Although the gameplay was praised by several reviewers , some found the game to be unnecessarily long , repetitive , and unforgiving . In a mixed review , McCaffrey felt that the game does not offer many options of survival , requiring players to spend most of their time hiding in lockers " staring at the motion tracker " . '' Polygon '' criticised the overexposure to the alien creature , turning '' Alien : Isolation '' into an irritating experience . As Gies explained , " Every time I thought I heard the monster , every blip on my motion tracker , was a cause for a tightness in my chest at first . By the 300th time I dived under a table or into a locker , I was n't scared anymore — I was annoyed . " Despite the criticism , '' Alien : Isolation '' was considered a " brave " title due to its difficult and unforgiving gameplay , a feature that is uncommon in games with large development costs . '' Alien : Isolation '' received several year-end awards , including '' PC Gamer '' s Game of the Year 2014 , Audio Achievement at the 11th British Academy Games Awards , Best Audio at the 15th Game Developers Choice Awards , and four awards at the 14th National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers . The game also appeared on several year-end lists of the best games of 2014 . It was ranked 1st in '' The Daily Telegraph '' s the 25 best video games of 2014 , 2nd in '' Empire '' s the 10 Best Games Of The Year , 2nd in '' Time '' s Top 10 Video Games of 2014 , 4th in '' The Guardian '' s Top 25 Games of 2014 , 3rd in Reader 's top 50 games of 2014 by Eurogamer , and in '' Daily Mirror '' s the 10 best games of 2014 . In 2015 , '' Alien : Isolation '' was ranked 6th in '' Kotaku '' s list of the 10 Best Horror Games . In 2018 , '' The A.V. Club '' ranked '' Alien Isolation '' as the 5th greatest horror game of all time in a list of 35 , while '' GamesRadar '' ranked '' Alien : Isolation '' as the 3rd best horror game of all time out of 20
11th British Academy Games Awards
11th British Academy Games Awards
Alien: Isolation