10 Surprising Video Games You Can Beat Without Killing Anyone

1. Alien: Isolation

I don’t know about you guys but were I stuck in the chilling hellscape that is Alien: Isolation the last thing that would occur to me is, “I wish I could kill less things.”

But clearly some of you are just better people than me because you did ask that question. And it turns out Creative Assembly delivered, because the 2014 survival horror game actually does reward you for being non-violent.

Even in the face of one of fiction’s most horrifying baddies.

Complete the game without killing any humans and you’ll earn yourself the achievement “Mercy or Prudence?”. It’s not that a survival horror game generally forces you to kill people, for the most part you’ll be fighting for your own life rather than trying to take others, but when you’re made to feel this vulnerable, opting for a non-violent route probably isn’t front of mind. But it’s totally there. You can avoid killing, ensure you’re sneaking past any potentially violent encounters, distract or stun the Working Joes and, well, you’re unlikely to get the upper hand on the aliens.

If you manage to play a game this horrifying and still want to take a no-kill path through it, I salute you.