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PLANET ALPHA
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“A colorful nice 2.5D puzzle platformer. I enjoyed this journey from start to the end, and completed the game in less than 6h. The visuals seem low poly but they are not, color composition is well chosen and the chapters have nice and different ambiance to each area. It…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“Nice sidescrolling jump & run platformer with some puzzles. No fighting! If you enjoyed Inside, give this 'Sci-Fi Alien on another Planet with Robots' themed Dystopia a chance. The start is a bit slow and unnecessary long, but overall really nice gameplay with beautiful colorful…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Very pretty game with stunning graphics and atmospheric soundscapes. This is a 2D/2.5D platformer with some puzzle elements, where you are thrust into an alien planet scenario where you will have to get rid of or dodge wildlife and technological adversaries alike. Graphics:…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Two new Team17 games to be announced next week!
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We won Best Debut at Nordic Game Awards 2019!
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Discover the invasion of PLANET ALPHA with Raptor!
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PLANET ALPHA - Accolades Trailer!
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Adventure · Indie · Action · Platformer · Atmospheric · 2.5D · Aliens · Side Scroller · Sci-fi · Space · Exploration · Survival (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 16 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.planetalpha-game.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: 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