Altera is a hardcore, realistic, unforgiving military survival sandbox, so of course it features penguin soldiers with reflex sights on their heads

On the face of it, Altera looks like a typical military survival sandbox. It’s a game about wandering through a massive, vaguely central European landscape in military camo, building a base, crafting useful items, and taking on missions from dead-eyed NPCs to shoot other dead-eyed NPCs in authentic ranged combat. It’s basically DayZ without the zombies, PUBG without the competition, ArmA without the sensation that you’re piloting your character like a mech.

In short, Altera couldn’t be more down to Earth if it had fallen into the Kola superdeep borehole, which is of course why it features penguin soldiers. What’s that? Your country doesn’t have penguin soldiers? Well, we know who’s going to be conquering who, don’t we?