The Message from Deep Space

非常美丽、非常浪漫、非常令人感动的游戏。@-245_UNDEF

This game makes primary school maths fun, outstanding work. Also, the way your team reacts to your decisions has so far been wildly accurate to what I was feeling and thinking. EDIT: It is no longer primary school math.

This is, in my opinion, one of the cleverest and coolest games I've ever seen... Take the "first learning Rocky's language" part of project hail mary... except you're doing it! 100% worth the $10, and I hope the dev keeps making games.

i think it drags a little bit near the end, but its a great game and the experience of figuring out what the aliens are and what they try to tell you is so cool, very cool experience if you like doing math a lot. (there's a lot of math)

I am a graduate student in theoretical chemistry. The game does have some genuinely creative concepts, but it doesn’t adhere all that closely to the mathematics and science it draws on. As someone in the field, there were quite a few moments that honestly got on my nerves. For example, if Bautista had arbitrarily performed the recalibration for us in advance, that would imply that he had been communicating with them much earlier than we had. Hiding that fact from us would essentially amount to a research ethics violation—he would have been withholding relevant data. Or there’s the fact that, at some point, all fractional values somehow start being represented in a way that conveniently assumes our base-10 number system, simply because that’s what our UI uses... I understand that maintaining perfect scientific and mathematical accuracy throughout the game may have been difficult. Still, given how heavily the game sells itself on this particular concept, I found the execution rather disappointing compared with what I had expected.

I like the idea, but in practice I find it a bit too boring and repetitive.

What a fantastic game! Simple, grounded, yet full of soul. I would definitely only recommend it to those with an intense interest for mathematics and the natural sciences. Not that any of the concepts presented are very complex, but not knowing them ahead of time could slow down the game to a crawl. For its intended target audience, it's a brilliant and thoroughly enjoyable puzzle game where the main mechanic is translation, which makes for a perfect mix of problem-solving and self-expression. It is both funny and heartfelt, with an effortlessly sincere writing style. A wonderful piece of sci-fi full of retro charm. While it does have several flaws, namely missing some obvious QoL features and a few subpar puzzles, they are easily outshined by its strengths.