The Alters
A genre-blending survival base builder where your only crew is you — alternate versions of yourself.
13 Jun 2025 · $39.99
About The Alters
Digital Deluxe Edition About the Game You have crash-landed on a lethal, radiation-soaked planet, and you are running out of time. A scorching sun that burns everything in its path is coming your way. Your only hope of survival is a massive mobile base too complex for one person to operate. You are forced to make a decision no human has ever faced: creating a crew of alternative versions of yourself. But your solution may just become your biggest problem. You crashed. You are entirely alone. The sun is a death sentence, and your mobile base must keep moving to outrun it. With no rescue coming, you must find a way to operate it, or you’ll die. When the planet itself is your enemy, every second spent standing still brings you closer to ash. To survive, you must move. To move, you need help. Forced to use the base’s advanced quantum technology and the planet’s unique resources, you must create The Alters: alternative versions of yourself. Brought to life by a supercomputer that turned your alternative life choices into reality, they are your only hope. They bring the specific expertise and capable hands you drastically lack, but they also bring their own human baggage.
- • Create Alters with distinct skills and moods
- • Base building on a mobile habitat
- • Time-management drama
- • Branching narrative with multiple endings
- • Radiation-driven survival loops
- • Steam Achievements
- • Full controller support
- • Steam Trading Cards
- • Steam Cloud
- • Family Sharing
Gameplay
In The Alters, the player assumes control of Jan Dolski, a builder working on the Project Dolly space expedition. Jan needs to pilot a massive, wheel-shaped base along the planet surface to stay out of the range of the sun, which can kill him due to lethal radiation. It is a survival game in which players need to explore the planet and mine for resources and materials, which is essential for maintaining and expanding the base. Infrastructure, such as electricity pylons, must be built to provide power for mining equipment. Base expansion is similar to games such as Fallout Shelter and XCOM, with players being tasked to attach new rooms and modules to the base, advancing its capabilities and keeping its crew content. Each segment of the game is timed, as the sun will rise and obliterate the player's entire crew. One second of real-world time is equivalent to one in-game minute. To survive and escape before sunrise, he must create "Alters" using a material known as Rapidium. Alters are alternate versions of himself who made different life choices, and therefore, have their own distinct skill sets, lifestyles and personalities. Using a system named the "Tree of Life", the original Jan can look at his own life path and choose which Alter to bring into life. Alters can offer solutions to the problems the player is currently facing. For instance, a scientist Jan may be able to help players to research new ways to navigate through the game's hostile environments. Each Alter has their own emotions, needs and fears, and players need to regularly check on their status. If left unattended, they may act rashly, resulting in unforeseen consequences. There is a maximum number of Alters a player can create in one playthrough.
Offline play
Full single-player campaign available offline on PC.
- Developer
- 11 Bit Studios
- Publisher
- 11 Bit Studios
- Release
- 13 Jun 2025
- Price
- $39.99
- Modes
- single-player
- Age rating
- M
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
More details
- Metacritic score
- 85
- Steam achievements
- 63 achievements
Screenshots
System requirements
PC — minimum
- OS
- Windows 10 or later, 64-bit
- Processor
- AMD Ryzen 5 1600, Intel Core i7-6700
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Graphics
- AMD Radeon RX 570, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, Intel Arc A570. 6+ GB video memory
- Storage
- 50 GB available space
PC — recommended
- OS
- Windows 10 or later, 64-bit
- Processor
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, Intel Core i7-8700K
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Graphics
- AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, Intel Arc A770. 8+ GB video memory
- Storage
- 50 GB available space
