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Michael Hoglund

The Alters is my frontrunner for indie game of the year, as it painfully reflects my family's mortality and life's itinerary

Jan Dolski overlooking his dead crew member.

Developed by the ever-creative 11 Bit Studios, creators of Frostpunk, other amazing games, and publishers of even more, comes the "must-play" hit, The Alters. A masterpiece in decision-based gameplay that is fully realized in the outcomes based on said choices.

The Alters has surpassed my expectations of what indie games can achieve. In the past few years, it seems almost every smash indie game, except for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, has been something more like the drug-dealing simulations of Schedule I.

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