The Alters Beginner’s Guide

The Alters is a narrative driven game, so one might wonder why you would even need help with it. Well, it has various simple survival and base building elements that also play into the game’s story, which is about a guy who must escape this one planet with the help of alternative versions of himself. In this guide, we will give you a few tips that might help you progress through the various days.

The Alters Beginner’s Guide

Figuring Out How Alters Work

First thing’s first, you are going to want to get the best alters that help with the story’s progress as early as possible. We have a guide on the best alters to unlock first that will help you out with that.

The gist of it is, you should get the scientist as soon as possible, because he is going to be essential in progressing through the game. This is non-negotiable due to how important his role is.

He will unlock the ability to do research, which is something that you will need to do to make any meaningful progress in general. The technician is also another important one, assuming you did not pick either of these two as your starter.

With that out of the way, you are eventually going to need a lot of help to get some much needed resources throughout each day. You cannot do everything on your own, so you will need extra manpower to get through these tough times.

Check out our guide on how to get more alter slots in The Alters for more help in that matter. This will open up opportunities for you to acquire more alters that you can assign to various workstations, such as your mining outposts.

Typically, you would be mining for resources manually, but this takes up a lot of time, which is a precious resource in this game. With the help of alters who are willing to work there, especially the miner, you can skip having to do hard labor and focus on doing other important tasks.

Putting Alters to Work (Correctly)

On that note, make sure that your alters are assigned to the correct spots. Although it is completely fine to have them work on whatever you want them to do, each alter specializes in a specific task.

For example, the technician is much more efficient when assigned to base maintenance. The miner, which we talked about just now,is obviously going to excel at mining metals.

By giving each alter an assignment that they are good at, your efficiency will be off the charts, which will make your progress through the story much smoother. Again, this is not a hard requirement, as you are completely free to assign them elsewhere if needed.

As you progress through the game, you will also need to increase your research level, which is tied to your qubit level. To help with that, check out our handy guide on how to unlock new research tiers in The Alters.

Long story short, this will require both of the alters that we mentioned at the start, and you will have to look around the map in order to find damaged chips that you can repair at the workshop for a cheap price.

Increasing Your Research and Production

With increased research levels, you can unlock new and pretty important tech, such as cheaper climbing, which will give you easier access to places that you will eventually need to go to for certain quests that you will get.

Early on, you should also try and stock up on a lot of repair kits and radiation filters. By getting the technician and workshop early, you can focus on making a lot of these near the start of the game.

You will be using a lot of these to help with base management all throughout the story, so it will pay off massively if you stock up as fast as you can. On that note, your facilities are not the only thing you need to manage.

Taking Care of Your Alters’ Needs

Make sure to pay attention to your alters’ needs and their emotional status. You need to ensure that morale is high or at least not extremely low at all times. Figure out what your alters need and try to solve whatever issues they are having.

It is entirely possible to get a game over if you neglect their needs for a prolonged period of time, as they can eventually rebel and essentially kill you.

Treat it like you are playing The Sims. Check their health so that they are not always sick, hungry, or even injured. Make sure that they are emotionally fine and are not full of anger and frustration. Talk to them regularly and make use of social rooms to help boost the entire crew’s mood.

And those are just some of the basic tips we have for you. Most of the game is fairly straightforward, since it is mainly a narrative driven experience. New mechanics are explained to you regularly through tooltip popups, making it hard to get lost unless you are just skipping through them.

While you are here, go and check out our guide on how to build more mining outposts in The Alters as well. You are going to need plenty of these as you progress through the story and craft all sorts of things, including stuff that will increase your qubit levels and, consequently, your research tiers as well!