The Alien series has had a lot of games. The vast majority of them take massive cues from the second film, Aliens, even if they were allegedly based on Alien 3 or Resurrection or something else. It’s obvious why: console games have historically bent more toward action-oriented genres, at least in the Western hemisphere, and the movie where everyone was given big guns and plenty of targets to shoot could be adapted the easiest.

The only Alien games that attempted basing themselves around the original 1979 film were early PC titles that played out as strategy games on an overhead map of the Nostromo. While they were faithful, they didn’t exactly put you into the action.

Then, exactly ten years ago today, came Alien: Isolation, published by Sega and developed by Creative Assembly. It put you in the same retrofuturistic type of spaceship that the original space truckers roamed, gave you limited resources, and pitted you against one hungry Xenomorph with scarily complex AI that would learn from your decisions. Ever since its release, it’s been hailed as the greatest Alien game ever created.

And there have been Alien games since then, but they’ve gone back to the Aliens well and the only comment from fans has been “how about another Alien Isolation, huh?”

Alistair Hope, creative director of Alien Isolation, announced some special news in a tweet today. “On the 10th anniversary, it seems only fitting to let you know that we have heard your distress calls loud and clear,” said Hope. “Today, I’m delighted to confirm, on behalf of the team, that a sequel to Alien: Isolation is in early development. We look forward to sharing more details with you when we’re ready.”

Details like…who will be the star? The main character of the first game was Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley, whom she never got to see grow up because she was frozen in space for nearly Amanda’s entire life. Amanda sets out to search for Mom and doesn’t find her, but instead the species that almost got her. Since that story’s already been told, what’s next? And how will Alien Isolation 2 avoid simply repeating the first game in general?

The answers should come eventually. In the meantime the Alien universe remains active in both film and television with the recent Alien: Romulus and next year’s Hulu series Alien: Earth.

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