Alien: Rogue Incursion Evolved Edition

Hot off the heels of Alien Earth, Alien: Rogue Incursion Evolved Edition is the flatscreen conversion of Survios’ 2024 Alien: Rogue Incursion VR. Rebuilt from the ground up, this new version of Alien: Rogue Incursion comes loaded with graphical enhancements, improvements, and full controller/mouse and keyboard support, to bring the latest Alien horror experience to a wider audience.

Alien: Rogue Incursion Evolved Edition does the best single thing it could for a game set in this franchise: it looks and feels like an Alien game. Where it also feels like a VR port makes sense and meshes well with the tone and arc of the gameplay. This part one doesn’t weigh in with the longest playtime and it ends on a bit of a cliffhanger, but based on this first effort the sequel and eventual conclusion of the story seems worth waiting for, and playing through when it does drop. But I would like to see the Aliens get a little deadlier, and the puse rifle get a boost along with it.

There’s always space to scream when playing an Alien game.

Good games based on James Cameron’s Alien franchise seem to show up every now and then. Outside of a certain game by Gearbox Studios that shall remain nameless, there have been some genuinely surprising hits exploring wildly different gameplay styles that somehow just work. From the flawed masterpiece that is Alien: Isolation, to the isometric XCOM-style horror of Alien: Dark Descent, to the VR shooter Alien: Rogue Incursion, which was later ported to flat screens in its Evolved Edition, an...

Alien: Rogue Incursion nails the atmosphere, spectacle, and sense of place, but struggles to maintain the essential threat level.

It's a boring hunt, man! A boring hunt!