Sethian
Sethian is a sci-fi puzzle game in which you master a fictitious language. The only surviving speaker is an ancient computer.
65% of 160 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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Message From Aliens
In 2058, symbols arrive from space, and the whole game is written in them. Decode an alien language of over 1,000 glyphs, starting with their numbers and working up to their poetry and jokes. No hand-holding, no hints: just you, your notes, and the slow joy of a page of nonsense turning into meaning.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Relaxing
94% of 567 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 466$9.99Heaven's Vault
An archaeologist, her robot, and a dead language waiting to be read. Sail the Nebula, dig up artefacts, and piece together a lost history where every guess and every word shapes what happens next.
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84% of 1,983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$24.99Chants of Sennaar
Climb a tower inspired by the myth of Babel, where five peoples speak five languages nobody shares. As the Traveler, you observe, listen and decipher each language from context, filling your notebook glyph by glyph, then act as translator to reunite the Tower. A colorful, hand-drawn puzzle adventure with a lyrical soundtrack, and some of the most satisfying aha moments in puzzles.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Relaxing
98% of 31,675 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 186$19.99Intelligence
A retro-sci-fi themed mystery investigation puzzle game. Search for clues across the solar system, gather intelligence using your cutting-edge investigation tools, and figure out what happened. When you find all 15 ships, you win!
Story-driven, Mysterious, Relaxing
98% of 86 Steam reviews are positiveFreeOutsider
Shape humanity's future in a sci-fi narrative game where choices matter. Experience an extraterrestrial contact while deciphering an overarching mystery of far-reaching consequences. Who is the Outsider?
Story-driven, Mysterious, Relaxing
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$12.997 Days to End with You
You wake up in a strange house and understand not one word of the language around you. Seven days to decode it, one guess at a time, and with every word you assign, the story of you and the person talking to you changes. A short, quiet, word-puzzle visual novel that turns reading itself into the mystery.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Relaxing
87% of 3,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$7.99First Contact
Strange radio bursts have been detected! Embark on an immersive adventure as you analyze radio signals coming from space, decipher hidden messages, symbols, sounds, and translate alien languages. Follow an engaging story with countless dialogues and game-changing choices.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Relaxing
100% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$1.99J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars
J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars is an innovative narrative driven adventure game. The story centers on Rachel Manners, a 35 year old astrobiologist. She is a member of an elite group of scientists, chosen to embark on one of the most critical missions ever conceived on Earth. Now Rachel is alone, orbiting an unknown planet.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Relaxing
85% of 826 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Still There
Every day is the same on the faraway Bento space-lighthouse - until a mysterious radio message breaks through. Evade the past, welcome oblivion, make the perfect Italian coffee. Still There is a psychological adventure game about grief, technical puzzles, wacky AIs and dark humour. How far is far enough?
Story-driven, Mysterious, Relaxing
87% of 774 Steam reviews are positive$14.99no signal
An emotional point-and-click hard sci-fi adventure game about exploring an abandoned space station. Follow messages left by the long-gone staff to learn the outcome of the research team and the secrets they left behind.
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99% of 70 Steam reviews are positive$15The Turing Test
A first-person puzzle game on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. Engineer Ava Turing wakes to find the ground crew missing, and a station AI named Tom waiting. To reach the truth you solve tests that, he insists, only a human can pass. A short, philosophical mystery with a soundtrack worth sitting still for.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Relaxing
87% of 6,255 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99Sethian
Sethian is a sci-fi puzzle game in which you master a fictitious language. The only surviving speaker is an ancient computer. Does it hold the answers behind the disappearance of the Sethianese people?
Story-driven, Mysterious, Relaxing
65% of 160 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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First Contact
Strange radio bursts have been detected! Embark on an immersive adventure as you analyze radio signals coming from space, decipher hidden messages…
100% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
7 Days to End with You
A quiet word-puzzle story where every guess at an unknown language rewrites what happens between you and the person who speaks it.
87% of 3,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$7.99
Epigraph
Epigraph is a short, challenging, language decipherment puzzle game.
85% of 368 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Bay Bell
A science fiction point and click word puzzle video game. Navigate an off-course spaceship, and find a way toward returning home.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Invincible
A hard sci-fi mystery on a dead alien planet. You are Yasna, an astrobiologist hunting for her missing crew across Regis III, armed with analogue…
87% of 10,643 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$8.99
The Temporal Invasion
EXPERIENCE this Story-Driven Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that blends Your Real Life with Science Fiction as it explores the Dark Limits of…
72% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Starship Titanic
From the creative mind of Douglas Adams. The Starship Titanic crashes into your house and takes off with you onboard.
81% of 130 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.99
The Dig®
Three explorers wake something ancient on an asteroid and must puzzle their way home across a strange, beautiful planet.
92% of 1,168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$5.99
Subsurface Circular
Play a robot detective riding an underground train, questioning passengers to solve a string of disappearances.
94% of 1,497 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Voyage: Journey to the Moon
Make fantastic discoveries and dare to go into the deepest depths of the moon to solve puzzles that will allow you to go back to Earth.
84% of 145 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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Stellar Code
Mysterious phenomena from space. A researcher's fatal accident. Cryptic codes engraved on an unknown material.
96% of 462 Steam reviews are positive$24.98
Message From Aliens
In 2058, symbols arrive from space, and the whole game is written in them.
94% of 567 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 466$9.99
Terminal Lucidity
In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers.
96% of 108 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Abandoned Planet
A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art
94% of 203 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Homicipher
Decode an alien language from gestures and pointed fingers, and choose your words carefully: every conversation can lead somewhere very different.
96% of 7,921 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$13.99
Rivage
Solve the station's mechanisms one by one and piece together what happened to the crew.
74% of 554 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$24.99
Epigraph
Epigraph is a short, challenging, language decipherment puzzle game.
85% of 368 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
The Invincible
A hard sci-fi mystery on a dead alien planet. You are Yasna, an astrobiologist hunting for her missing crew across Regis III, armed with analogue…
87% of 10,643 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$8.99
Chants of Sennaar
Climb a colorful tower of five peoples, decode their languages glyph by glyph and translate your way toward reuniting them.
98% of 31,675 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 186$19.99
7 Days to End with You
A quiet word-puzzle story where every guess at an unknown language rewrites what happens between you and the person who speaks it.
87% of 3,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$7.99
Faraday Protocol
Faraday Protocol is a first person puzzle game that will test your wits and intelligence.
83% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
In Other Waters
Guide a stranded scientist through an alien sea as the AI in her diving suit, one signal and scan at a time.
88% of 2,115 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$14.99
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Message From Aliens
In 2058, symbols arrive from space, and the whole game is written in them.
94% of 567 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 466$9.99
Rivage
Solve the station's mechanisms one by one and piece together what happened to the crew.
74% of 554 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$24.99
Intelligence
A retro-sci-fi themed mystery investigation puzzle game. Search for clues across the solar system, gather intelligence using your cutting-edge…
98% of 86 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Terminal Lucidity
In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers.
96% of 108 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Outsider
Shape humanity's future in a sci-fi narrative game where choices matter.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Stellar Code
Mysterious phenomena from space. A researcher's fatal accident. Cryptic codes engraved on an unknown material.
96% of 462 Steam reviews are positive$24.98
no signal
An emotional point-and-click hard sci-fi adventure game about exploring an abandoned space station.
99% of 70 Steam reviews are positive$15
Homicipher
Decode an alien language from gestures and pointed fingers, and choose your words carefully: every conversation can lead somewhere very different.
96% of 7,921 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$13.99
The Abandoned Planet
A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art
94% of 203 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Epigraph
Epigraph is a short, challenging, language decipherment puzzle game.
85% of 368 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
The Invincible
A hard sci-fi mystery on a dead alien planet. You are Yasna, an astrobiologist hunting for her missing crew across Regis III, armed with analogue…
87% of 10,643 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$8.99
Chants of Sennaar
Climb a colorful tower of five peoples, decode their languages glyph by glyph and translate your way toward reuniting them.
98% of 31,675 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 186$19.99