THE ALTERS
Developer/publisher 11 Bit Studios Format PC Release TBA
A man – Jan Dolski – wakes, confused. Barefoot, still dressed for bed, he steps through the hallways of what looks an awful lot like the Nostromo from Alien, arriving in a mess hall to the sound of ’80s Polish pop and a dead body laid out on the table. The body is dressed in a spacesuit, the visor smashed to reveal the frozen face of – pause for dramatic effect – Jan. In fact, all the people crowded around the body have Jan’s face too, styled in a variety of ways. These are his alters, the versions of himself from the other side of the multiverse’s sliding doors, Jans who made different life choices, all somehow here together, stranded on an alien planet. We’re no closer to understanding how The Alters will actually play, but it’s such a stylish and enigmatic introduction to the latest game from Frostpunk developer 11 Bit that it’s hard to mind too much.