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A quick tip for you this morning! Alien: Isolation, one of the scariest games I've ever played has hit an all-time low price. Yesterday was 'Alien Day', a yearly celebration of the Alien franchise that happens on April 26 due to the moon in the first two films designation as LV-426.

To go along with Alien Day, Alien: Isolation hit a ridiculous price of £1.49 on Humble Store and the whole collection can be picked up for £8.74. That is an insane price, even for just the base game, considering how impressive it is and how long it is. That's a lot of game for less than £2!

Originally released in October 2014, Alien: Isolation later came to Linux in Ocrober 2015 thanks to a port from Feral Interactive and they did a great job on it.

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If you never got a chance to see it, our livestreamer did a full playthrough on our Twitch Channel, where something pretty hilarious (warning: sweary) happened.

See the full Alien Day sale on Humble Store, or Steam if you prefer. You've got another 30 or so hours to pick up a copy and I do thoroughly recommend it.

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Tchey 27 Apr 2020
I tried to like this game several times, but i find it very boring and over-hyped.


Last edited by Tchey on 27 Apr 2020 at 9:50 am UTC
haiku 27 Apr 2020
Outlast 2 was the most scariest for me :S:
Rooster 27 Apr 2020
Funny thing about scary games: I gave my girlfriend Amnesia to play, she played it for about 3 hours and found it boring.
Then I switched to playing Sekiro and she was more tense and scared by just watching me play it, then in all 3 hours she played Amnesia.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, Sekiro is actually the scariest game I ever played. Even more so, than Bloodborne. Of course, for most part, the game is not scary, only some moments in the game are, but the same can be said about games like Amnesia or Alien Isolation. With the difference, that the non-scary sections in Sekiro are far from boring.


Last edited by Rooster on 27 Apr 2020 at 10:15 am UTC
WorMzy 27 Apr 2020
I found this game more frustrating than scary. So frustrating that I gave up playing at one point.
fabertawe 27 Apr 2020
I've only played about 30 minutes, I couldn't take it :D I will get back to it at some point though!
SirLootALot 27 Apr 2020
Funny, that one of the DLCs is called CORPORATE LOCKDOWN.
whizse 27 Apr 2020
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Thanks for the heads up, got the game!

(Also, I seriously can't believe Alien Day came and went and I didn't get a single card or carnation!)
C7z 27 Apr 2020
I love this game soo much I just can't play it on linux native port does not support surround sound and proton does through steam start up menu code but using analog sound card I get surround sound but no bass/lfe so it sounds soo flat have to play in windows to fully enjoy this title such a shame where linux would be my preferred choice.
chelobaka 27 Apr 2020
Ah okay good to know. Would be nice if you could tell then how it runs!

RX 5700XT at 4K with maxed out settings gives me a smooth framerate (I can't tell the difference beyond 45+ FPS anyway).
mylka 27 Apr 2020
Anyone here who can tell me what they exactly mean with AMD and Intel not supported? I assume that you can still play it but yeah.

this game came out 1yr after steam linux client
linux gaming kinda sucked back then

some older games have this warning like witcher 2, which works for me
MESA based drivers (e.g. "nouveau", "radeonsi") are not currently supported.
shouldnt be a problem today
tuubi 27 Apr 2020
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Anyone here who can tell me what they exactly mean with AMD and Intel not supported? I assume that you can still play it but yeah.

this game came out 1yr after steam linux client
linux gaming kinda sucked back then

some older games have this warning like witcher 2, which works for me
MESA based drivers (e.g. "nouveau", "radeonsi") are not currently supported.
shouldnt be a problem today
Ambient occlusion (SSAO) doesn't work properly if set to HDAO on Mesa 20.0.5, but "Standard" seems fine. Otherwise runs perfectly with everything maxed out at 1080p on my hardware, but that's no surprise.
vskye 27 Apr 2020
I just picked up the game today on Steam, so I'll give it a try tonight. For $2.00 you can't complain about the price. ;)
Xaero_Vincent 27 Apr 2020
I love this game soo much I just can't play it on linux native port does not support surround sound and proton does through steam start up menu code but using analog sound card I get surround sound but no bass/lfe so it sounds soo flat have to play in windows to fully enjoy this title such a shame where linux would be my preferred choice.

Have you tried playing the game with 'steam-native', which doesn't use the steam runtime?

I remember reading on Archwiki that one benefit of playing a native game with that is surround sound can be made to work on certain games that otherwise wont due to the runtime having old libraries. That said, I still usually play with steam-runtime just to reduce the risk of ABI breakage. But native-runtime is worth a try.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/multilib/x86_64/steam-native-runtime/


Last edited by Xaero_Vincent on 27 Apr 2020 at 5:59 pm UTC
Beamboom 27 Apr 2020
I couldn't even get past the tutorial of this game - too scared, I was preparing myself to look straight into an alien face around every single corner until I had no more nerves left to continue 😂
slaapliedje 27 Apr 2020
I couldn't even get past the tutorial of this game - too scared, I was preparing myself to look straight into an alien face around every single corner until I had no more nerves left to continue 😂
I should order a 30 pack of underwear and play this in VR.
Muvon53 27 Apr 2020
In my opinion one of the greatest games of this genre. If you like this one you should definitely play it once. Great cinema and worthy of the excellent movie in all respects!
slaapliedje 28 Apr 2020
This is a very bad game, there’s an alien that moves randomly and one-shoots you, it’s not fun at all.
This is not an FPS. It's a quieter, smarter, slower type of game. The alien is indestructible but the fun is in learning its patterns and avoiding him in an intelligent manner. Together with the facts that many things you do require attention to perform (crafting, opening some doors, burning open panels, etc.), it makes for incredibly tense moments and legitimate scare and startling feelings.

Its quality in the genre is widely recognized and it made a mark in game design, you can check all the videos analyzing it on youtube. Frankly, it's awkward to try and explain this is not Aliens: Space Marines, it's a superb survival horror game. But it seems that once people only know a hammer, they think everything is a nail...
It is also a proper sequel to Aliens. The story very much mixes that in, if I recall. But is more along the lines of the original Alien in pacing and style.
I only got so far into it, definitely one on my list of 'will eventually play for sure'.
I still need to win Penumbra, that game gives me high anxiety though!
mike456 28 Apr 2020
The atmosphere is great, hence I'm looking forward to replay in VR after we get the new HP/MS/Valve headset.
Played it through with a few crashes back then Nvidia was to blame. Nowadays bugs should be all fixed. Hide and seek gets somtimes boring, should be more FPS scenes but I loved the steam, textures etc. in my old Odyssey VR.
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