Posted on: July 6, 2025
ace7734au
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Great game so far
Awesoome fast paced game with great polish.
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The Alters
Description
SURVIVAL HAS NEVER BEEN SO PERSONAL
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.
Create Your Alters
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.
Survival Mechanics
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!
Branching Storylines
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.
Expand your base
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.
Exploration
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!
The emotional sci-fi story
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
11 BIT STUDIOS®, THE ALTERS® are registered trademarks of 11 BIT STUDIOS S.A.
© 11 BIT STUDIOS S.A. All other marks and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved.
Popular achievements
The survivor
Reach the base
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69.9%
Two of us
Create the first Alter
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63.66%
Assertiveness
Learn the Technician’s lesson - Assertiveness
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44.26%
Dig Deeper
Set up the first outpost
common
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65.23%
Who else is there?
Upgrade the Quantum Computer
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49.19%
Provide more
Build the second Rapidium Ark
common
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33.82%
Let's roll
Finish the Prologue
common
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62.77%
Smart Management
Start a production uphold
common
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51.18%
Look at all this new space!
Expand the base for the first time
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44.99%
System requirements
Time to beat
19 hMain
24.5 h Main + Sides
51 h Completionist
24 h All Styles
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Critics reviews
PC Gamer
90/100
Wildly unpredictable but always enjoyable, The Alters is a masterclass in high-tension gaming.
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4.5/5 stars
The moral implications of cloning yourself aren't lost in all the resource and base management systems.
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8/10
The Alters is a highly atmospheric sci-fi character study mixed with simple but effective resource and base management that cleverly builds existential and interpersonal pressure throughout its story.
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Posted on: July 9, 2025
bratkartoffel0
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 1
Runs fine on Linux
No review of the actual gameplay, haven't played it long enough. But had some issues to get it working on linux, this review is to share my experience / setup: The game runs fine in Linux, although GoG warns about it when buying the game. I've got it up and running using Lutris: - KUbuntu 25.04 - Proton Hotfix - Gamescope active - Output resolution: 2560x1440 - Game Resolution: 2559x1439 (one pixel off!) - Custom Settings: --force-grab-cursor No crashes so far, performance looks as expected for a AMD 7900 GRE.
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Posted on: July 16, 2025
SimmeP
Verified ownerGames: 17 Reviews: 1
A new take on an old formula
The Alters brings classic resource management and unique basebuilding elements, and to top it all off a moving thoughtful story around which its core mechanic revolves. A real gem.
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Posted on: September 13, 2025
Bladgen
Verified ownerGames: 199 Reviews: 1
Well done!
Nice and interesting gameplay. After 7 hours wants more
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Posted on: July 13, 2025
Mr_Wilk
Verified ownerGames: 287 Reviews: 2
One more day
I really liked the story, but most importantly, the game has that one more turn (day) vibe where you just can't stop playing.
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