Tag: Alien Isolation

The best Halloween games for horror fans and the scare-averse alike

Our best Halloween games list includes picks for scary games, psychological horror, and a few for the less fright-tolerant among us

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The best Halloween games look a bit different depending on what your scare tolerance is. There’s plenty of jumps, frights, zombies, and bloodshed if you’re into that sort of thing, with the likes of Resident Evil and System Shock. If you’d rather have a more cerebral experience, you might want to consider the video game equivalent of telling scary stories by the fire and, depending on the game, probably going to bed with the lights on. If scares aren’t really your thing, though, you’ve got plenty of choices for games that go heavy on atmosphere and leave the creepy stuff behind. Mostly. 

 

We’ve included picks for all those tastes and more in our roundup of the best Halloween games.

 

Best alien games – virtual extraterrestrials we love to shoot, escape, and trade with

The very best close encounters to be had with otherworldly visitors.

Alien games have it in them to create a much deeper and more involving sci-fi than movies. Where film sets and actors are bound to budgeting constraints and the amount of grease paint and putty that can be applied to one head, game engines have no such concerns. A bold creative vision that might be too expensive to realize for the big screen always finds a home in gaming. 

And since no-one gets annoyed when theoretical extraterrestrials are the enemies getting blown to bits, they’ve proven a popular foil since the earliest arcade games. Video game futurism has grown more sophisticated since then of course, and our interactions with aliens aren’t always hostile now. In the below games, you’ll find the very best close encounters to be had with otherworldly visitors. 

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Alien: Isolation is coming to Android and iOS on December 16

On the train, everyone can hear you scream.

The survival horror classic Alien: Isolation  will release on Android and iOS on Dec. 16 for $14.99 USD. 

The studio behind this port, Feral Interactive, is promising the whole Alien: Isolation  shebang on iOS and Android. That means uncompromised graphics along with all seven DLC packs for the game — yes, even the one where you get to play as Sigourney Weaver. 

Despite being seven years old, Alien Isolation  is still quite a looker. So it’s bold of Feral Interactive to claim this mobile port will be on par with its console and PC counterparts. However, this studio also developed the stellar Nintendo Switch port of Alien: Isolation, which by some accounts looks better than it does on PS4 and Xbox One.

Check out how Alien: Isolation  looks on Android and iOS for yourself below.

This port will have touchscreen controls, a fully customizable interface as well as controller support.

Alien: Isolation  was originally developed by Creative Assembly and came out in 2014 to rave reviews. It’s sitting at an 81 on Metacritic, which at the time was practically unheard of for a movie tie-in game. To this day, it’s considered one of the best horror games ever made. You have to wonder what Bloober Team thinks of it.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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