Alterworld

Alterworld

Poonpoonza · July 31, 2024 · Adventure, Sandbox, Exploration, 3D, Early Access

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About Alterworld

Have you ever wanted to play a videogame where you can do almost anything? Well, this is the game for you!

Take a stroll around the infinite procedurally generated world!
Yup, the terrain is fully destructible!
Climb up the mountains, explore the caverns or swim across the tides of the ocean!
Combine or split items to get more items!
Build and customize your dream house!
And so much more coming soon!

Start your alternate world! This is your Alterworld!

Alterworld — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Alterworld is a Minecraft-inspired building game that players find enjoyable in concept but marred by significant technical problems, including crashes that occur within minutes of play. While some appreciate the building mechanics during the brief periods before errors occur, the game suffers from poor optimization, visual issues, and an overall sense of being an unpolished and less ambitious alternative to Minecraft. Players suggest waiting for substantial bug fixes and development improvements before considering this title.

Recommended Aug 4, 2024
i would love to see this game in full development! i love minecraft clones! unfortunately, i get a big ol glitch after less than a few minutes of playtime, after a few bug fixes and updates, i would love to see this game!
3 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 14, 2025
It was fun to build a house for about an hour until it crashed my computer.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 31, 2024
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Not recommended Mar 12, 2026
"Alterworld" is a blatant, low-effort clone of Minecraft (Copyright Microsoft/Wojang/Notch, 2009). It seems some "amateur" developers think copyright laws are optional, choosing to ripoff games from real developers without conscience. This one is even less ambitious than Minecraft, which makes people wonder, why do amateur developers see someone else's game, try to rip it off but worse because they aren't qualified to develop such games, and then publish them on Steam Direct? Having a worse version of Minecraft isn't something gamers want. And wow, this really is deficient compared to Minecraft. The use of voxels is cludgy and the game looks awful (and Minecraft already looks bad, there's a reason the most popular mods for Minecraft are attempts to fix the visuals). Beyond the obvious ethical and creative bankruptcy involved stealing other people's game ideas, they failed the basic rule of game design: if you are going to rip off someone else's game, you have to at least try to improve on it. Instead, "Alterworld" is much worse than the original Minecraft. The developers gave up on this 8 months ago. It's destined to remain unfinished. This junkware is just polluting Steam …

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