Planet Alpha
Planet Alpha is an adventure set in a living alien world where you have the ability to manipulate the daytime. To survive on this strange planet you will have to be observant of how the environment and the…
Planet Alpha is an adventure developed by Planet Alpha ApS, released 4 September 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.72 at GameBillet.
What Planet Alpha is
Planet Alpha is an adventure game developed by Planet Alpha ApS and released in 2018. It was published by Team17. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Planet Alpha is an adventure set in a living alien world where you have the ability to manipulate the daytime. To survive on this strange planet you will have to be observant of how the environment and the wildlife behaviour changes depending on the time of day.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 16 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Planet Alpha holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2550K (3.4 GHz) / AMD FX-4350 (4.2 GHz), 4 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 660 (2GB) / AMD Radeon HD 7850 (2 GB). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.72 at GameBillet, 91% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Planet Alpha launched on 4 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Planet Alpha yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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