Amanda Ripley is approached by synthetic Weyland-Yutani employee Samuels, who informs her that the black box recorder from her mother Ellen's ship has been recovered and taken to Sevastopol Station, and that a team is being sent to recover it. He offers her the chance to join the operation, hoping it may give her a chance to learn of her mother's fate.
Amanda discovers that the space station Sevastopol is anything but a safe haven. And mechanical failures and violent colonists aren’t the only dangers on the facility.
Sevastopol's mystery killer hunts Amanda as she searches for her missing companions.
Marlow reveals how the alien came to Sevastopol, and Amanda partners with Colonial Marshal Waits to hunt the creature.
Amanda discovers that Sevastopol’s android caretakers have an agenda of their own, and powerful outside forces have put everyone’s lives in danger.
Amanda, who has survived the pursuit of Xenomorph, will learn the terrible truth as she tries to take back control of the station.
The story finally catches up to its opening scenes, with Amanda adrift in space around KG-348. Amanda discovers that the alien infestation has grown beyond her worst fears. Her only hope of survival is a shot in the dark.
Alien: Isolation takes place 15 years after the original film and follows Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley, as she accompanies a Weyland-Yutani team being sent to retrieve the flight recorder of her mother's ship, the Nostromo, recently located by the crew of a salvage vessel Anesidora and being held aboard the Seegson corporation remote Sevastopol space station in orbit around the KG-348 gas giant, on request of Christopher Samuels, an android working for the Weyland-Yutani corporation, so that Ripley can have closure regarding the fate of her missing mother. Ripley, Samuels, and Weyland-Yutani executive Nina Taylor travel to Sevastopol on board the Torrens courier ship, only to find the station damaged and its communications offline. After attempting to spacewalk over to the station to investigate, their EVA line is severed by debris, and Ripley is separated from the others and forced to enter the station on her own, encountering hostile androids, humans, and an unknown alien organism