12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards Winner: Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design and Action Game of the Year.

When a huge mining vessel, the USG Ishimura, comes into contact with a mysterious alien artifact in a distant star system, its communications with Earth are mysteriously interrupted.

Engineer Isaac Clarke is sent to repair the Ishimura ship's communications network, but upon arrival finds a living nightmare.



Characteristics:

- Clarke's repair mission becomes one of survival as she fights not only to save herself, but to return the artifact to the planet... at any cost.
- Isaac Clarke is an ordinary engineer tasked with repairing a vast mining vessel, the USG Ishimura, only to discover that something has gone horribly wrong.
- The ship's crew has been slaughtered, and Isaac's beloved partner, Nicole, is lost somewhere on board.
- Now alone and armed with only his tools and engineering skills, Isaac rushes to find Nicole.
- As the nightmarish mystery of what happened aboard the Ishimura ship unravels around him.
- Trapped with hostile creatures called Necromorphs, Isaac faces a fight for survival.
- Not just against the growing terror on the ship, but against his own crumbling sanity.



- Chop off limbs with powerful weapons as you make your bloody way through the alien hordes.
- Find ways to effectively neutralize enemies that attack or will continue to come at you.
- When you run out of ammo, use telekinesis to lift objects - even the arms and legs of enemies!
- An interactive and blood-curdling horror experience with state-of-the-art graphics and effects.
- A panic-inducing sound system and a truly terrifying atmosphere of death and despair.
- Fight relentless enemies and solve challenging puzzles in unprecedented zero-gravity environments that reinvent survival horror.
- Go through the harrowing mystery to stop the alien assault.
- Uncover the tragic story of the downfall of the Ishimura through the final frantic journals of the ship's horribly transformed crew.