The Alters is a fun contradiction: it is both an amalgamation and deconstruction of many survival and simulation game elements that came before it.
Qt3's Tom Chick - "An ambitious exploration of a garden of forking paths...that gets lost down in the weeds."
VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "While not carrying the same heft it enjoyed long ago, last year was one of the adventure genre's most commercially-successful years in this century. A Telltale-esque adventure eclipsing 3 million sales in three months would be the talk of the town were it not for another adventure game hurdling over 10 million sales in two. Though not all finalists reached those heights, each did share a greater amount of spotlight compared to similar titles within their respective sub-genres.
Past any sales thresholds and popularity contests, 2025 also deserves credit for its creativity; the last time our entire shortlist consisted exclusively of new IPs was for Best Adventure Game of 2020. An impressive year for the genre, with even greater potential ahead."
The Alters is a well-optimized game, requiring a fairly recent hex-core or octa-core CPU for 60 FPS at high settings: Ryzen 7 5800X or the Core i7-8700K. A GeForce GTX 1660 (or Radeon RX 5600 XT) is sufficient for running the game at 1080p 60 FPS using the medium quality settings.
