Which was of course totally intentional . <| sep |> The two options you mentioned make the game autosave . Use ctrl shift esc and end the process . <| sep |> Ridley tells us in an interview that were not ready for Promethius and that it ' s going to scare the crap out of us . What he should have said is I am making a homage to Alien 1 and it won ' t scare four year old . Now he has intentionally blocked what could possibly be the best Aliens yet by Director Neil Blomkamp with Covenant . Rumours are , after making a Alien clone with Promethius he is now doing the same with Aliens . Hopefully there is still room for Neil afterwards because Prom was terrible and like myself Neil has been an Alien fan , from the start . Imo , since Avatar aka pocahontas fern gully and Promethius aka Alien 1 homage , we now have two directors unfit for the Alien franchise . This is a link to what Neil was working on till Scribbly Scott blocked it