Alien VR is a virtual reality game based on the brilliant horror game Alien Isolation. The goal of this project was to create a playable space station using the recently released Unreal Engine 5. All 3D assets and gameplay mechanics were created from scratch.
In the game, you play as a researcher aboard a space transporter called Lawrence, with a crew of five technicians. The crew’s mission is to transport a special cargo to a distant laboratory station to make a newly discovered planet habitable for humans. Along the way, they also have to remove dangerous parts and asteroids from the atmosphere. To this end, the crew has hired an android to look after the spaceship during hypersleep, but the clean-up operation goes differently than planned …