PLANET ALPHA (2018)

PLANET ALPHA is a 2018 Indie game by Planet Alpha ApS, rated ★ 3.4 by 62 players, about 3 hours long. Below: 12 games like it, ranked by how much they share with it.

★ 3.4 from 62 players Metacritic 71 About 3h to play #400 in Indie 63% finish it

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Overview

A 2018 Indie release, PLANET ALPHA can be played on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Across 62 player ratings it holds a 3.4/5 average. It outranks 45% of the catalog on rating alone. Within Indie it ranks #400 of 1192 games by our quality score. Average playtime is 3 hours — a short run you can finish in a weekend, about 2% shorter than the Indie average. Critics gave it a Metacritic score of 71 — 3 points below the Indie average.

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What players actually do with it

63%finish it▲ genre avg 49%

52%positive ratings62 votes

4playing now

19on wishlists

19gave upvs 33 beat it

Recommended 42%Meh 36%Skip 13%

Finish rate = players who marked it beaten ÷ (beaten + dropped) on RAWG. Wishlist and playing-now counts refresh with every sync.

Platforms & availability

Platform	Family	Release
Nintendo Switch	Nintendo	Sep 2018
PC	PC	Sep 2018
PlayStation 4	PlayStation	Sep 2018
Xbox One	Xbox	Sep 2018

Can my PC run PLANET ALPHA?

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: 5000 MB available space