The Message from Deep Space

I really wanted to like this game, in theory its absolutely up my street, but it suffers from a lot of problems. The biggest is that the problems are super repetitive, and the game always feels like its padding for time. Its normally spectacularly obvious when you've solved a concept after the first couple of puzzles, but the first few acts so far are a massive detour through super basic algebra and physics, with very little 'game', repeating the same class of puzzles again and again and again The fun part of the game is trying to decode the meaning of new symbols and learning about the aliens, but its actually a surprisingly small portion of the game. In fact, interacting with the story, or the fact that there are extraterrestrials takes a backseat to solving incredibly repetitive geometry and basic maths problems. Why? I have no idea, but its very boring a lot of the time. I was pretty surprised that there wasn't more alien in my game about contact with extraterrestrials It feels like there's the core of a good idea here that was absolutely padded to the gills to stretch the game's runtime out. It'd be a much more fun game if there were 1/3rd of the puzzles, but as it is its hard to recommend given how much of it is spent re-solving the same incredibly basic set of maths/logic puzzles while nothing happens

Absolutely enthralling start to finish. I had my little pen and paper out the entire time and I think I filled up about 8 pages of notes trying to recall high school level maths. It was challenging but never frustrating, with an absolutely banging soundtrack in the background to keep me going. The characters and story are super fun and emotional and I started tearing up at multiple points. My Game Of The Year for sure, please please please play this.

That's COOL!

I never thought a puzzle game that is basically just typing messages into a computer might make me cry, but the story of this game has most certainly had a profound impact on me. It's absolutely incredible

This is perhaps the most pleasant surprise that I've ever had with a game in a long time. It had a great amount of depth with the puzzles for a simple premise, but what really locked it down as an all-time favorite for me was the story and the characters surrounding it. Nothing is wasted - the little anecdotes from the characters and the quirks of their personalities build up lovely individual story arcs for each one of them. There's a real sense of emotional connection between you, the characters, and the aliens through their message, and that's what elevates this good codebreaker game to great. Some of the puzzles are a little obtuse with answer format (there's a number of times where I know the SEMANTICS of what to respond, but the SYNTAX is just not accepted), but the overarching narrative and wanting to see more interactions from the characters was more than enough to motivate me to continue. Overall, just a lovely experience, one that I'll be thinking about for a long time.

Esta es una de las mejores experiencias que me ha dado el videojuego.

这外星人是不是脑子有毛病，起手就是几百道数学题。运算符瞎JB定义，没个优先级也就算了，前后语法都能不一样的。UI也和屎一样，根本看不清。这破游戏，请问作者自己玩过吗？