
Mission: Translate an interstellar message, using the universal languages of math & science.
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The Message from Deep Space is an odyssey of puzzles. Take the role of the mission's Translator, working alongside a scrappy band of scientists, and venture headfirst into the world of deciphering an alien language --- completely from the ground up.
Set in 1973, Earth is the recipient of a meteorite that broadcasts radio waves. In the role of the mission's Translator, the player is responsible for designing responses to the meteorite's transmissions, which, if correct, will elicit new messages from the meteorite. Only through this radio wave dialogue will patterns, words, syntax, and meaning all take form, leaving but one question:
What is it the aliens want to say?
Translate an alien language
Learn about an alien civilization
Interface with a retro computer
Manage a user-driven dictionary
Design radio transmissions by frequency
Collaborate with scientists that respond to your actions
+1000 in-game dialogues
+30 minutes OST
+30 hours of gameplay
Inspired by The Golden Record aboard the Voyager I space probe, The Message from Deep Space takes a realistic approach to deciphering an interstellar message. Beginning with the limited universal constants available to technologically advanced civilizations, the message spans a range of real-world fields of math & science. Decoding the message is tough, but with the support of the game's meticulous linguist, the single-minded computer programmer, and the affable astronomer, it is a challenge fit for anyone with Curiosity and Perseverance.
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Oh my god. This is going to sound so nerdy but I mean it with 100% sincerity. This game fulfills one of my long-held sci-fi wishes, which is to see first contact built up from first principles. Arrival is fine. Project Hail Mary is a little better. But THIS game is exactly the story the little astronomy & linguistics nerd in me has been waiting for forever. I worry that I can't recommend this to any of my friends because it so perfectly fits a niche I'm interested in. I worry I can't recommend it because maybe I'm leaning on a CS and Astronomy background that my friends don't have. But you better be sure that I WILL be recommending this to everyone, because Bautista is bae and everyone needs to meet him.
I haven't finished the game yet, but so far, it's one of my top games of all time. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since I played the demo, and I've been recommending the full release to just about everyone I know. It's definitely confusing at times, but every time something just clicks with a frequency definition it makes it all worth it. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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Languages: English
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Really impressive. If you're a math or linguistic nerd it's mandatory, buy immediately.
Good game, I'm stupid
This game is catnip for neurodivergent turbonerds, and i mean that positively. 11/10
this rock making my brain do backflips
体裁挺好的,各种设计演出也很不错,但内容的分布上有点头重脚轻的感觉,对后三分之一到四分之一的内容不是很满意
It makes you feel like such an amazing problem solver, and I think emulates first contact very well.
Despite some small UX issues, it might be one of my favourite deductive games ever - bloody brilliant linguistics work, and really appeals to a fundamental understanding of mathematics as the only objective language in the world, that which you can build on :D
@-136_UNDEF you were a real one
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