Alien: Isolation coming to Switch this year

Sega Europe and developer Feral Interactive announced in today’s Nintendo E3 2019 Direct that Alien: Isolation, a game back in 2014, will be ported to Switch sometime this year.

Alien: Isolation is a survival-horror game that is based on the Aliens franchise. The game follows Amanda might fight her way through an uknown menace, stalking, and killing deep in the shadows.

Here’s an overview of the game, via Sega Europe:

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. 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.A

Key Feature

  • 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.

Alien Isolation first launched on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, on PC back in 2014. Switch owners can look forward to this game sometime in 2019.