Half-Life shark fight), and my trusted solution to this problem is to simply never play horror games. Yet when Alien: Isolation came along in 2014, I was torn. The general premise, that I was going to be spending the whole game in a lavishly-recreated corner of an iconic cinematic universe, sounded perfect to me. And sure, I am very into Alien/ Aliens. But it was also going to be scary, because in this game the alien wasn’t target practice for my pulse rifle, it was unkillable, and it would hunt my every step. Which sounded like a game I would