Alien: Isolation

12 Years Later and this game is still, easily, one of the- if not the best horror game out there. What a masterpiece, genuinly! Everything from the Map Design- to the INSANE Alien AI (which still easily beats a lot of Enemy AIs nowdays) with its Behavior Trees and 2 Brains and Learning ability, crazy good pathfinding and Attacking habits (sometimes it even pretends to run away just to loop around and get you from behind) - to the Atmosphere- to the Story-to the music- to the Gameplay- just everything. The Xenomorph is terrifying from the 1st encounter to the last, despite the repetitive ways to keep it at bay it still manages to suprise you and every encounter is unique, you have a huge arsenal of weapons and tools with which you still often feel helpless (but not so helpless that it gets annoying like in most horror games), the Joes were both hilarious and just JACKED- like genuinly, what do you mean i pump a whole Magazine into your forhead and all you say is "Youre starting to test my patience", dayumn. Especially the Hazmat Joes. I think i died more times to the Hazmat Joes than the Xenomorph and these guys were terrifying in hordes. Its also pretty well optimized, not a shred of lag the entire playthrough, although there were some visual glitches here n there like lights loading in too soon or too late or some walls becoming transparent in certain areas but through ca. 40 hours i only remember, like, 6 times glitches like that happened and they fixed themselves seconds later. And my favorite- you have to always mix up your playstyle. Like i mentioned, the Xeno adapts to your playstyle so you cant always just hide under desks or go into lockers or spam certain weapons to scare it off, if you overuse any of it, it becomes useless quickly. The only things off the top of my head that i didnt like were the Maps and station layout which just gives me a headache and the constant doors and places that go "Oh, you dont have upgrade number 42 for your Torch or Decrypter? Sorry, come back in, like, 4 chapters, if you still remember it by then!" ugh. And the Fact both of these issues are connected makes it soooo much worse. But other than that i absolutely loved this game. And its crazy how far ahead of its time it was and Youtube Videos really dont do this game justice, you just have to play it to feel it properly. Plus, Rough 40 hours of Gameplay for 40 bucks? Solid. If you can, get the game, its worth it. Side note, play on Hard, everything lower is too easy according to what i heared