with them crash-landing at a remote black site where they have a contact, only to find it completely decimated by Xenomorphs. Rogue Incursion follows Hendricks and Davis as they thoroughly explore the Gemini Exoplanet Solutions research facility to discover its hidden Wayland-Yutani secrets and fight any Xenomorphs they encounter along the way.
Recommended VideosLike Isolation, Rogue Incursion is a tense first-person horror game where players see the destruction that Xenomorphs leave behind firsthand before fighting the alien threat head-on. Survival horror befits Alien as a franchise more than any other game genre, with a first-person perspective being particularly effective in VR as I have more control over where to look or how to interact with objects I encounter.
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