Games Like Alien: Isolation

Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.7%, Stealth 19.4%, Horror 17%, Survival 8.8%, First-Person 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its semi-open bunker, limited supplies, improvised tools, and an unpredictable monster create the same constant pressure of being hunted.

ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

Why similar: Aliens 16.7%, Survival Horror 16%, Stealth 14.4%, Horror 12.3%, Sci-fi 11%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person lunar-base horror game strongly channels Alien: Isolation's retro-futurist space setting, vulnerable exploration, and hostile-machine tension.

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

Why similar: Survival Horror 26.4%, Horror 25.2%, Sci-fi 14.9%, Atmospheric 8.7%, First-Person 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs first-person stealth encounters and isolated sci-fi facilities with deeply unsettling atmosphere and existential storytelling.

In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

Why similar: Aliens 14.4%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Horror 14.1%, Space 13.2%, Survival Horror 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Exploring Talos we delivers immersive-sim freedom, resource tension, shape-shifting enemies, and a richly detailed abandoned space station.

The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.

Why similar: Survival Horror 21.5%, Horror 20.4%, Space 13.9%, Aliens 12.5%, Sci-fi 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its derelict-ship setting, oppressive audiovisual design, scavenging, and desperate encounters make it a premier space-horror alternative.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

Why similar: Horror 41.6%, Survival Horror 22.8%, Stealth 9.4%, First-Person 7.4%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This foundational hide-and-survive horror game emphasizes helplessness, darkness, sanity, and avoiding monsters rather than defeating them.

Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.1%, Horror 29.1%, First-Person 8.8%, Atmospheric 6.2%, Survival 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: The first-person perspective, scarce ammunition, stalking antagonists, and grimy environmental immersion recreate Isolation's vulnerable survival feel.

Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.

Why similar: Horror 37.9%, Survival Horror 20.9%, Stealth 8.3%, First-Person 7.4%, Survival 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Alien: Isolation, it makes survival depend on hiding, carefully navigating hostile spaces, and enduring relentless pursuit.

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is a single-player horror adventure game inspired by the critically acclaimed blockbuster movie franchise. Survive in silence.

Why similar: Survival Horror 24.3%, Stealth 22.9%, Horror 17.3%, Aliens 12.1%, Female Protagonist 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its stealth systems revolve around avoiding a lethal sound-sensitive creature, producing similarly nerve-racking moments of careful movement.

Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.

Why similar: Survival Horror 37.2%, Horror 34.4%, Stealth 7%, First-Person 6.6%, Survival 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Procedurally arranged environments and multiple unkillable monsters make every escape attempt a tense exercise in stealth and improvisation.

Alien: Rogue Incursion is an all-new action-horror VR game that transforms you into ex-Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks on a dangerous mission to the uncharted planet Purdan, featuring innovative real-life motion gameplay, a whole-body loadout, and the most cunning Xenomorphs ever encountered.

Why similar: Aliens 25.6%, Survival Horror 15.3%, Stealth 14.3%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Horror 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most direct return to the Alien universe, putting you face-to-face with xenomorph threats in immersive first-person survival action.

A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!

Why similar: Horror 19.7%, Survival Horror 18.6%, Sci-fi 16.9%, Space 11.6%, First-Person 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This hostile space-station immersive sim combines tense exploration, environmental storytelling, limited resources, and a sinister AI presence.

1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.

Why similar: Horror 29.8%, Stealth 15.3%, Sci-fi 13.7%, First-Person 11.1%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It trades the space station for an isolated oil rig but delivers the same trapped-with-a-monster dread and cinematic first-person tension.

Survive to escape the horrors of Callisto and uncover the dark secrets of Jupiter’s dead moon.

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.8%, Horror 25.4%, Space 19.4%, Sci-fi 17.6%, Shooter 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its grim prison-moon setting, brutal body horror, and constrained survival combat offer a polished cinematic space-horror experience.

Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.

Why similar: Aliens 26.1%, Sci-fi 17.2%, Horror 15.7%, Stealth 14.4%, Space 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Although tactical rather than first-person, it captures the franchise's motion-tracker anxiety, dark corridors, and overwhelming xenomorph danger.

Survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship, overrun with horrific and murderous aberrations. Explore, evade and fight your way through the depths to bring the ship back to Earth. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this sci-fi horror roguelite.

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.3%, Stealth 15.9%, Horror 13.8%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Space 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelike first-person horror game centers on surviving a monster-filled colony ship through stealth, scavenging, and tense close encounters.

A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.

Why similar: Survival Horror 41.6%, Sci-fi 19%, Female Protagonist 15.6%, Atmospheric 10%, Psychological Horror 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its retro sci-fi world, constrained inventory, sparse resources, and bleak survival-horror mood are ideal for fans of atmospheric space dread.

Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.

Why similar: Survival Horror 30.7%, Horror 28.7%, Stealth 10.6%, Survival 6.3%, Atmospheric 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its punishing survival-horror pacing, limited resources, traps, and grotesque threats deliver sustained desperation despite its more action-oriented structure.

Moons of Madness is a first-person, story-driven cosmic horror game where the scientific exploration of Mars meets the supernatural dread of Lovecraft.

Why similar: Horror 28.7%, Space 20.5%, Sci-fi 18.6%, Survival 8.3%, First-Person 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its lonely Mars-base setting and escalating cosmic horror closely match Isolation's sense of being stranded in an increasingly hostile sci-fi environment.

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Why similar: Space 27%, Horror 25.2%, Sci-fi 22%, Atmospheric 7.3%, Adventure 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This space-station mystery uses isolation, malfunctioning systems, and a disturbing AI presence to create a slower but similarly unnerving sci-fi atmosphere.

The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing

Why similar: Survival Horror 30.1%, Aliens 22.4%, Horror 16.4%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Gore 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Paranoia, isolation, creature horror, and a remote research facility make this an excellent survival-horror companion to Alien: Isolation.

Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.

Why similar: Horror 31.4%, Stealth 20.5%, Survival Horror 16.1%, First-Person 9%, Atmospheric 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival horror classic builds tension through stealth, physics puzzles, confined facilities, and enemies best avoided.

Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.3%, Horror 21.2%, Aliens 13.7%, Space 11.8%, Sci-fi 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It expands Dead Space's terrifying spaceship horror with stronger action while preserving the series' oppressive sci-fi atmosphere.

Scorn is an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.

Why similar: Horror 31.7%, Survival Horror 14.9%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Sci-fi 10.6%, First-Person 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its wordless exploration of an alien biomechanical nightmare delivers an intensely hostile, claustrophobic science-fiction atmosphere.

Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s.

Why similar: Survival Horror 37%, Stealth 33.4%, First-Person 9.4%, Atmospheric 8.6%, FPS 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its stealth-first design, scarce resources, sound-sensitive enemies, and emphasis on hiding make it especially appealing for Isolation's gameplay fans.

A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.

Why similar: Survival Horror 39.8%, Horror 27.1%, Survival 7.1%, Female Protagonist 6.1%, Atmospheric 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its carefully designed police-station labyrinth, resource management, and the persistent Tyrant create a similarly stressful predator-and-prey dynamic.

Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.

Why similar: Horror 32.2%, Survival Horror 31.6%, First-Person 11.7%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Psychological Horror 7%

Why You'll Like It: This slow-burning first-person survival horror game places you alone in a failing underwater facility with dwindling oxygen and mounting dread.

Hidden Deep is an atmospheric sci-fi action game heavily inspired by Aliens, The Thing, and Half-Life. Explore, climb, swim, scan, blast and shoot your way through dangerous missions in a huge sub oceanic mining and research facility. Fear the horrors that lurk below…

Why similar: Aliens 44%, Horror 27.9%, Sci-fi 18.3%, Shooter 4.4%, Action 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its industrial sci-fi complex, hostile organism encounters, and cautious navigation through dark maintenance corridors capture the feeling of vulnerable exploration.

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Why similar: Survival Horror 34.3%, Horror 27.5%, Survival 14.2%, Atmospheric 10%, Psychological Horror 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its top-down view, its oppressive sound design, uncertain threats, scavenging, and nighttime survival evoke the same prolonged anxiety.

A first‑person cyberpunk horror detective story set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.

Why similar: Stealth 35.9%, Horror 31.9%, First-Person 13%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Psychological Horror 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This cyberpunk psychological horror adventure emphasizes first-person investigation, claustrophobic environments, and disturbing technological nightmares.

Survive, hunt and prey in the deadly jungles and swamps in distinctly new and thrilling first person gameplay.

Why similar: Aliens 26.3%, Horror 15.5%, Stealth 12.2%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Survival Horror 7.3%

Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.

Why similar: Aliens 18.4%, Horror 16.8%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Stealth 13.5%, Sci-fi 8%

Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.

Why similar: Aliens 25%, Survival Horror 18%, Horror 15.9%, Space 11.9%, Sci-fi 11%

You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.

Why similar: Horror 26.7%, Survival Horror 19.9%, Space 14.2%, Sci-fi 14%, Aliens 11%

A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.

Why similar: Stealth 25.6%, Horror 21.5%, Survival Horror 18.7%, First-Person 10.4%, Atmospheric 8.3%

You & your friends are the deadliest killers in the galaxy – the US Colonial Marines. It’s up to you to not just survive, but wipe out the Xeno infestation.

Why similar: Aliens 34.6%, Horror 14.7%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Space 11.4%, FPS 7.2%

A new action-horror story set in the iconic Alien universe. Play as rogue Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks, sent to investigate a blacksite on Purdan. Fight and survive using your skill, reflexes, and determination against a deadly Xenomorph incursion in this gripping first chapter of a two-part saga.

Why similar: Aliens 23.5%, Stealth 20.3%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Survival Horror 11.7%, First-Person 10.4%

Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.

Why similar: Horror 35.7%, Survival Horror 22.1%, Stealth 14.3%, First-Person 8.7%, Atmospheric 6.5%

Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.8%, Horror 27.4%, Stealth 11.6%, Survival 5.2%, Psychological Horror 5%

Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.

Why similar: Horror 44.2%, Survival Horror 25.8%, First-Person 8.3%, Survival 5.1%, Atmospheric 4.9%

CASE: Animatronics is a truly scary and challenging first-person stealth horror on PC. Control of the police department is in the hands of anonymous hacker. All exits are locked. Electricity is off. Metallic thumps are getting closer. Will you survive, Detective Bishop?

Why similar: Horror 25%, Survival Horror 21.7%, Stealth 15.4%, Sci-fi 8.9%, First-Person 6.7%

Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.

Why similar: Horror 46.6%, FPS 12.9%, Atmospheric 7%, Sci-fi 6.2%, First-Person 6%

Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.

Why similar: Horror 45.6%, Survival Horror 28.1%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, First-Person 7.5%, Atmospheric 5.4%

A demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars research facility. As one of only a few survivors, you must fight your way to hell and back against a horde of demons in this award-winning horror/action FPS and reimagining of the original DOOM.

Why similar: Horror 31%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Survival Horror 11%, FPS 10%, Space 8.1%

A first-person, story-driven psychological horror game based on the cinematic lore of the Blair Witch. Explore the haunted grounds of the Black Hills Forest in a harrowing investigation that forces you to confront the evil that resides deep in the woods.

Why similar: Horror 39.5%, Survival Horror 19.2%, First-Person 10.6%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Survival 7.2%

Bendy and the Dark Revival® is a first-person survival horror game set in the creepiest cartoon studio to ever exist. Discover the truth. Escape the studio. Above all, fear the Ink Demon…and survive.

Why similar: Survival Horror 26.7%, Horror 25%, Stealth 16.1%, First-Person 9.5%, Survival 8.3%

The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.

Why similar: Horror 38.2%, Survival Horror 24.6%, First-Person 8.5%, Survival 8%, Atmospheric 4.9%

Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Why similar: Horror 36.1%, Stealth 18.7%, Survival Horror 13.2%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Great Soundtrack 5.5%

Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame

Why similar: Horror 29.5%, Survival Horror 25.6%, Stealth 15.8%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Psychological Horror 5.3%

Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.

Why similar: Survival Horror 37.7%, Horror 28.4%, Atmospheric 10.4%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Great Soundtrack 9.2%

The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.

Why similar: Survival Horror 41.9%, Horror 26.2%, Survival 8%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Female Protagonist 5.2%

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.

Why similar: Horror 58.4%, Survival Horror 16.5%, First-Person 8.4%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Psychological Horror 5.1%

Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed it's doors, the events that took place there have become nothing more than a rumor and a childhood memory, but the owners of "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction" are determined to revive the legend and make the experience as authentic as possible for patrons, going to great l

Why similar: Horror 32.5%, Survival Horror 28.5%, First-Person 9%, Survival 8.6%, Difficult 7.2%

A survival horror game where light is scarier than darkness. Use your radar and other tools to stay out of the light, sneak around dangers, explore the quarantined ship, and find a way to escape. But be careful, monsters are hunting you and are aware of your every mistake!

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.5%, Stealth 15.9%, Aliens 13.9%, Space 11.8%, Horror 11%

Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.

Why similar: Aliens 22.7%, Horror 17.3%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, First-Person 7.5%

Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.

Why similar: Horror 53.3%, Survival Horror 13.1%, First-Person 9%, Atmospheric 9%, Stealth 5.8%

A third‑person psychological horror game where you explore both the real world and the spirit realm. As a medium drawn to a deserted resort, you’ll uncover dark secrets, confront echoes of trauma, and face the consequences of seeing more than one truth.

Why similar: Horror 39.6%, Female Protagonist 19.6%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Psychological Horror 9%, Great Soundtrack 7.8%

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a first-person horror game that combines intense action and adventure elements.

Why similar: Horror 34.6%, Survival Horror 24%, Stealth 13.6%, First-Person 8.5%, Atmospheric 5.6%

A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.

Why similar: Horror 79.8%, Psychological Horror 4.8%, Atmospheric 4.7%, First-Person 4.2%, Survival Horror 3.2%