I took my alternate-universe self on a pierogi date in the Subnautica-style survival game from This War of Mine's creators, and now I can't wait to see more

What if the team that made This War of Mine mixed Subnautica and Midnight Suns, but instead of Spider-Man and Venom you were juggling your relationship with like 10 clones of a working-class Polish guy?

It may be the most potent question ever asked by a videogame, and the answer is: You'd get The Alters, a sci-fi, survival, base-building, resource-gathering, narrative-heavy thing that I recently got a chance to play for myself, and which releases this year on Steam. You play Jan Dolski,...