First Contact

Nice adventure built around deciphering radio signals. Story is terribly naive, yet still manages to deliver enough exciting moments.

A small game about analyzing the signals and communicating with aliens. Both of these parts are quite interesting and fun.

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!

An amazing game! Such unusual mechanics, it makes this game seem as Undertale!

I feel Like I learned a ton of stuff playing this game.

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 …