A Message from the Stars

By What's Eric Playing? on September 23, 2024

Base price: $40.
2+ players.
Play time: ~45 minutes.
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Logged plays: 3

Full disclosure: A review copy of A Message from the Stars was provided by Allplay. Some of the components pictured are Deluxe components; the standard game does not come with six dice and a stand for the cards, for instance.

I probably could have gotten more done this week but the allure of sleeping until 3PM over the weekend was too great. Gotta say, though, if you've never done it, try it. You'll feel like garbage until the grogginess wears off. And maybe it will wear off for you! In the meantime, I've just been checking out new and old games. Got some very exciting stuff coming down the pipe for y'all, and a Zelda game that's going to completely consume my next weekend. Not reviewing that (video game reviewing; not happening), but I will happily talk about it here in a few weeks. Gotta love an intro paragraph for a brief snapshot of my life. Anyways, let's dive into the game itself.

In A Message from the Stars, it's aliens! You've always expected this day would come, and you're not sure if it's going to be an Arrival thing or a Close Encounters thing or an Aliens thing or a Star Trek thing or a War of the Worlds thing or that one movie where they kiss the aliens, so you're opting to be prepared. How will you prepare? Communication! The problem is, their message is encoded in a way you didn't expect, so you're not quite sure what they want. Maybe you can crack it, but it'll take a couple tries! Will you be able to cross the bounds of interspecies conversation?