
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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Ask friend: "Are you good at math?" Proceed to get stumped at a transmission that prompted you to ask in the first place. Agree to just start over a new run so you can both go through the game together, seeing as you are still pretty early on into the game, and all. Start out adding to the dictionary with an air of seriousness. Go through everything with logic, generally basic calculations, etc. "ADD, .DEC, MIN, MUL, DIV, VAR, ..." "Let's call this one..." Start derailing the definitions. "SEAL, FLOUR, LIES, FRIES, MOVIES, SKITTLE, BALD, ..." Get dialogues like : "They're just lumpin' a bunch of BURGERS's together." Get amazing comms like : "Okay, so they're SAUCE... and we're PASTA..." Go through each transmission while using the butchered dictionary with a straight face. yep. this has become my life for the past week. good game
The puzzles aren't overly difficult (although you may want to be sure that you remember your high school level physics, chemistry, math, logic, and a bit of grammar), but the difficulty is just right to make the narrative very satisfying to uncover. I really enjoyed my time with this game, it even made me feel a few feelings. Now this may be a fairly niche thing to mention, but I'm very particular about the narrative content of the media I engage with. To put it bluntly, I've got political "PTSD" and I can hardly play or watch anything these days without being annoyed by the inclusion of half-baked political propaganda of one flavour or another, whether I agree with it or not. I found this game very refreshing because, without spoiling anything, the narrative touches alien cultural issues that are truly alien and have no connection to any contentious human cultural issues you might be sick and tired of hearing about. This game really is about learning about aliens and not a thinly veiled excuse for the writers to tell people what they should think. I'm very grateful that some truly creative people are out here making such unique and interesting games, who are actually dedicated to exploring the extremes of what it could mean to live as a species that is significantly unlike us. Great work, bravo, I look forward to whatever this developer may create next.
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 1.1K reviews with recorded playtime.
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Aliens are weird man
This game is amazing. I feel like I don't have much to say, because if you look at this game's steam page and understand the concept, and decide it's of interest to you, there's no way you're not sold already. I took 40 hours of playtime to work through the whole game, and I'm writing this as I stay up late, as I write this soon after my completion. There will be times where you'll be tearing your hair out and then sitting there for 10 minutes trying different things in desperation to make progress. Sometimes you just need to save and quit, and pick it up tomorrow. The fresh mindset really does help. But I promise you that all of the prompted answers are fairly reasonable. Getting to be a part of the story with the cast of characters that keep you company during the game was delightful. The dialogue oozes charm and authenticity, and the things you learn in your translations are very engaging. I like to say that I'm not very easily moved by stories, but this one got a good hit on me. If this game looks cool, then get it. Simple as that.
Gorgeous little game but having two in game screens and not being able to see the message while I'm responding to it is infuriating
What a beautiful game. Great soundtrack, excellent puzzles and story. Might be the best game I've played all year. Definitely the best translation game I've ever played. If you have any tolerance for science quizzing, with the possibility of needing to look up information from outside the game, you owe it to yourself to play this.
Es una obra de arte
INSTANTLY fell in love with this - a fantastic approach to a simple premise: What if you had to decode a translation completely and utterly from scratch? This game functions both as an exercise in calculation and decoding and a legitimate prototype for how humans could send a similar kit elsewhere in the stars to make sure our message could translate over. So excited to play more!!!
I'm enjoying the game a lot, and so I can't leave a "No" review.... but MY GOODNESS your coworkers' dialogue in this game is annoying!! I've never wished that game characters would just SHUT UP so much before in my life. I've never fantasized about killing game characters before. I've never minimized a game while I'm playing it so that I could come and write a review about how much I hate the characters' dialogue before in my life.
ALIEN BRAIN IS BIG -> ALIEN HA METEOR MAKE CAN DESU
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