The Alters | Complete Guide

All the guides you need for The Alters, in one handy place.

Adam Cook June 12, 2025

To say it’s been a long wait for The Alters might be an understatement, so our complete guide to The Alters is here to help you maximise your time with the game.

Whether you’re wanting some simple tips to help you with the more confusing elements, or if you just want help managing your alters to maximise efficiency, we’re here for you. The game can throw an awful lot at you right from the start, mixing as it does exploration with resource management and base building, so there’s no shame in feeling a bit overawed.

In our complete guide to The Alters, we’re going to cover things like how to keep your Alters happy, how to maximise efficiency, but also more specific things like how to deal with storms, or just how long it’ll take you to finish the game on your first playthrough.

Most of our individual guides for The Alters are spoiler free, but there is one that does contain spoilers, so we’ve placed that as the last one on our page. Within that individual guide, too, we’ve added spoiler warnings. We don’t want to ruin the game for you, that’s for sure. So here we go, let’s get started with our complete guide to The Alters.