Alien: Isolation (Original Video Game Soundtrack) - The Flight and Christian Henson (Cassette Tape)

In a world filled with quick cash-in licensed games, Alien: Isolation was a gasp of fresh air. Its release in 2014 marked a watershed moment for what inspired and faithful adaptations could look like in video games as a medium. With its retro-futuristic visuals, subtly haunting sound design, nail-bitingly tense gameplay, and brilliantly ahead-of-its-time AI, Creative Assembly’s masterwork presented a different sort of vent-crawling survival horror, one well-suited for the world of Weyland-Yutani. Now, a decade later, iam8bit is proud to celebrate Alien: Isolation’s 10th anniversary with an appropriately analog release. This is the Alien: Isolation Cassette Soundtrack. It’s the very best of The Flight and Christian Henson’s now-legendary score, spooled up and stored on glorious magnetic tape, just the way a corporate-faithful android would like it. Keeping in line with the game’s grimy, lo-fi art design, the music ofIsolation is a journey through tense corporate steel, dripping with an