{ "id": "epw8z2tjxx", "slug": "alien-isolation-the-digital-series", "title": "Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "label": "Web-native and streaming-original series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.horror_thriller_scifi_webseries", "label": "Genre web series: horror, thriller, science fiction, and mystery", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.horror_thriller_scifi_webseries" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "label": "United States · 2001 to 2020: Web-native and streaming-original series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "path": [ { "id": "geo.us", "label": "United States", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001", "label": "United States · 2001 to 2020", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "label": "Web-native and streaming-original series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series is a 2019 seven-episode animated web series from 20th Century Fox, RES, and DVgroup, released on IGN, retelling and extending the 2014 game's Amanda Ripley story.", "snippet": "Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series is a 2019 seven-episode animated web series from 20th Century Fox, RES, and DVgroup, released on IGN, retelling and extending the 2014 game's Amanda Ripley story.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.horror_thriller_scifi_webseries", "markdown": "# Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series\n\n**Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series** is a seven-episode American animated science fiction horror web series released on February 28, 2019, that retells and extends the story of the 2014 survival horror video game *Alien: Isolation*. It was produced by 20th Century Fox with Reverse Engineering Studios (RES), DVgroup, and TitraFilm, and released exclusively through IGN's website and YouTube channel, with all episodes available at once from 9 a.m. Pacific Time.[1](https://www.darkhorizons.com/alien-isolation-recut-as-a-digital-series/) • [2](https://militarygogglebox.com/2020/08/05/alien-isolation-the-digital-series-tv-series-overview/)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Format | Seven animated episodes, each 8–14 minutes, roughly 73 minutes in total[2](https://militarygogglebox.com/2020/08/05/alien-isolation-the-digital-series-tv-series-overview/) • [3](https://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/alien-isolation-digital-series/) |\n| Release | February 28, 2019, exclusively on IGN.com and IGN's YouTube channel, all episodes at once[1](https://www.darkhorizons.com/alien-isolation-recut-as-a-digital-series/) |\n| Key creatives | Director Fabien Dubois; writer Jeff Juhasz; story credits also include Dan Abnett and Dion Lay[2](https://militarygogglebox.com/2020/08/05/alien-isolation-the-digital-series-tv-series-overview/) • [4](https://www.acmi.net.au/works/61438--alien-isolation-the-digital-series/) |\n| Production companies | Reverse Engineering Studios (RES), DVgroup, TitraFilm, 20th Century Fox, IGN[2](https://militarygogglebox.com/2020/08/05/alien-isolation-the-digital-series-tv-series-overview/) |\n| Source material | The 2014 video game *Alien: Isolation* by Creative Assembly, using its cutscenes and first-person footage[5](https://xenomorphtimeline.com/media/Alien-Isolation-The-Digital-Series) |\n| Setting | In-universe year 2137, fifteen years after the events of the 1979 film *Alien* (2122)[5](https://xenomorphtimeline.com/media/Alien-Isolation-The-Digital-Series) |\n| Lead cast | Andrea Deck as Amanda Ripley, with Anthony Howell, Emerald O'Hanrahan, and Sean Gilder[6](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/70969/alien-isolation-the-digital-series) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise\n\nThe series follows Amanda Ripley, daughter of [Ellen Ripley](https://www.edgepedia.org/ellen-ripley), fifteen years after her mother disappeared aboard the deep space towing ship Nostromo. A Weyland-Yutani team travels to the remote Sevastopol Station, in orbit around the gas giant KG-348, to recover the Nostromo's flight recorder, which may hold clues to her mother's fate. Separated from the others during a spacewalk, Amanda enters the damaged, silent station alone, where she encounters violent survivors, androids that no longer obey, and a creature hunting everyone on board.[5](https://xenomorphtimeline.com/media/Alien-Isolation-The-Digital-Series) • [7](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/alien-isolation-the-digital-series/allseasons/official)\n\nThe story is framed as a message Amanda records while adrift in space near KG-348, recounting her trip to [Sevastopol](https://www.edgepedia.org/sevastopol).[5](https://xenomorphtimeline.com/media/Alien-Isolation-The-Digital-Series) According to the episode guide, the later episodes follow Marlow's account of how the alien came aboard the station, Amanda's partnership with Colonial Marshal Waits to hunt the creature, and a finale in which she finds the infestation grown beyond her worst fears and her only hope of survival is a shot in the dark.[7](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/alien-isolation-the-digital-series/allseasons/official) • [6](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/70969/alien-isolation-the-digital-series)\n\n## Production\n\nDevelopment moved quickly. On February 13, 2019, [Bloody Disgusting](https://www.edgepedia.org/bloody-disgusting) reported that two Alien television projects were in development, one animated and one live-action. On February 20, 2019, Axis Animation announced that a seven-episode animated adaptation of the 2014 game was underway, and on February 27, 2019, IGN announced its series order, with release set for the following day.[2](https://militarygogglebox.com/2020/08/05/alien-isolation-the-digital-series-tv-series-overview/) A launch trailer released on February 27 confirmed the premiere date.[2](https://militarygogglebox.com/2020/08/05/alien-isolation-the-digital-series-tv-series-overview/)\n\n**Construction from game assets.** Kinga Smith of Reverse Engineering Studios and Fabian DuBois of DVgroup described the adaptation in an IGN interview: the team made storytelling choices aimed at going deeper into Amanda Ripley's psychology, \"to discover her demons, her fears, her motivations.\" The finished series combines three kinds of scenes: brand-new scenes rendered from scratch, cinematics taken directly from the game, and first-person gameplay segments that were re-shot, edited, and given a CG model of Amanda Ripley. Smith stated that the series \"doesn't repeat the Alien: Isolation story, but completes it.\"[8](https://www.avpgalaxy.net/2019/03/03/reverse-engineering-studios-dvgroup-talk-alien-isolation-the-digital-series/)\n\nThe cast of the original game reprised their roles, including Andrea Deck as Amanda Ripley, Anthony Howell as Christopher Samuels, Emerald O'Hanrahan as Nina Taylor, and [Sean Gilder](https://www.edgepedia.org/sean-gilder) as Henry Marlow; Kezia Burrows provided motion capture and likeness for Amanda. Recurring and guest roles included Richie Campbell as Ricardo, William Hope as Marshal Waits, Jane Perry as Diane Verlaine, George Anton as Axel, and Melanie Gutteridge as Catherine Foster.[2](https://militarygogglebox.com/2020/08/05/alien-isolation-the-digital-series-tv-series-overview/) Music was composed by Joe Henson, Alexis Smith, and Christian Henson.[2](https://militarygogglebox.com/2020/08/05/alien-isolation-the-digital-series-tv-series-overview/)\n\n## Reception and context\n\nThe series was positioned as a way for people who had not played the 2014 game to experience its story: instead of a playthrough running over eight hours, the seven episodes could be watched in about an hour.[9](https://middleofrow.com/2019/02/28/digital-series-review-alien-isolation-the-digital-series/) A Middle of the Row review praised the Xenomorph's menace and the tension of sequences seen from the hunted character's perspective, while criticizing the weaker, \"sloppy\" animation of the newly added scenes, particularly the characters' mouths, which looked jarring next to the game's footage.[9](https://middleofrow.com/2019/02/28/digital-series-review-alien-isolation-the-digital-series/) STARBURST noted that the shift from the game's first-person view to a predominantly third-person presentation made the retelling feel fresh and let Amanda read as a fully developed character.[3](https://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/alien-isolation-digital-series/)\n\nThe series sits within a cluster of 2019 supplementary Alien media alongside the mobile game *Alien: Blackout* and the comic miniseries *Aliens: Resistance*, both of which also continue Amanda Ripley's story.[10](https://gtogg.com/News/en/Alien_Isolation_gets_digital_series_expanding_the_game_s_story/) In the franchise timeline, its story takes place in 2137, fifteen years after *Alien* (2122) and five years before *Alien: Romulus* (2142).[5](https://xenomorphtimeline.com/media/Alien-Isolation-The-Digital-Series) The episodes remained available on IGN's YouTube channel, where the first episode was published by the Alien Anthology channel in March 2019.[11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMD0CeR1bBM)\n\n## References\n\n1. [\"Alien: Isolation\" Recut As A Digital Series, Dark Horizons (February 27, 2019)](https://www.darkhorizons.com/alien-isolation-recut-as-a-digital-series/)\n2. [Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series TV Series Overview, Military Gogglebox (August 5, 2020)](https://militarygogglebox.com/2020/08/05/alien-isolation-the-digital-series-tv-series-overview/)\n3. [Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series review, STARBURST Magazine](https://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/alien-isolation-digital-series/)\n4. [Alien: Isolation — The Digital Series, ACMI collection record](https://www.acmi.net.au/works/61438--alien-isolation-the-digital-series/)\n5. [When Does Alien: Isolation - The Digital Series Take Place?, Xenomorph Timeline](https://xenomorphtimeline.com/media/Alien-Isolation-The-Digital-Series)\n6. [Alien: Isolation - The Digital Series, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/70969/alien-isolation-the-digital-series)\n7. [Alien: Isolation - The Digital Series episode guide, TheTVDB](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/alien-isolation-the-digital-series/allseasons/official)\n8. [Reverse Engineering Studios & DVgroup Talk Alien: Isolation The Digital Series, Alien vs. Predator Galaxy (March 3, 2019)](https://www.avpgalaxy.net/2019/03/03/reverse-engineering-studios-dvgroup-talk-alien-isolation-the-digital-series/)\n9. [Digital Series Review: Alien: Isolation The Digital Series, Middle of the Row (February 28, 2019)](https://middleofrow.com/2019/02/28/digital-series-review-alien-isolation-the-digital-series/)\n10. [Alien: Isolation gets digital series expanding the game's story, GTOGG (February 28, 2019)](https://gtogg.com/News/en/Alien_Isolation_gets_digital_series_expanding_the_game_s_story/)\n11. 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