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.

It must be a weird feeling for Alien fans. It’s not like the franchise is starving for new entries or products (on the contrary, some might say there’s too much Alien stuff coming out), but the quality of said entries is absolutely all over the place. To play a brand new Alien game in 2025, you never know what you’re going to get, especially when it’s a non-VR version of a game initially released on VR devices a year ago (which, for some reason, I had never heard of before playing thi...

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!