Alien: Isolation cover art

Alien: Isolation

Publisher: SEGA

Game Information

HOW WILL YOU SURVIVE?

Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger. Fifteen years after the events of Alien™, Ellen Ripley’s daughter, Amanda enters a desperate battle for survival, on a mission to unravel the truth behind her mother's disappearance.

As Amanda, you will navigate through an increasingly volatile world as you find yourself confronted on all sides by a panicked, desperate population and an unpredictable, ruthless Alien.

Underpowered and underprepared, you must scavenge resources, improvise solutions and use your wits, not just to succeed in your mission, but to simply stay alive.

Overcome an ever-present deadly threat – Experience persistent fear as a truly dynamic and reactive Alien uses its senses to hunt you down and respond to your every move.

Improvise to survive – Hack systems, scavenge for vital resources and craft items to deal with each situation. Will you evade your enemies, distract them or face them head on?

Explore a world of mystery and betrayal – Immerse yourself in the detailed setting of Sevastopol, a decommissioned trading station on the fringes of space. Encounter a rich cast of inhabitants in a world scarred by fear and mistrust.

When she left Earth, Ellen Ripley promised her daughter Amanda she would return home for her 11th birthday. Amanda never saw her again.

Fifteen years later, Amanda, now a Weyland-Yutani employee, hears that the flight recorder of her mother’s ship, the Nostromo, has been recovered at the remote trading station Sevastopol. The temptation for her to finally understand what happened is too much to resist. When the crew arrive at Sevastopol, they find something is desperately wrong. It all seems to be connected to an unknown menace, stalking and killing deep in the shadows.

In order to uncover the truth about her mother, Amanda is forced to confront the same terrifying thing that separated them.

Created using the CATHODE™ engine.

Mac Performance Stats

Experience Reports

4

Play Methods

Native1
CrossOver2
Parallels1
Other0

Average Rating

2.3/4

Experience Reports

CrossOver

CrossOver

v25.0
D3D_METALGOOD
M1 PRO
Graphics:
ULTRA
FPS:
60
Resolution:
1920x1080
Hardware:
M1 PRO

Review Note:

Steam version crashes at start, despite having no anti-tamper software. Cracked version works with good performance using DXVK, which has better performance than D3DMetal and DXMT, just having a bit more initial shader compilation stutter, but it soon gets stable. It's possible to inject TAA (Alias Isolation mod) to immensely improve image quality, as well as other mods, just put the mod files in the main game directory and add the .dll name in Wine Configuration > Libraries (native, builtin) inside your bottle. Controller works but I had to disable Hidraw in Crossover

CrossOver

CrossOver

v25.0
DXVKEXCELLENT
M1 PRO
Graphics:
ULTRA
FPS:
60
Resolution:
1920x1080
Chip:
M1 PRO
Cores:
10 CPU, 16 GPU
RAM:
16 GB

Review Note:

Steam version crashes at start, despite having no anti-tamper software. Cracked version works with good performance using DXVK, which has better performance than D3DMetal and DXMT, just having a bit more initial shader compilation stutter, but it soon gets stable. It's possible to inject TAA (Alias Isolation mod) to immensely improve image quality, as well as other mods, just put the mod files in the main game directory and add the .dll name in Wine Configuration > Libraries (native, builtin) inside your bottle. Controller works but I had to disable Hidraw in Crossover

Native

Native

PLAYABLE
M1 PRO
Graphics:
HIGH
FPS:
50
Resolution:
1920x1200
Hardware:
M1 PRO

Review Note:

Maybe because it's a somewhat old x86 OpenGL game, it seems to demand a lot from the CPU and/or there's a lot of unoptimized code as it's translated through Rosetta 2. Can't get a stable 60 fps on M1 Pro no matter the resolution and graphics settings.
Anti-aliasing is broken, options have not much effect in image quality and it looks awfully distracting. On the PC version you can inject TAA to make it better but not sure about the Mac port.
SSAO can cause performance dips, so consider disabling it. Considering the already dark environments, there's not much difference in image fidelity.

Parallels

Parallels

v20
UNPLAYABLE
M1 PRO
Graphics:
ULTRA
Resolution:
1920x1080
Hardware:
M1 PRO

Review Note:

Boots normally into the main menu but crashes when starting a new game or continuing a save game . Same occurs with VMware Fusion.

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