A Message From the Stars (2024)

The reviewers unanimously highly recommend 'A Message From the Stars', praising it as a brain-burning and creative puzzle game that they thoroughly enjoyed and consider unique in the market.

The reviewers praise "A Message From The Stars" as a great and fantastic game that offers a unique and engaging experience through its communication and deduction mechanics, despite one reviewer personally struggling with word games.

The reviewer highly recommends 'A Message From The Stars', calling it one of their new favorite cooperative word games.

A Message From the Stars is a weird, different, and potentially brain-breaking cooperative game with layers of deduction, word association, and math where players must interpret an alien's letter communications.

“Co-op Board Games offers a very strong recommendation for 'A Message From the Stars,' praising it as a unique and enjoyable cooperative word and math deduction game, despite some potential for 'quarterbacking' and downtime for certain player groups. The game's unique cipher and deduction mechanics make it a blast once understood, offering satisfying teamwork and high replayability.”

The reviewer included 'A Message From the Stars' in their monthly 'Games Radar' roundup, indicating it was one of the games that significantly captured their interest and was worth highlighting to their audience.

“Overall, I enjoy A Message from the Stars! It’s a game that I wish had a bit more complexity to it, but that’s because the core play loop is really what I’m looking for in a game.”

The reviewer presents 'A Message From the Stars' as a highly engaging and challenging deduction game that successfully combines wordplay, mathematical elements, and logical puzzles, making it a strong recommendation for players who enjoy deep, contemplative cooperative experiences.

“I give A Message From The Stars a very strong recommendation … but only for certain groups. That cross-section of people who like words, maths, and deduction seems like a small set.”

“Overall I think A Message From the Stars is a really clever and challenging word game for players who enjoy some of the other word games I’ve mentioned in the review but want a bit more to wrap their heads around and with two different roles to play as and a huge combination of possible words to try and play with this game will keep you occupied on those long space voyages to come.”

The reviewer highly praises "A Message From the Stars" as a great cooperative social deduction game, particularly highlighting its fun and engaging cipher mechanic. While it may not sustain an entire night of gaming or offer a truly climactic ending, it serves as an excellent lighter deduction experience to kick off a game night.

“If you like deduction games with a good dose of interaction, cooperation, and mental gymnastics, then A Message from the Stars for you. It’s a solid design, it’s challenging, deep, and multidimensional without taking itself too seriously.”