With Halloween approaching, I would really love to see Alpha Polaris make an appearance here on GOG. It's a little-known horror adventure game that deserves a lot more attention than what it's received.

It's set in a lonely research station in Greenland. Brilliant story. Lovely graphics. Intriguing characters. And it gets VERY gory at times!

In the midst of the snowfields of Greenland lies Alpha Polaris, an American oil research station. High above, the ion storm of the century is gathering, bringing about a strange intermixing of reality and night terrors.

It was made by Turmoil Games in 2011, and currently, it's only available on steam. *sad face*
Turmoil Games have a website - http://www.turmoilgames.com/index.html - but I don't see any way to contact them.
I've had the game on cd rom for years, but would love to buy it again here.

Here's a YouTube trailer for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUDYEqHAKz8

There's already a Wishlist entry for it, so please vote for it.
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/alpha_polaris

Voted though it's highly unlikely given that the game has been made permanently free on Steam, ie, there's just no money in selling it here.

Thanks for voting Brian.

There's already several free games here, so I hope that this game could also be added.
Currently, there's no way to get it DRM-free, which is a shame.

Could just be added to the other ones then?

https://www.gog.com/game/samorost_1
https://www.gog.com/game/cayne
https://www.gog.com/game/symphonia
https://www.gog.com/game/jill_of_the_jungle_the_complete_trilogy
https://www.gog.com/game/shadow_warrior_complete
https://www.gog.com/game/the_lords_of_midnight
https://www.gog.com/game/doomdarks_revenge
https://www.gog.com/game/ascendant
https://www.gog.com/game/openttd
https://www.gog.com/game/nomads_of_driftland
https://www.gog.com/game/war_wind
https://www.gog.com/game/loria
https://www.gog.com/game/janosik

Voted.

Fun game, it does run without the Steam client though, so maybe you could use the Steam-cli to download it if you don't want to download the Steam client itself.

If you are looking for little-known Finnish adventure games for Halloween, Alien Incident is actually a better choice, at least in my opinion.

It's not available even on Steam though, so getting it legally might be a challenge.


Anyway, regarding Alpha Polaris, it should run (at least partially) on some ScummVM versions.

There was a developer blog about someone working on ScummVM compatibility for Wintermute 3D games, including Alpha Polaris.

http://gunnar.syzygia.de/index.php/category/gsoc-2020/

The last entry of that blog says:
"The Wintermute games “Alpha Polaris” and “Mental Repair” have been successfully completed with the current port. The graphical output matches the original, at least to my current knowledge."

So I guess it's mostly working with some versions.