{"id":11453,"date":"2026-06-09T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/PC\/?p=11453"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:01:27","slug":"acclaimed-sci-fi-survival-game-the-alters-receives-last-variable-dlc-on-july-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/PC\/?p=11453","title":{"rendered":"Acclaimed Sci-Fi Survival Game, The Alters, Receives \u2018Last Variable\u2019 DLC on July 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Aid Jan Scientist in his tireless research in this new, robust, 20-hour-long story arc<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8222;When all others choose to leave, Jan Scientist stays behind on the hostile planet he\u2019s been trapped on with his alters to pursue what could be a life-defining research opportunity. Because this cannot be conducted alone, it becomes the narrative axis of the newest DLC for The Alters &#8211; the personal survival sci-fi game from 11 bit studios that received wide acclaim in 2025. <strong>The Alters: Last Variable<\/strong> releases July 13th on PC and console.<\/p>\n<p>A 20-hour expansion introducing new mechanics, an underground base to build, and a refined gameplay loop centred on terraforming parts of the planet into lush, oasis-like biomes, Last Variable will have you commanding a crew of brilliant minds that look like you, but don\u2019t always think and feel like you. <\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Alters: Last Variable | DLC Date Reveal Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-U13q0hyHfg?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnravelling the mystery of the Oasis requires specialized analysis from specialized alters &#8211; a Geologist, Biologist, Chemist, or Physicist. Yet each Jan has his own view on what science truly means. While you descend into a years-long cryosleep in your underground base, waiting for the planet&#8217;s scorching sun to retreat, those working in Field Labs don&#8217;t have that privilege. As they age without that protection, can the vulnerability of time still change them?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/PC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AYnEPxRd19MYSk79QvfSJyxNrKMTHikITGVUjKm7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Alters: Last Variable, releasing on July 13th.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The next story focuses on Jan Scientist(s): Jan Scientists, with their perfectly aligned minds, can offer the expertise needed to unravel the phenomenon of the Oasis.<\/p>\n<p>Explore new regions and terraform them: Each transformation shifts the landscape, spawns new resources, and awakens the planet\u2019s defensive mechanism &#8211; more frequent earthquakes, severe radiation waves, and other threats.<\/p>\n<p>Expand underground and survive cycles: Build in different soil types, construct new components, and research new modules like the Cryosleep Chamber, which will buy you more time and let you witness the long-term effects of your scientific actions.<\/p>\n<p>Develop new tech and set field labs: Each planetary cooldown offers a brief window to explore a dramatically changed surface, and Field Labs introduces new assignments for alters to continue their work while you cryosleep.&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aid Jan Scientist in his tireless research in this new, robust, 20-hour-long story arc &#8222;When all others choose to leave, Jan Scientist stays behind on the hostile planet he\u2019s been trapped on with his alters to pursue what could be&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,15,26,189,57,58,80],"class_list":["post-11453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dlc","tag-news","tag-pc","tag-trailer","tag-video","tag-videospiel","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/PC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/PC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/PC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/PC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/PC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/PC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11456,"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/PC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453\/revisions\/11456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/PC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/PC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/PC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heimspiele.info\/PC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}