Maybe it’s because I was never much into the Alien franchise, but I couldn’t get into this game that felt to me like a giant fetch quest with tediousness drowning out most of the actual horror.
| Positive: | Negative: |
| Tense and dreary atmosphere | Bland environment design with all rooms looking the same |
| Bland plot that fails to hook you in | |
| Terrible checkpoints result in lots of tedious back and forth walking | |
| Tedious stealth mechanics |
Visual novel & other stuff impressions 
I had a similar experience with the game recently. I’ve had several people recommend it but in the end there was simply nothing that drew me in, and cheap kills where i’d open a door and have the alien standing there waiting for me had any horror drowned out by how tedious the walk back from the checkpoint was.
As an aside, I find games where I can’t really fight back -less- scary that ones where I can. I realize that seems backwards XD Still, it remains that Dead Space did more for me as a horror game than Alien, Amnesia or Outlast.
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