10 Horror Video Games That Brutally Punish You
8. Alien: Isolation
It's proven a tough task to deliver a masterful Alien video game over the decades, but Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation did a phenomenal job of capturing the claustrophobia and sheer dread of the IP when it was finally let out into the wild in late-2014.
Because the game captures that claustrophobic terror so well, though, it's nothing if not instinctive for a player to seek a safe hiding spot any time you think that a Xenomorph is in the vicinity. However, choose to snuggle up to the warm familiarity of safety for too long.
If you think that the best plan in Isolation is to hide out and wait for a Xenomorph to quietly shuffle off and do its Xenomorph thing elsewhere, you'll be gravely mistaken.
Instead, the longer you stay hidden, the greater the chance of the acid-blooded creature successfully hunting you down. It's the ultimate stick or twist conundrum of holding on to your proverbial safety blanket or making a break for it in the hope that your movements don't lead you directly to the very thing you're trying to avoid.
To paraphrase Liam Neeson, the Xenomorph will look for you, it will find you, and it absolutely will kill you.