PLANET ALPHA

PLANET ALPHA, a beautiful alien world filled with mystery and danger. Pursued by relentless enemies, you must harness the power of night and day as you struggle to survive.

PLANET ALPHA is a adventure, indie and action game developed by Planet Alpha ApS and published by Team17 Digital Ltd.
Released on September 04th 2018 is available only on Windows in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 1,018 reviews of which 717 were positive and 301 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.8 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 1.99€ on Steam and has a 80% discount.

The Steam community has classified PLANET ALPHA into these genres:

Adventure Indie Action Platformer Atmospheric 2.5D Aliens Side Scroller Sci-fi Space Exploration Survival Singleplayer Stealth Puzzle-Platformer

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i5-2550K (3.4 GHz) / AMD FX-4350 (4.2 GHz)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 660 (2GB) / AMD Radeon HD 7850 (2 GB)
Storage: 5 GB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Dec. 2024

85/100 - Great design of alien sceneries and retrofuturistic machines, easy puzzles, the story is open to interpretation, the main character doesn't have personality (too bad), epic little escape and chase sequences. The game may crash in the first minute but the solution is simple and is avaible in the discussions.

Oct. 2024

I give this game a rank C (60-65%) Okay game - not bad but you can skip it or try on sale. See my profile for more details about my reviews. I give Planet Alpha around 62%: it is definitely not a bad game, but there is a reason why this game barely has 68% on Steam, and why the small team did not do anything much after it. It feels like it was full of good ideas, but final realisation is just mediocre. Actually, there are several reasons! If you know and/or like games like Limbo/Inside, you KNOW what to expect, and that is the very first problem with Planet Alpha: nothing new here, just a gameplay we already saw before, and which is not a very engaging gameplay in the first place. Very casual platformer, of "keep going right or left, jump if you are stuck, move that block here to jump on that platform, avoid the enemies, just run away". That's about it. They try introducing a new mechanism halfway of "changing the time", but as it is just using L and R buttons to modify the environment, it does not add any depth to the whole thing really. They even mostly let it go towards the end... The tag "walking simulator" could almost be applied to this game, as this 2.5D scroller is very forward, and almost plays by itself. Very casual, very easy: you can ram through most of the platform sequences, most of the time it will be okay. You may die once or twice each time, but it could be from a bug, clunky physics or simple awkward game play. The puzzles are elementary, the platform boring... ...so what's left? why giving this game 62% and not 30%? I think the art direction in Planet Alpha was very good. It really wanted to tell a story, it tried many camera angles, many narrative features, and also many changes of scenery, colors and lights which were, in the end, very pleasant. I am not a big fan of flat tessellation, so I am not entirely sold on the look of Planet Alpha (for me, it also feels very generic, very abstract, very deja vu), but I can't help admiring the scenery: huge, colorful planet, full of life, buzzing fauna and flora, lush nature, hostile yet mesmerizing environment. Then antagonistic, retro sci-fi enemies, so cool looking and scary. Very alien technology. Lots, lots has been done in Planet Alpha to give it a LOOK and a LORE that are attractive. And the music by Barnhoorn is always a pleasure, this guy deserves to be called for so many better projects. So in the end, you get a not attractive "game", in an attractive "environment". A mediocre content in a good container, so on average 62% is sadly what it deserves. Around 6 hours to finish, probably a few more to get the 100% ending. I would have wanted to do it, but the gameplay is just too boring. I reckon most people will forget this game - but if you love Limbo-like games, buy it on sale? it is still a unique one in that category, and I would have wanted a better game within the same universe. Hem is live on [url=https://www.twitch.tv/hemandwatch]Hem & Watch

July 2024

This is great value for money. Fun game, very well done graphics. The beginning was a bit odd and there was a little bug with screen dimensions, but ez to fix and get past. I think it's one of the better under $10 games i've played.

June 2024

took me longer than it should have to finish this game but thats a skill issue. 10/10 !! fun puzzles, visually beautiful even though the creatures sounded like my tummy when i dont got my snacks xD i reallly reallly enjoyed this game that i had to replay some chapters just to get all the achievement and im glad i did because the ending was different. also i wonder if the world/story is just Spacecore limbo

Feb. 2024

This is a great 2D puzzle game with some pretty amazing art. You definitely have to make sure you are constantly looking in the background or you will miss something. The only negative thing i have to say about this game as there are still a few bugs here and there that need to be worked out. otherwise, highly recommend

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