Key facts
- The development team is sticking with the survival horror genre for Alien: Isolation 2, according to creative director Al Hope.
- The original Alien: Isolation was released in 2014.
- Amanda Ripley, engineer and daughter of Ellen Ripley, starred in the original game while searching for clues about her mother's disappearance on space station Sevastopol.
- Alien: Isolation 2 is focused on a new protagonist rather than Amanda Ripley, according to Hope.
Alien: Isolation 2 releases in 2027, creative director Al Hope said during an interview at the Lucca Comics and Games Festival. Hope said the development team is sticking with survival horror for the sequel.
Players will avoid a persistent Xenomorph rather than confronting it directly, in keeping with the survival horror and stealth-based setup of the original. Preview footage showed players using stealth to stay undetected, including hiding in vents and grates, listening for the creature, repairing systems and keeping quiet.
Hope said Alien: Isolation 2 focuses on a new protagonist rather than Amanda Ripley. The new lead is Blake, a Weyland-Yutani manager sent to planet LV-921 to locate a lab jettisoned from Sevastopol Station by Amanda Ripley; a Xenomorph is inside. She is part of a Weyland-Yutani survey team on a remote colony world, examining a crashed vessel tied to Sevastopol Station.
Hope said Blake works for the company and has no prior encounter with the creature, and he expressed excitement about her role. The team is proud of Amanda Ripley, but players will control a new character.
Released in 2014, the original Alien: Isolation followed Amanda Ripley, an engineer and Ellen Ripley’s daughter, as she searched Sevastopol Station for clues about her mother’s disappearance. Andrea Deck, who voiced Ripley, appeared in a press demo for the sequel.
Hope said the universe of the first Alien movie still holds much to mine or tap into. He said the sequel promises to put players back in a time and place where a single alien can be absolutely terrifying and an incredible challenge.
GameRant said fans have been waiting for Alien: Isolation 2 since 2014 and identified length as the original game’s most frequent criticism. The outlet said fear fades and fatigue sets in when a survival horror game runs past 20 hours without good reason.
IGN’s full interview with Hope and Project Art Director Ana Sopikova covered xenomorph design, the appearance of save stations from Alien: Isolation in Alien: Romulus, and whether the games are part of official Alien canon.
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