A brand new AAA Alien recreation is reportedly within the works

If Alien: Romulus reawakened your urge for food for the long-lasting sci-fi franchise, the excellent news is {that a} promising online game may very well be on the best way. In line with an Insider Gaming report, a brand new recreation for the Alien franchise is again in improvement. The report’s sources talked about that the single-player recreation will likely be set in a “decaying house station” as an arcade survival horror that may be in comparison with “Shadow of [the] Tomb Raider with Xenomorphs.”

It isn’t the primary time we heard about this Alien recreation, which was first reported on in 2022 below the codename “Marathon.” In line with Insider Gaming, the sport has cycled via a number of builders, however extra lately landed with Eidos Montreal, which developed Shadow of the Tomb Raider and is at the moment engaged on the upcoming Fable reboot. The report added that the sport’s improvement finances was elevated to lower than $75 million, up from the preliminary $30 million finances from a number of years in the past.

Insider Gaming‘s report famous that the sport continues to be in “early improvement,” however may function Ripley 8, the human-Xenomorph hybrid that was first seen in Alien Resurrection. The sport’s particulars and launch date are nonetheless topic to vary, however Insider Gaming‘s sources mentioned the sport is “in a very good place at this level” and is anticipated to launch in 2028 on all platforms.