The Alters is an ambitious sci-fi survival game with a unique twist. You play as Jan Dolski, the lone survivor of a crash-landed expedition on a hostile planet. To survive, you must form a new crew for your mobile base.
Using a substance called Rapidium, you create alternative versions of Jan—THE ALTERS—each one shaped by a different crucial decision from the protagonist’s past.
As you navigate through survival and moral dilemmas, you will explore a branching narrative filled with captivating character dynamics and challenging decisions.
At the same time, you’re challenged to reflect on one of life’s fundamental questions – do we shape our destiny or does it shape us? This makes your bid for survival a deeply personal experience.
Use the quantum computer onboard your base to simulate alternate outcomes of your past choices and uncover Jan’s different life paths. Each Alter brought to life thanks to the remarkable properties of Rapidium comes with unique skills and emotional depths. These variations offer both opportunities and challenges as you navigate personal struggles and manage the fragile dynamics of your crew.
To operate the mobile base, you’ll need to explore the planet’s surface in search of precious resources, like metals and organics. Yet venturing outside the safe haven comes with the risk of exposing you and your Alters to various deadly anomalies as well as the ever-present radiation of the sun. That’s why you must pay attention to the in-game day and night cycle and plan your daily activities wisely!
Navigate a narrative rich with moral dilemmas and branching paths. Your choices will shape Jan’s relations with his Alters which then will impact their journey and lead you to multiple outcomes and endings.
Gathered resources can be used in different ways – create necessary items or develop your base with additional modules like Research Lab or Social Room. Sometimes you will have to choose between creating items specially for your Alters and ones that could push the mission forward, like Anomaly Detectors or Radiation Filters. The burden of every decision lies solely on your shoulders as you will never be able to satisfy everyone’s needs.
The planet features unique biomes and secrets waiting to be found, but deadly anomalies stand in your way. Levitating rocks and eerie distortions of reality attract attention immediately, while other singularities remain invisible to the naked eye and require special tools to uncover. In all cases, you must be extra careful - or face the risk of instant death, radiation-induced injuries, and even disintegration of time and space. Also, you may want to avoid exploring the planet during hours when intense radioactivity can eat right through your suit. Happy travels!
Jan Dolski is about to face the answers to the essential “what if?” question in the form of alternative versions of himself. This makes the predicament he is in even more daunting as you slowly discover the impact every choice has on Jan’s survival.
The Alters poses you with life’s most nagging questions
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Posted on: July 27, 2025
ArdaGazi
Verified ownerGames: 92 Reviews: 1
Beautiful, creative and adicting
The game has a satisfying and adicting gameplay loop while having a very unique world and story and you have a balance of exploration, dialog, planning and just marveling at the world. Technically i was worried but the game runs well and with fsr4 at native it looks increadibly clean. I only hope for an HDR mode, would make it look even better and really fit the style
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Posted on: July 20, 2025
narcissus79
Verified ownerGames: 189 Reviews: 15
Amazing original game
I really hope they make a movie of this game, because it would be excellent! (Just not Holly wood, please, some Polish studio pick it up!)
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Posted on: August 1, 2025
KnutKnotterson
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 5
Havent expected much...
Bought this for fun and hell what a ride. Best game i have played in a while. Cant really say for what kind of gamer its made, but i love it!
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Posted on: August 15, 2025
infoparty
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 21
Terrible save mechanic
Given the game's instability, the fact that you can't save means that you could be playing for 20-30 minutes and then have it crash towards the end of the day and have to replay the whole 20-30 minute stretch. It's unfortunate because I'd like to praise the game but the lack of freedom to save when you want is replicated in a lot of other places making your choices kind of irrelevant. It'd be like if this was a rogue-like game but you couldn't save while playing, only after your death and start of the next iteration. I don't really like rogue-like games to begin with and this save mechanic creates a lot of unnecessary stress and unhappiness in the gameplay. Without that artificial difficulty (from the save game mechanic) the game is essentially just a walking simulator. So I get why they felt a need to make the save game style penalize the player, because otherwise there isn't a lot to challenge the player (and there are a few exploit behaviors that could be possible with a free style save mechanic.) But I like saving every 5-10 minutes to ensure that if I have a crash I can continue without substantial loss of play time... and this game is actively fighting me to force feed me the most tedious part of the gameplay... so it stops being fun and just becomes frustrating or boring.
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Posted on: July 4, 2025
Falmil
Verified ownerGames: 236 Reviews: 9
Good game
Good game of planning and resource management with an engaging story. I did have some problems with a number of minor glitches that seemed to teleport me around for some reason, or resulted in some temporarily wrong pylons being connected through solid rock. Also reports of use of generative AI being used leaves a bad taste.
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