The Alters Gets Alternate Release Date, Sci-Fi Survival Game Delayed into 2025

Sci-fi survival game The Alters from developers 11 Bit Studios has been hit with a delay and is now expected to launch sometime in early 2025. In a refreshing statement, president Przemysław Marszał said that "after so many years of production, the risk that the game will have any shortcomings is unnecessary for us."

Marszał made the remarks to Polish finance publication bankier.pl (thanks, IGN), explaining: "The production schedule for The Alters was very tight. There was uncertainty as to whether the developers would have enough time to complete all the work to meet the quality we all expected."

The Alters strands players in the space boots of Jan, an amnesiac miner who must create alternate versions of himself to survive on a hostile, alien planet. Known for creating strategy-adjacent games with particularly bleak atmospheres, the developer is perhaps best known for This War of Mine, and recently released on PC (but still coming to PS5) the survival city-builder Frostpunk 2.