
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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It's fine for the demo content, but then there's a bunch of tedium and nonsense for the other 90% of the content. The biology of the aliens is extremely ridiculous and it's clear the devs haven't thought meaningfully about biology or ecology based on the weird things they take for granted. Near the end of the game the definitions of words gets extremely sketchy and you can just plug in what's obviously being asked for and wait for the NPCs to just tell you the unknown words after a cutscene. The game even points out this is happening and calls itself lazy as a "joke", but I think that was just a guilty admission. It's a very ambitious game, it makes sense it couldn't possibly hold together, but it's still super disappointing to play.
Jeu fabuleux, peut-être pas pour tout le monde mais le jeu part d'un cahier de vacances un peu aride à des émotions insoupçonnées. Brillant.
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 1.1K reviews with recorded playtime.
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The Message from Deep Space is a puzzle game which looks, from the outside in, to be about math. If you are even remotely nerdy, it is deeply fun to derive symbols from patterns. You might need a guide for one or two of the later answers (there seems to be a paucity of hints in the latter stage), but that is a very small issue. The game is difficult to put down from the sheer curiosity and wonder it consistently evoked for 20 hours. The fact that abstract sequences of numbers can derive some of the words in this game… is a thing of deep beauty. If you are a fan of Outer Wilds, Project Hail Mary or Arrival, this is an instant recommendation.
Quite possibly the BEST puzzle game I've played. Insanely creative and well-realised premise, great dialogue and humor, great aesthetic, and the coolest puzzles I could think of. There is a LOT of math and science in this game, and a lot of deductions and logic that rely on knowing those fields. I have no idea how you can beat this without being in some sort of STEM field. Happy dictionary, happy life.
Unique and fun.
Framkly its just all maths exams but I still like it.
really good
A great logic/puzzle game, feels like a return of Zachtronics mixed with Chants of Sennaar
This silly little game about deciphering an alien message made me cry. Not because it was hard, but because there was a story moment that touched my heart. The game is better than I'd ever imagine. A must-play.
Immaculate. The best 10 bucks I've spent maybe ever. Brilliantly, BRILLIANTLY designed. If you've ever wandered down the thought trail of how to establish communication from first principles, this game will be an EPIC power fantasy for you. It's MUCH MUCH longer than you might think for this kind of game. The first thirty minutes are a bit trivial for a computer programmer familiar with octal and polish/postfix notation, but it ramps up SIGNIFICANTLY from there. You may even want to play with a friend or two over your shoulder, because it starts to get interdisciplinary real quick. I can't get over how smoothly it builds, and builds, and builds on your deductions. Other rule discovery games touch this, like The Witness or Lingo or perhaps Baba, but this IMO towers over them for pure logic and deduction. It's really, truly incredible. Not just as a game but as a thesis, made digestible by mere humans.
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