The Alters

The Alters

11 bit studios · 2025 · Survival, Base Building, Management, Sci-fi, Exploration

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About The Alters

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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What Steam players say

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

Recommended Jul 12, 2026
11/10, Life changing game
Recommended Jul 11, 2026
oooh I'm conflicted about this one. I've been going back on fourth on a positive or negative review. On the one hand, the story and concept is amazing. I love spending times with the alternative Jans, even if the voice acting is abit stilted at times, there are some really good story choices and I love the goofy live action movies you can watch. Then there is the actual game. which is repetative and boring as dirt. I was desperate for the game to end at the beginning of act 3 and yet it kept going. The whole Act 3 could have been cut I feel. I would have been ALOT more warm on this game and would certainly have considered replaying to see the alters I didn't see IF the game was 10 hours shorter. I did like the ending so I am still left with a fairly positive impression even if the game feels WAY too bloated.
Recommended Jul 11, 2026
This game has great human interactions and makes you ask philosophical questions.
Recommended Jul 11, 2026
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Recommended Jul 11, 2026
My new favorite game by far. It pulls you in with the space exploration and ethical dilemmas. It keeps you hooked with the amazing psychologically accurate narrative and NPC behavior. This is the first time a game teaches me lessons that are useful in real life. I'm happy I played it and I'm definitely going to play it again making different choices. I highly recommend this to anyone.
Recommended Jul 11, 2026
Easily one of my all-time favourites. The devs nailed just about everything here; the story was amazing, the characters felt real, difficult decisions needed to be made, and the gameplay kept me hooked.

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