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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 1,046 reviews of which 735 were positive and 311 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.8 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 1.99€ on Steam with a 80% discount, but you can find it for 0.91€ on Gamivo.
The Steam community has classified PLANET ALPHA into these genres:
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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
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I enjoyed the game, you shouldn't expect the gameplay on the level of Inside, it's mostly action game especially in the first part. After the first part it became more challenging and smarter, I like it, so you have to give it time. The world, creatures flora and fauna of this game is staining, I love it! And for this price is definitely worth it. Developers created a great game, you should definitely try it!
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Kinda just feels like a combination of War of the Worlds, James Cameron's Avatar, and Inside. Like the character you play as even moves like the character from Inside. Not necessarily a bad thing, but the game does just feel like other games I've played, or movies I've watched, plus I had to force it into Windowed Mode to even start it to begin with 'cause it kept opening with only the top left corner blown up on my screen, and it won't let me access the Settings or Quit for some reason; I have to force-close it from the Task Manager. I wouldn't tell anyone *not* to play it, but I also probably wouldn't really recommend it. It's very pretty, though.
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The negative reviews for this game I feel are unjustified and don't accurately portray the games positive concepts. If you don't like a so-called "walking simulator", then why are you purchasing a 2.5D platformer? For me, PLANET ALPHA was an absolute joy to play! It's a colourful and visually appealing alien world with some intriguing art style. A beautiful alien world filled with mystery and danger. Relentlessly pursued by robotic enemies, you must harness the power of day and night as you struggle to survive PLANET ALPHA's invasion. PLANET ALPHA is affected by the solar cycle, and as you progress you’ll discover a unique gift – manipulating the time of day and night allowing you to use the environment to your own advantage. A great 2.5D platformer with very little difficult and only a few mechanics used throughout. Nonetheless, each puzzle still manages to feel rewarding. PLANET ALPHA has great design of alien scenery, retro-futuristic machines, easy puzzles and a unique timeline allowing open story interpretation. There is great flow between stealth and chase sequences leading to some epic escape moments! My only gripe with PLANET ALPHA was the enemy field of vision, it can become rather annoying at times leading to multiple deaths. It seemed like they had x-ray vision majority of the game. However, the death system is quick and starts you back exactly where you died. After learning enemy paths they become very easy to navigate. I also had one game crash towards the last 15-20 mins of my entire play-through, maybe that's something the developers could iron out. PLANET ALPHA in my opinion is a very reasonable price at the lower end of £8 at full price. Meanwhile, being an outstanding price when on sale. It's defiantly one of the better under £10 games that I have played. I thoroughly enjoyed the art-style PLANET ALPHA offers and the fluidity in the games play-ability and puzzles. I would defiantly recommend if you want something quick and easy to run through. PLANET ALPHA was a decent 7.5/10 for me! :D
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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
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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
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PLANET ALPHA is currently priced at 1.99€ on Steam.
PLANET ALPHA is currently available at a 80% discount. You can purchase it for 1.99€ on Steam.
PLANET ALPHA received 735 positive votes out of a total of 1,046 achieving a rating of 6.78.
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PLANET ALPHA was developed by Planet Alpha ApS and published by Team17 Digital Ltd.
PLANET ALPHA is playable and fully supported on Windows.
PLANET ALPHA is not playable on MacOS.
PLANET ALPHA is not playable on Linux.
PLANET ALPHA is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for PLANET ALPHA. Explore additional content available for PLANET ALPHA on Steam.
PLANET ALPHA does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
PLANET ALPHA does not support Steam Remote Play.
PLANET ALPHA is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Planet Alpha ApS
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