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 of
Isolation is a journey through tense corporate steel, dripping with an unforgiving atmosphere that often transports the listener right into the cold, unending expanse of outer space. It’s not all doom and gloom, though — like Amanda Ripley herself,
Isolation’s music buoys forward through sheer will and unexpected moments of warm hope.

Plus, longtime iam8bit friend Nimit Malavia turned in an inspired design for the cassette’s cover art; it’s fashioned after the game’s motion tracker tool, a stalwart friend during those long hours spent combing through Sevastopol Station’s hallways. It’s a must-have for any true fan’s collection.

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Release Notes

10th Anniversary Edition
Never Before Released!
Soundtrack on a Motion-Tracker Green cassette
Also available on Blood Green Vinyl
Music by The Flight & Christian Henson
Original Alien themes by Jerry Goldsmith
Album Art by Nimit Malavia

Track List

SIDE A
A01. The Torrens
A02. E.V.A.
A03. Welcome to Sevastopol
A04. Axel’s Death
A05. San Christobal
A06. Quarantine
A07. Working Joes
A08. Solomon’s Galleria
A09. The Hunt

SIDE B
B01. The Derelict
B02. The Space Jockey
B03. Catherine Foster
B04. Tomorrow Together
B05. It’s Here
B06. The Core
B07. The Beast
B08. Escape Sevastopol
B09. Airlock
B10. Ripley’s Theme

Alien: Isolation

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