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I went into The Alters expecting a fairly standard survival-management game dressed in sci-fi aesthetics, but it turned out to be much more personal and emotional than I ever anticipated. The setup is simple but powerful: you are Jan, stranded on a hostile planet, and your only hope is creating alternate versions of yourself based on different life choices. It sounds strange at first, but once you meet these alternate selves, the concept clicks in a way that feels both unsettling and fascinating.
What surprised me most is how quickly I connected with the different Alters. They aren’t just workers or resource bots. Every Alter has their own personality, memories, frustrations, and opinions about who you are and who they could have been. Sometimes they admire you, sometimes they resent you, and sometimes they just want to be seen as more than a tool. Managing their emotional states becomes just as important as keeping your base functional, and that human element is what gives the game real weight.
The base-building and survival aspects are solid all the way through. Expanding your shelter, managing production lines, fixing broken modules, and constantly staying ahead of the deadly sun chasing you across the landscape creates a sense of urgency that never fully lets go. Something always needs attention, whether it’s a power shortage, a malfunctioning piece of equipment, or an Alter feeling overlooked. Solving these issues makes every bit of progress feel earned.
What really impressed me is how the moral choices hit harder than in most games. When the people you’re trying to manage are literally versions of yourself, every decision feels more personal. Do you push an Alter to exhaustion? Do you try to comfort one who feels purposeless? Do you risk everything to resolve one’s emotional crisis? It made me stop and think more than once.
The game isn’t flawless. Some tasks repeat a bit too often and certain emotional arcs become predictable. But The Alters blends storytelling and survival in a way that feels genuinely unique. By the end, I wasn’t just trying to stay alive. I was trying to look after this odd, fragile family of alternate me’s.
If you enjoy management games with strong narrative depth, The Alters is absolutely worth your time.
Other than an interesting concept. There is nothing out of the ordinary here. Except how the story unfolds. There are some moments that will make you think and even challenge your own moral code.
The Alters has a really interesting premise where you create alternate versions of yourself, each with different skills to survive and progress. At first, it feels fresh and creative, but the novelty wears off quicker than i expected. The gameplay loop leans too heavily on repetition and the pacing drags at times. While the story is engaging in places, the mechanics don’t always match the emotional weight the game is going for.
The Alters is a very good game that mixes survival, base and colony management.
You start alone and stranded on a planet and need to survive until you are rescued while the planet slowly tries to cause your demise by radiation, starvation or any kind of accident
The special material that is on this planet, and the secret reason why you ended there, is the one that actually creates the gameplay core, you can clone any living being and even alter his / her past decisions, and so you create new versions of the same living being.
And here is where the protagonist needs help to survive and he gets it by cloning himself, altering his past life decisions and getting different versions of himself that will help him manage the base and build new structures and tools to help survive, using knowledge the original one doesn’t have
You, the original Jan, are the only one who can go outside to gather materials, place farming structures and decide what to build
And inside the base is where all the alters relationships happen, they have a different past in which they took different decisions and they all interact among themselves and with you questioning your decisions and motivations, and that may lead to the whole colony of clones surviving or demise.
All the possible clones are predetermined and scripted you can’t get all of them in one run, so all the possible interactions and dialogs are all scripts based on the alters and your decisions, what I mean is that it is not as random as Crusader Kings 3 or Rimworld story generators, all possibilities are all already written and ready in the game.
And so the objective is to survive until you are rescued and deal with the decisions you took and take and of course try to save you clones, they are all you after all.
One of the most fun and interesting games I’ve played of the genre!
I absolutely love base management games, but always got tired after playing for too long because these types of games can get repetitive after time. But The Alters does an amazing job of balancing the gameplay between survivability, base management and relationship with your alters, which makes the gameplay so much more dynamic.
As I said, these types of games can get a bit repetitive, which I felt a little in Act 3 of the game. Nothing too major, just needed to take a small break before continuing.
The Alters has a very well written story, making you want to know more and more about each and everyone of your alters. Each one has such a different personality, that most times you forget you’re all supposed to be the same person.
But what shines the brightest in the game, in my opinion, is the relationship status you have to manage between everyone in the crew. As you progress, more difficult choices are introduced. Each has its own consequences that were quite difficult to choose from.
Overall an incredible game!