Fall 2025 has been a prosperous time for both the long-running Alien and Predator franchises, with the former releasing its first television show with the prequel series Alien: Earth and the latter seeing widespread critical and financial success with the recently released Predator: Badlands.
Badlands has so far earned over $80 million worldwide, the highest grossing Predator film to date, while Alien: Earth was one of the most viewed series on both Disney+ and Hulu, with its debut two episodes garnering over nine million views within its first six days.
Since the first season of Alien: Earth ended on a cliffhanger in late September with no announcement of a season 2, many were concerned that the series had been canceled up until FX and Disney Entertainment Television announced on Tuesday that Alien: Earth was officially renewed for a second season and will begin shooting in London, 2026.
While Alien: Earth fans are waiting for its second season to release, here’s a list of 10 games fans of the Xenomorph-centric series will love to play due to the games’ similarities to the show’s characters, events, and settings.
Spoilers for Alien: Earth Season 1 ahead
10 Among Us
Crews Struggling With Lethal Aliens
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- Released
- June 5, 2018
- ESRB
- E10+ for Everyone 10+: Mild Blood, Fantasy Violence
- Engine
- Unity
- Cross-Platform Play
- Mobile, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S
- Franchise
- Among Us
- How Long To Beat
- N/A
- X|S Optimized
- Yes
- File Size Xbox Series
- 1005 MB (November 2023)
- Metascore
- 85
- Platforms That Support Crossplay
- Mobile Devices, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S
- PS Plus Availability
- N/A
- Steam User Rating
- 92%
- OpenCritic Rating
- Strong
Arguably the best episode of Alien: Earth is “In Space, No One…” which depicts how the crew of the Maginot died from both the titular Xenomorph and its cargo of other volatile lifeforms in a structure very similar to that of the original 1979 Alien film.
Fans of this episode may enjoy playing through Among Us as, while it is more influenced by 1982’s The Thing with the alien Impostor disguising itself as one of the Crewmates, Among Us is still fairly similar to Alien and Alien: Earth with all three focusing on crews struggling to stay alive as an extraterrestrial life form picks them off one by one.
In a way, the method in which the Impostor is able to disguise itself as a Crewmate is similar to the scene from “In Space, No One…” where the engineer Shmuel is possessed by the eyeball-like T. Ocellus and briefly attacks Zoya Zaveri after she initially thinks Shmuel is just acting normally on the Maginot‘s bridge.
While Among Us may be too cartoonish for some Alien fans, it’s still a lot of fun to play with friends, and it creates many similarly suspenseful and shocking moments found throughout Alien: Earth and the greater Alien franchise.
9 System Shock
One of the Most Influential Sci-Fi Games Ever Made
Androids, otherwise known as Synthetics, are crucial parts of the Alien series and play an especially prominent role in Alien: Earth with Kirsh and Atom Eins playing enigmatic Synthetics alongside the introduction of Cyborgs with Kumi Morrow and Hybrids with the Lost Boys.
Artificial beings have similarly repeatedly played prominent roles in video games, but one of the best and most influential uses of artificial intelligences and cyborgs is 1994’s single-player first-person action-adventure game System Shock, and its 2023 remake.
Here, players embody an unnamed hacker in 2072 who’s forced by the TriOptimum Corporation to stop the rogue AI called SHODAN from using Citadel Station to destroy cities and humanity on Earth, all while fighting robots, cyborgs, and mutants on the station.
While the original 1994 System Shock‘s visuals and gameplay may be a bit dated, its story and revelations are one of the best ever told in gaming and the remake greatly improves upon the graphics and gameplay to make it easier for modern gamers and general sci-fi fans to experience the robotic battle between the hacker and SHODAN.
8 Scorn
H. R. Giger’s Dreamscape
The Xenomorph is well known for being one of the most fearsome and intriguing monsters ever created, masterfully designed to be a perfect blend of flesh and machine by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger, and this biomechanical design philosophy was the direct inspiration for Ebb Software’s horror game Scorn.
If anybody wanted to witness an alien world completely enveloped in the same nightmarish, often suggestive biomechanical design seen in the Xenomorph, Space Jockey, and the derelict spaceship from the original Alien film, look no further than Scorn.
Everything in Scorn is coated in Giger’s artistic style, from the hallways to the machines and weapons found within Scorn‘s mysterious world, and it’s no picnic for its protagonists, as they’ll often be prodded with biomechanical devices as the cost for unlocking doors or activating machines to solve puzzles.
Alien: Earth may not feature much of Giger’s haunting art style aside from the Xenomorph itself, but I think most fans of the show and the Alien franchise overall will find playing through Scorn intriguing as it could provide a glimpse at what the Xenomorph or the Space Jockey’s true homeworld could be like.
7 Prey
Hidden Aliens at Every Corner
Alien: Earth is more inspired by the original 1979 film than any other entry in the film series, but it does feature some similarities with Aliens, especially with Joe Hermit and other members of the Prodigy Corporation Security Service. One game that was heavily inspired by both films was 2017’s Prey.
Not to be confused with 2006’s Prey or the Prey film from the Predator series, 2017’s Prey is set in 2035 aboard the Talos I space station wherein TranStar Industries has been conducting experiments on an alien race known as Typhons that can devour organic material and mimic the appearance of stationary objects.
Players embody Morgan Yu, one of the last humans left alive following a Typhon outbreak on Talos I, as they struggle to survive on the station, uncover the truth about the Typhon, and discover their past life.
Much like the Weyland—Yutani and Prodigy Corporations, TranStar isn’t exactly a benevolent company and its drive to “improve” humanity with experimentations on the Typhon have endangered everyone on Talos I, just as bringing the Xenomorph eggs and the other lifeforms aboard the Maginot endangered everyone aboard that ship.
6 Aliens: Fireteam Elite
A Fantastic Bug Hunt
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
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- Released
- August 24, 2021
- ESRB
- M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Violence
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
- Cross-Platform Play
- PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S
- Number of Players
- 1-3
- Platforms That Support Crossplay
- PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S
- PS Plus Availability
- Essential, Extra, & Premium
- OpenCritic Rating
- Fair
Since the original Alien film debuted in 1979, dozens of developers have created dozens of games inspired by the original film and its subsequent sequels and prequels and one game that managed to feature aspects from nearly every Alien film and even content from books and comics is the third-person Aliens: Fireteam Elite.
Set in between Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection, Fireteam Elite follows a titular fireteam of Colonial Marines or military Synthetics from the USS Endeavor as they respond to a distress call from Weyland-Yutani survivors on LV-895 after a Xenomorph outbreak wiped out most researchers.
Fireteam Elite is meant to be played in three-person squads online, with each member able to play in a variety of classes such as Gunner, Technician, or Doc, but players can play through it solo with the two other squadmates being replaced with the military Synthetics Alpha and Beta.
Fireteam Elite is a ton of fun to playthrough with friends in the same vein as Left 4 Dead, but it’s especially fun for Alien fans as players will encounter several Xenomorph variants such as the Runner from Alien 3, the Praetorian, and the Crusher, along with Pathogen mutated creatures such as Pathogen Husks from Prometheus and the gorilla-like Pathogen Brute.
5 Revenge of the Savage Planet
The Joy of Exploring Alien Worlds
One of the major aspects of Alien: Earth is Weyland—Yutani and Prodigy’s race to acquire and study the many extraterrestrial specimens aboard the Maginot, such as the T. Ocellus, the D. Plumbicare, and the Fly. One fun game that perfectly showcase the dangers and joy of capturing alien lifeforms on alien worlds has got to be Revenge of the Savage Planet.
Revenge of the Savage Planet doesn’t have much of a story, but that’s not really the point of the game, with it instead focusing on the colorful, comedic third-person gameplay of a space explorer exploring five planets, studying and capturing local plant and animal life, and crafting or unlocking new tools to traverse the planets.
While Revenge of the Savage Planet is a sequel to 2020’s first-person Journey to the Savage Planet, Revenge could be played without ever playing Journey, and it could even be played in local or online co-op.
Sure, Revenge may not be as dark or realistic as Alien: Earth, but it’s still one of the best games out there that allows players to go out and capture aliens, albeit in a way more safe way than probably the crew of the Maginot did to acquire their trove of hyperlethal alien creatures.
4 Dead Space
Alien’s True Successor
Alien is arguably the best space horror film series ever made and, to me, the best space horror game franchise is one that not only perfectly built upon Alien‘s themes, horrific creature design but also the gameplay of System Shock and Resident Evil 4, with that game franchise being EA’s Dead Space.
In 2008, EA Redwood Shores, later known as Visceral Games, released the first Dead Space title wherein players embody the engineer Isaac Clarke as he and a rescue unit travel to the USG Ishimura to help its crew and Isaac’s girlfriend Nicole Brennan, only to find the ship mysteriously infested with zombie-like creatures known as Necromorphs.
Since that first game, Dead Space has gone on to spawn numerous sequels, spinoffs, books, comics, animated films, and a 2023 remake by Motive Studio, with the latter being one of the best remakes ever made thanks to how faithfully it recreated the original game’s claustrophobic feel while adding gameplay and narrative features from the sequels.
While the Dead Space franchise is essentially frozen thanks to the somewhat disappointing sales numbers of the remake, the original Dead Space trilogy and the 2023 remake are still some of the best third-person survival horror games ever made that Alien fans will surely enjoy.
3 Aliens vs. Predator
Specimen Six’s Gory Freedom
Ever since Dark Horse Comics published the original Aliens vs. Predator comic in 1989, the two franchises have forever been intertwined and the two deadly extraterrestrial species have gone on to fight in dozens of comics, games, and two films. But the best AVP game has got to be 2010’s Aliens vs. Predator.
Much like previous first-person AVP games, 2010’s Aliens vs. Predator features three campaigns following a Colonial Marine, a Predator, and a Xenomorph whose stories all affect each other during the Xenomorph outbreak on BG-386.
While playing as the Xenomorph Specimen Six may be a bit disorienting, since she can climb on walls and ceilings, being able to stealthily take down Colonial Marines, Weyland-Yutani researchers, and Combat Androids is still gloriously gory, the best way playing as a Xenomorph should be.
Plus, Specimen Six’s climatic fight against multiple Predators is just awesome to playthrough and this event directly impacts boss fights encountered in the Predator campaign, showcasing how the death and destruction Xenomorphs cause affect life in several disastrous ways.
2 Detroit: Become Human
Fighting for Android Rights
One of the major themes of Alien: Earth is determining what it means to be human and if having humanity is even a good thing, especially with the Lost Boy Hybrids. One game that perfectly addresses the conflict of identity and purpose for artificial beings is Quantic Dream’s Detroit: Become Human.
Detroit is set in 2038 in a world where androids have become prevalent throughout the world and are used as servants, police, manual laborers, medical staff, and more, and they’re nearly indistinguishable from actual humans, similar to the Synthetics and Hybrids from Alien.
Similar to Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Detroit‘s gameplay is centered around split-second action and dialogue decisions between its three protagonists: a police investigator android called Connor, a former caretaker android called Markus, and a housekeeper android called Kara as all three struggle striving for freedom while adhering to their programming.
Each decision made will not only impact the events and relationships with NPCs for each character, but also impact events for the other two protagonists, resulting in numerous different endings for the androids, some hopeful and some hopeless.
1 Alien: Isolation
The Best Alien Game Ever Made
In the 46 years since the creation of the Alien franchise, no video game has been able to accurately recreate and often surpass the horrors of being hunted by Xenomorph than Creative Assembly’s first-person survival horror classic Alien: Isolation.
Set 15 years after the original film in 2137, Isolation follows Ellen Ripley’s daughter Amanda Ripley as she joins a Weyland-Yutani retrieval team in the hope of finding evidence of her mother’s location or survival aboard Sevastopol Station, only to find the station in total chaos among its survivors, Working Joe Synthetics, and a roaming Xenomorph.
What makes Isolation truly terrifying is the AI of the Xenomorph as it learns the hiding patterns and routes of the player throughout the game, making it increasingly harder to hide from the alien as the game goes on.
Plus, Creative Assembly made sure to accurately recreate Isolation in the same 1970s future style for Sevastopol’s architecture and machines, even going so far as to record computer animations on VHS to fully immerse players into the world of the original Alien films.
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