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Life Altered

Life Altered is a roguelike where you build a deck of creature dice and evolve them to battle mutated life forms in turn based combat. Maul your enemies with the honey badger or send them into a world of pain with the bullet ant. Find powerful synergies between a set of specialized characters.

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Senescent Leaf
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About the Game

Use the power of Earth's creatures

Collect creatures like honey badgers, tarantula hawks, mantis shrimps or sequoia trees and use their powers to battle the mutated masses of life forms infected by an alien virus.

Evolve each creature in multiple ways

In Life Altered you can stack multiple evolutions on any creature, increasing their synergetic power. Available evolutions are represented by the classes of your characters, for example "Mammals", "Plants", "Arthropods", "Reptiles" and more.

Rapid gameplay or careful deliberation - the choice is yours

Life Altered is a turn-based game with deep tactical options to consider. As such, players can take as long as they like to decide their actions. You will even be able to unlock Undo/Reset functions after beating the game at its lowest ascension. 

Nevertheless, if you've become familiar with the game's creatures and functions, you will be able to play as fast as you want. There will be no cutscenes or forced lengthy animations slowing you down. 

Choose your party

Experience a sci-fi story based on an alternate history of Earth

Life Altered is about fast and gripping gameplay. Therefore the story is completely optional and will never intrude on the action and playability of the game. However, interested players will be able to discover an intricate backstory starting with a world changing event 300 years ago - the emergence of gifted humans able to control the powers of other life forms. Discover the origin of their powers and how it connects to the alien menace. 

Features

  • Deckbuilding with dice: Experience a new approach to classic deckbuilding and carefully manage the dice that hold your collected creatures. Much care has been taken to mitigate the randomness that come with dice, resulting in a novel gameplay experience.

  • Six classes: Mammals, plants, arthropods, reptiles, aquatic life, microbes - choose your team of three adventurers and discover which combination best suits your playstyle. 

  • Intricate evolution system: Sacrifice a creature to evolve another. The type of evolution is determined by the class of the sacrifice. Stack as many as three evolutions on one creature and experiment with different combinations to find the most powerful synergies. 

  • Customizable ascension: Beat the game many times making it incrementally more difficult. Choose which parts of the game become more challenging with each successful run.

  • Familiar deckbuilding elements: Enjoy staples of the genre like relics, events and elite fights.

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