The Message from Deep Space

Fantastic

Best most creative puzzle game ever made. I didn't manage to beat it, it gets harder as it goes on. Incredibly rewarding though. There's >900 messages to translate, and by around #450 you're communicating in the alien language in full sentences. Really good game

The best puzzle game I have played. Buy it and play it now.

Remember and grief.

I really love this game. You really do get the full experience of translating an alien language from scratch, and also you get a great simulation of the experience of working closely with a small team of experts over a period of months. It's clear that a lot of attention and care went into this game. You build out your translation from first principles (utter basics, raw numbers) to complete sentences. The process doesn't skip steps or make leaps in logic. Because of this, it can become tedious at times, but also because of this, it's deeply immersive and rewarding. The dialog is really well written, it adds life to the world, stakes to the project, and also gives the player hints and context when There's a crazy amount of dialog and game content for the price, with no filler in sight. It's criminally underpriced at $9.99 USD imo.

i have not played for long and im already hooked

Really good game. But it makes my head hurt. Numbers are hard, Alien numbers are really hard.

This is perhaps the best translation game I have ever played and may ever play. Saying more would ruin it. Try the demo, see if it's for you first. If it is, you'll know.

Fun game. A bit too much math and not enough decyphering.

Exceptional Puzzle game. Full of deep thought, logic and wonder. All of the characters are wonderfully written and now that I have completed the game, I feel like I could go meet Akers or Bautista or Collins at Hot Patties for lunch. Instantly one of my favorite games. Some of the specific signals required me to look up help, because my logic was barking up the wrong tree and I would have never been able to solve it without external direction. The steam discussions page is the best source of hints for something like that. Would recommend this to anyone who has any interest in puzzles, coding, language learning, logic, or philosophy. Difficult, but not "Dark Souls" difficult. Feels good to figure something out more than just looking up hints. Others have compared it to Outer Wilds with "the less you know before, the more you get from it", I agree.