First Contact
Haguy Eis · 2020 · Aliens, Science, Sci-fi, Adventure, Pixel Graphics
PC
6 user reviews100% · 6
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About First Contact
Join the search for extra-terrestrial intelligent life. Analyze strange radio signals, decipher hidden messages, symbols, sounds, and translate alien languages. Use various tools and instruments to uncover deep and ancient mysteries. Follow an engaging storyline with countless dialogues and game-changing choices.
Features:
First Contact is the first video game developed by the indie game studio Eis Interactive.
Follow the development blog on our website for information about future updates and more.
Mature Content Description
While mostly harmless, this game may contain content not appropriate for all ages. It contains references to violent acts and crude humor.
Features:
- Engage in an immersive adventure as you lead a team of scientists to uncover hidden mysteries in outer space.
- Solve different types of puzzles. Some can be quite challenging.
- Analyze radio signals originating from outer space using instruments inspired by the SETI research program and popular science fiction.
- Translate alien languages and attempt to communicate with aliens.
- Your choices matter. Making dialogue decisions when communicating with both human characters and alien characters has an impact on how the story unfolds and how it ends.
- Research technologies to build and use different types of tools and instruments.
- Discover distant stars systems and exoplanets. Determine if discovered exoplanets can sustain life.
- In-game tutorials help you understand how to use different scientific equipment. Learn about radio waves, galactic and equatorial coordinate systems, and other exciting stuff.
- The story is rich with humor, character intrigue, and homage to popular culture. Watch for the hidden easter eggs!
- The game features original pixel art graphics and soundtracks.
First Contact is the first video game developed by the indie game studio Eis Interactive.
Follow the development blog on our website for information about future updates and more.
Mature Content Description
While mostly harmless, this game may contain content not appropriate for all ages. It contains references to violent acts and crude humor.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise this quirky adventure game for its engaging and unusual puzzle mechanics centered around deciphering radio signals and communicating with aliens, which deliver educational value and creative problem-solving reminiscent of classic sci-fi franchises. However, some criticize the clunky UI, overly hand-holding tutorials that prevent natural progression, and a naive story that, while occasionally exciting, feels less polished than the core gameplay. Despite these rough edges, most consider it a hidden gem at its price point with genuinely fun and memorable puzzle design.
Nice adventure built around deciphering radio signals. Story is terribly naive, yet still manages to deliver enough exciting moments.4 found this helpful
A small game about analyzing the signals and communicating with aliens. Both of these parts are quite interesting and fun.3 found this helpful
I was looking for some game about radio analysis and stumbled upon this one. To my surprise along with nice gamification of radio job I got strong vibes of Star Trek and Stargate series. For its price it's definitely a hidden gem!2 found this helpful
An amazing game! Such unusual mechanics, it makes this game seem as Undertale!2 found this helpful
I feel Like I learned a ton of stuff playing this game.2 found this helpful
Curious and delightful game. Feels like a port of some forgotten 1980s classic, complete with slightly clunky UI (watching your character sslloowwllyy walk into the room *every* time you enter a room). But the core puzzle/adventure gameplay is good fun. It's a mix between "go and talk to people to advance the story" and the content you're here for, the language and radio astronomy puzzles. It's a bit annoying how hand-holdy the tutorials are; we had one moment on the astronomy machine when we'd found exactly the picture we were meant to find in the recorded transmission, but the tutorial wouldn't advance until we set the parameter to some incorrect value first to "get a feeling for" what the right values should be. The language interpretation is the most fun bit, but in the end you're choosing between four guesses about what a symbol means, and in some cases several of those meanings are very close to each other ("Ocean" and "Sea" as "different" options? really?) We found it more fulfilling to bring up Task Manager blocking out the four spoilery multiple-choice solutions, and just page through all the symbols in an alien language forming our own guesses first; only once we felt …
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