Hype is a curious thing. Each year, videogame after videogame is fed into the machine via a conveyor belt of teasers and trailers. Lunar Software's Routine was one such tender morsel offered up at ...

Eleven years ago, I played Alien: Isolation for the first time. It was my very first introduction to the Alien IP, and I was taken aback by everything about the game. The visuals, the atmosphere, and ...

Creating something that feels new and authentic in the sci-fi horror niche isn’t easy, but the creators of ROUTINE have managed to do it anyway. Set in a retro-futuristic lunar base brimming with ...

An easy comparison to make with Routine is Alien Isolation, due to its green-tinted, chunky technology, and invincible, free-roaming (ish) antagonist forces. While the actual timeline suggests Routine ...

In Routine, players wake up on a seemingly deserted lunar base that they have to explore in first-person. With no other human beings in sight, it quickly becomes apparent that something has gone very ...