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Message From Aliens Demo

Explore an alien logographic writing system with over 1,000 glyphs, from their number system to their culture and thought.

Release date
September 17, 2026
Platforms
Windows
Developer
Artless Games
Publisher
Artless Games
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In year 2058, Earth received a large number of mysterious symbols from space. Who are they? Where are they from? And more importantly, what are they talking about? Message From Aliens is a sci-fi puzzle game about decoding an alien language. The entire game interface is written in mysterious symbols, and the only human language you can see in this game is your own notes. Features: 1. An alien logographic writing system with over 1,000 characters, and more than 20,000 characters of game text.

You don't need to translate everything if you want to reach the game's ending. And there is plenty of content and secret if you want to explore more.2. Don't be scared by the number of characters. The alien logograms are designed to be more logical and less complex than human logograms.3. The first chapter of this game introduces alien number system. Most of the alien texts are just equations. (Alien Carl Sagan also believes math is the universal common knowledge.)And the last chapter includes alien peotry and alien joke.

4. In-game alien-alien dictionary. (Full version of the dictionary is not available in the demo.)5. This game is inspired by the novels Stories of Your Life and Contact. In fact, you are playing both protagonist's role, interpreting alien signals and deciphering an alien writing system. Don't worry. Playing game will not teleport you to light-years away, or turn your understanding of time non-linear.6.…

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★ 9.2/10Steam · 218 ratings
SteamLast checked November 3, 2026

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> press button > Game closes - oh? > Start game > Press same button again > Game closes - maybe "exit" button? >Start game…
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Do you ever find a game and feel "This game was tailored precisely for me"? That it hits you *just* right? This game is that…
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What a cool idea for a game, especially having even the UI in the alien glyphs. I was about to write a bug report because…
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Genuinely game of the year potential right here. Excellent premise with a great execution. It's a very simple game but the way it opens itself…
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To echo others: the dev really needs to not have inscrutible symbols open browser links without warning the player. I still remember the first day…
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The demo has over 730 glyphs. I've translated 702 of them and there are still more to discover. After playing a while and translating them,…
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Clicked around, found math homework, completed math homework. Fun game, will play more!
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I beat the demo and I liked it. However I think it's waaaay to hard. Some words where easy to guess even without full description,…

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this game is so confusingly interesting, like i absolutely recommend getting outside help from things, and possible getting hints if you get stuck, otherwise, explore…
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Interesting game concept. I am making good progress in the math sections. I hope there is Pi.
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It was fun until I just kept seeing math problems that just didn't feel fun anymore. Chants of Sennaar does a good job with gamifying…
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What a cool Concept! i only play the demo so far, but its really great! Math is hard xD
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ive pressed the close button 5 times and every time it does the same thing and im always surprised
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Very very fun game if you're really autistic Genuinely very well put together; most of your discoveries flow together and there isn't really a point…

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