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Is Over the Alps worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players of narrative adventures who want choices to shape a spy story
- Readers who prefer interactive fiction with branching paths and multiple endings
- Espionage fans interested in stories set across wartime Switzerland and North Africa
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players looking for action-led gameplay rather than a story built around choices
- Players who want map-based navigation, animations, and translations in the third chapter
- Players seeking a single, linear story rather than branching outcomes
Our take on Over the Alps
Rather than centering a spy story on gadgets or direct combat, Over the Alps presents the mission through written postcards and decisions. Its chapter structure also shifts locations and protagonists, with the final chapter following a contact in 1942 North Africa.
What is Over the Alps?
Over the Alps is a single-player narrative game about espionage in 1930s Switzerland.
Players go undercover, evade police, and send coded reports to a handler through postcards written in invisible ink. Choices shape the story as the agent charms, deceives, or strong-arms people, with branching paths, multiple endings, and secret stamps to find. The game includes two stories with more than 102,000 words and over 2,600 choices, set among Swiss Alpine landscapes inspired by vintage travel posters.
Its third chapter, The Devil's Quill, continues the story in 1942, following Aubrey on a mission in North Africa. That chapter is a browser-based release with 42,000 words and over 1,100 choices, and omits the maps, translations, and animations found in the paid chapters.
How Over the Alps plays
- 01Branching story
- Decisions can lead to different endings and uncover collectible secret stamps.
- 02Coded postcards
- Reports travel to the agent's handler as messages written with invisible ink.
- 03Changing locations
- The stories move from the Swiss Alps to Aubrey's 1942 mission in North Africa.
- 04Multiple languages
- The game is available in 15 languages, including Chinese, German, Russian, French, and Arabic.
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Over the Alps: platforms & release
Is Over the Alps worth it?
It is worth it if: players of narrative adventures who want choices to shape a spy story. Skip it if: players looking for action-led gameplay rather than a story built around choices.
Where can I download Over the Alps?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Over the Alps's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Over the Alps on?
Windows and macOS.
