History VideoGame / AlienBlackout

* SupportingProtagonist: While Amanda Ripley does appear in this game, her main role is to act as MissionControl for the other characters, who do most of the legwork securing components to fix up the ''Haldin'' and get it ready to fly again. Outside of the opening cinematic and a brief shot during the finale of the last level ([[spoiler:running to the elevator to get to the ''Haldin'' as the Xenomorph chases her), you don't see her in normal gameplay.

* AnyoneCanDie: This being an ''Alien'' game, this trope is in full effect -- you can lose up to three members of the ''Haldin'' can die and the game will still ocntinue. Amanda is the only mandatory character who must survive to the end, as the game will instantly end if the Xenomorph makes it into the room she's holed up in.

** A core part of the gameplay is that Amanda is typically situated in a junction of the station's ductwork that allows her to control one of three access points in front of her. The Xenomorph can attack at any point, which forces the player to switch back to her perspective and close the requisite access point before the Xenomorph enters and kills her.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: The game is expressly set after the events of ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'', with Amanda explaining that she was rescued from "[[{{Understatement}} a bad situation]]" by crew members of Mendel Station, who brought her to the station.

** At the end of the tutorial level, Amanda tells the survivors that she was resscued by the staff at Mendel Station, but that she only woke up after most of the crew was dead, and had to seek refuge in the vents to escape the xenomorph threat.

* SensorSuspense: It wouldn't be an ''Alien'' game if there wasn't a crude motion detector present. Moreover, you learn that a Xenomorph is near one of the characters when the dot representing them on the map goes pulsing red...by which point, they are usually doomed regardless of what you do.
* SoleSurvivor: When the W-Y employees board Mendel Station, Amanda informs them that she's the only survivor of the xenomorph's massacre of the staff.

As the game starts, four Weyland-Yutani employees onboard a cargo ship called the ''Haldin'' dock at [=USCSS=] ''Mendel'' Station for a scheduled resupply, only to discover [[LateToTheTragedy the crew all dead by the time they arrive]]. Surprisingly, a SoleSurvivor is onboard who has knowledge of what happened -- Amanda Ripley, the lone survivor of the destruction of Sevastopol Station, who was rescued by the ''Mendel'' and brought to the station, and sought refuge inside the ducts after the remainder of the ship's crew fell against a xenomorph organism. While she has managed to jury-rig enough power from the station to control the doors and the cameras for eight minutes, she still requires the help of the employees to help make it off the ship, and elects to help them scavenge the supplies needed for the ship to take off again, and hopefully figure out how to get rid of the Xenomorph...

** When discussing the AI core in Level 5, Amanda comments that she has experience dealing with them (referring to how she accessed APOLLO in ''Isolation''). She notes that she has no interest in trying to be diplomatic with the system, and elects to simply "pull out key components" until the station gives them what they want.

* ExcusePlot: How a xenomorph got on the ''Mendel'' is never explained, and though it's hinted that W-Y's research laboratory may have had something to do with the matter, no rationale is given for its presence, unlike ''Isolation'''s explanation of the same matter (that being the ''Anesidora'''s discovery of the Derelict and Foster being facehugged before giving birth to a chestburster onboard Sevastopol).

As the game starts, four Weyland-Yutani employees onboard a cargo ship called the ''Haldin'' dock at [=USCSS=] Mendel Station for a scheduled resupply, only to discover [[LateToTheTragedy the crew all dead by the time they arrive]]. Surprisingly, a SoleSurvivor is onboard who has knowledge of what happened -- Amanda Ripley, the lone survivor of the destruction of Sevastopol Station, who was rescued by the ''Mendel'' and brought to the station, and sought refuge inside the ducts after the remainder of the ship's crew fell against a xenomorph organism. While she has managed to jury-rig enough power from the station to control the doors and the cameras for eight minutes, she still requires the help of the employees to help make it off the ship, and elects to help them scavenge the supplies needed for the ship to take off again, and hopefully figure out how to get rid of the Xenomorph...

This time, the Xenomorph has infiltrated a smaller space station known as [=USCSS=] Mendel, and by the time the game starts, things have gone south to the point everyone besides Amanda is dead, and she is left hiding in a vent. While she managed to jury-rig enough power from the station to control the doors and the cameras for eight minutes, there still seems little hope of doing anything but delaying the inevitable...until the Haldin, a Weyland-Yutani ship with four employees on board, docks in for its scheduled resupply.

While they would definitely rather be anywhere else once they learn of the Xenomorph, their presence gives Amanda her chance of escape, as she can direct these people around the station to both scavenge the supplies needed for the ship to take off again, and hopefully figure out how to get rid of the Xenomorph.

* AirVentPassageway: This being an ''Alien'' game, the titular xenomorph can use them liberally to attack the survivors. Moreover, Amanda only survived the xenomorph's attack on Mendel by hiding in one of these until the game begins.

* LateToTheTragedy: Like Amanda before them, the W-Y employees arrive at Mendel Station after the entirety of its occupants (save for Amanda) were killed by a xenomorph.

!! Tropes present in Alien: Blackout:

* ForgottenFallenFriend: If one of the crewmembers is killed by the Xenomorph, the rest will not bother commenting on the event, whether immediately, or later on.
** Possibly justified by the fact everyone is so absolutely focused on surviving against an implacable alien menace there is no time to even process, let alone mourn their losses -- Ripley herself was shown having little time to cope with the loss of [[spoiler: Axel, Samuel, Taylor, Ricardo, and the crew of the Torrens]] during the Sevastopol disaster and didn't do much beyond a somber comment or briefly holding back tears.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: The group of Weyland-Yutani employees consists of two men and two women.
* ManualLeaderAIParty: Amanda is the leader you control directly, while the [=WY=] employees are only controlled through drawing routes on the map for them, or giving them commands.

* SquadControls: Amanda controls the [=WY=] employees by giving them orders like "Hide", "Sneak" or "Hurry Up".

This time, the Xenomorph has infiltrated a smaller space station known as [=USCSS=] Haldin, and by the time the game starts things have gone south to the point everyone besides Amanda is dead, and she is left hiding in a vent. While she managed to jury-rig enough power from the station to control the doors and the cameras for eight minutes, there still seems little hope of doing anything but delaying the inevitable...until a Weyland-Yutani ship with four employees on board docks in for its scheduled resupply.

** Possibly justified by the fact everyone is so absolutely focused on surviving against an implacable alien menace there is no time to even process, let alone mourn their losses - Ripley herself was shown having little time to cope with the loss of [[spoiler:Axel, Samuel, Taylor, Ricardo, and the crew of the Torrens]] during the Sevastopol disaster and didn't do much beyond a somber comment or briefly holding back tears.

--> '''Yutani:'''[[note]]Executive Director Yutani, one of the four employees, not the company itself[[/note]] Engineer Ripley should be commended for her actions.

--> '''Yutani:''' Engineer Ripley should be commended for her actions.

* DifficultySpike: The final, seventh, mission is far more difficult than the preceding ones. Some reviewers spent as much time on it as they did on all of the preceding ones.

''Alien: Blackout'' is a SurvivalHorror game in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' universe, developed by [=D3PA=] and released on January 24th for [[MobilePhoneGame mobile devices]]. It is a sequel to ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'', as the player once again takes on the role of Amanda Ripley, the daughter of Ellen Ripley from the films. However, the gameplay is different, partly due to the mobile system demands, and being much more inspired by the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' series.