Screenshots & trailers
What players say
Why the number is what it is: aspect mentions counted across 299 sampled Steam reviews (268 positive / 31 negative), recent and most-helpful. Plain keyword counting, fully reproducible; nothing here is written by a machine.
What positive reviews talk about
- World & exploration16% mention it
- Story & writing13% mention it
- Visuals & art12% mention it
- Music & audio6% mention it
- Difficulty & balance6% mention it
What negative reviews complain about
- Story & writing32% mention it
- Grind & repetition13% mention it
- Difficulty & balance10% mention it
- Bugs & crashes10% mention it
- Controls & UI10% mention it
Satisfaction by hours played
Same score, different games: see how sentiment holds up the longer people play.
Under 5h
82%
45 reviews
5-15h
81%
62 reviews
15-40h
92%
137 reviews
40-100h
100%
43 reviews
100h+
100%
12 reviews
Review sentiment over time
Weekly positive-review rate (green) and review volume (bars). Dashed lines mark significant patches; the amber line is the start of the current scoring window. Hover the dots to see what drove a dip or a jump.
How this score was computed
The VGC Score is a weighted blend on a press-comparable 0-100 quality scale. Steam approval rates are first calibrated (95% positive on Steam ≈ 89.5 quality, since Steam approval skews high). Press and tracked creator reviews each count ~2x a player review and share one cap against player evidence (creator buy/skip calls pool into an approval rate, calibrated like Steam approval); all-time sentiment is capped and halved (it's context, not verdict); reviews of the current build carry the most weight when a fresh patch anchors the window; and a 'typical game' prior keeps small samples from pegging the scale. Because press reviews and Metacritic user aggregates describe the launch build, their weight decays as the game ages (3-year half-life after a 1-year grace). That's how a game that launched rough can outgrow its old reception once updates win players over. Reviews under 2h playtime (the refund window), non-Steam activations, and free copies are downweighted.
| Component | Positive | Quality (0-100) | Weight (pseudo-reviews) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Press reviews (OpenCritic) | – | 81 | 30 |
| Creator reviews (4 tracked) | – | 84 | 1 |
| All-time Steam reviews | 93% | 87 | 1000 |
| Metacritic user ratings | – | 87 | 60 |
| Post-patch Steam reviews (trust-weighted) | 93% | 88 | 115 |
| Calibration prior (typical game) | – | 72 | 50 |
Scoring window: last 30 days (no significant patch detected) · 300 reviews sampled · 329 total reviews in window · weighted 204.2 up / 14.3 down · computed 2h ago · full methodology →
Press & Creators reviews (133)
Individual verdicts from outlets we track: scored reviews first, most trusted outlets first among them. The small badge is each outlet's trust score: how well its scoring history aligns with players.
- 100
“Alien Isolation provides an utmost emotionally pulling experience, and runs flawlessly on the Nintendo Switch. The game truly is a testament to what can be done by third-party developers and porting studios.”
read full review ↗ - 70
“Missions have unclear objectives and way too much backtracking, made more frustrating by doors that go from sealed to open for no good reason and checkpoints triggered by obscure means.”
read full review ↗ - 90
“Feral Interactive has done a stellar job with this Switch port and the excellent motion controls and inclusion of all previously-released DLC only go to sweeten the deal. This is essential stuff for survival horror fans.”
read full review ↗ - 80
“Alien: Isolation succeeds in so many more ways than it fails. Everything in the game serves to make the experience tense and frightening, with the Xenomorph itself being the real star of the show. Level and sound design create a sense of paranoia not commonly felt in games like this.”
read full review ↗ - 80
- 70
“Alien: Isolation is a nice try in being the long-awaited game that Alien saga fans have been clamoring for. However, the lack of rhythm, technical issues and repetitive mechanics weigh down a game that didn't know how to materialize what was a great idea at its core. ”
read full review ↗ - 100
“Is any of this scary? Often, yes, insofar as I remained terrified of being killed and forced to replay the 30 minutes since the last save point. Mostly, it's just annoying. ”
read full review ↗ - 80
“A master of horror and terror, which brings one of the film’s greatest terrors to life in a game. If you want to be scared this game will achieve it. Though it has a few flaws it’s incredibly effective.”
read full review ↗ - 85
“It's taken over two decades, but Creative Assembly has cracked the code for what makes a great Alien game.”
read full review ↗ - 90
“Without any of the technical issues that plagued it on other systems it got released on, Alien: Isolation was, and remains, one of the best survival horror games ever made.”
read full review ↗ - 80
“For fans of the Alien series, the films, books, comics, and every other form of entertainment imaginable, Alien: Isolation is simply a must-play, given that it fits so well into the storyline that it nearly seems to be a chapter in it's own right.”
read full review ↗ - 80
“A stealth-horror game designed, with precision, to make pretty much every single activity and objective as uncomfortable and tense as possible.”
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Pure Nintendo
Slant Magazine
Nintendo Life
The Angry Joe Show
The A.V. Club
Kinglink Reviews
VGChartz
Cubed3
Pure Xbox
PC Invasion…and 121 more tracked reviews.
Patch history
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