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Stranded on a lethal planet, Jan builds a mobile base, explores for resources, and creates alternate selves to keep it running.
Released 13 Jun 2025
Create Alternate Jans
Outrun the Sun
Build a Moving Base
Experience an award-winning, story-driven sci-fi survival game. Help Jan Dolski, the survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoil with his unconventional crew.
Developed by 11 bit studios · Published by 11 bit studios
You play as Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of a space expedition stranded on a hostile planet. To operate the crew’s mobile base and escape, he uses the planet’s resources and quantum technology to create alternate versions of himself, each shaped by different choices in his life.
Explore the planet’s surface to gather materials, investigate anomalies, and establish resource outposts while managing exposure to radiation and the approaching sun. Back at the base, expand and arrange rooms, craft supplies, research technologies, and assign the Alters tasks suited to their skills.
Time and resources constrain each stage of the journey, so you must balance expeditions, base operations, and the crew’s needs. Conversations and decisions shape relationships with the Alters and contribute to the story’s development across new locations.
Players who connect with The Alters often praise its premise of meeting versions of Jan shaped by different life choices, and the character-focused story built around them. Reviews also frequently appreciate the voice performances, atmosphere, and the blend of exploration, base management, and difficult decisions. Some find the Alters’ needs and the resource-gathering routine engaging, while others feel these systems become repetitive or stressful.
You have crash-landed on a lethal, radiation-soaked planet, and you are running out of time. A scorching sun that burns everything in its path is coming your way. Your only hope of survival is a massive mobile base too complex for one person to operate. You are forced to make a decision no human has ever faced: creating a crew of alternative versions of yourself.
But your solution may just become your biggest problem.
You crashed. You are entirely alone. The sun is a death sentence, and your mobile base must keep moving to outrun it. With no rescue coming, you must find a way to operate it, or you’ll die.
When the planet itself is your enemy, every second spent standing still brings you closer to ash.
To survive, you must move. To move, you need help. Forced to use the base’s advanced quantum technology and the planet’s unique resources, you must create The Alters: alternative versions of yourself. Brought to life by a supercomputer that turned your alternative life choices into reality, they are your only hope. They bring the specific expertise and capable hands you drastically lack, but they also bring their own human baggage.
A crew of ‘yourselves’ is a psychological nightmare. Every Alter arrives with distinct personalities, memories, and regrets. You aren't just managing resources. You are also a relationship manager to yourself, mediating conflicts and confronting your past choices lightyears from home.
As tensions rise, your Alters will clash over how to handle the mission. Keep them sane and keep them together, or your own egos will destroy your only chance of seeing Earth again.
Your rolling base is your lifeline, your factory, and your home. Customize and upgrade it to accommodate your growing crew. Research cutting-edge technologies, manage crucial life-support gear, and manufacture what you need to survive. Turn your base into a self-sustaining powerhouse capable of keeping both your crew fed and your systems humming.
You cannot hide inside the hull forever. To fuel your base and progress your research, you must step out onto the hostile planet's surface. Venture out into unpredictable anomalies and heavy radiation to mine essential resources.
But watch the clock, as every expedition is a high-stakes gamble against the oncoming burning sunrise.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 63 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 85/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
