A Message From the Stars (2024)

Tom Vasel, Chris Yi, and Joey Evans from The Dice Tower review 'A Message From the Stars', providing an overview and their final thoughts on the game.

Ryan and Bethany provide a joint review of 'A Message From the Stars'. Ryan praises it as one of his favorite games, while Bethany acknowledges its quality but finds it personally challenging due to her struggles with word games and inductive reasoning.

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

The reviewer highly recommends "A Message From the Stars" as a fun and unique cooperative word deduction game with strong replayability. Despite some potential for quarterbacking and downtime, its satisfying gameplay makes it a great choice for fans of the genre, especially with 3-4 players.

The reviewer highly recommends A Message from the Stars as a clever and challenging word game for those seeking more complexity than typical party games, praising its unique cipher mechanic and offering both cooperative and competitive play options despite potential analysis paralysis.

The review from The Cardboard Herald details "A Message From the Stars," a cooperative social deduction game where players decipher alien transmissions. It highlights the engaging cipher mechanic, suggesting it's a good lighter deduction game for starting an evening, despite some minor criticisms regarding its ending and replayability for longer sessions.

A Message From The Stars is a deep, challenging cooperative word-deduction game with fantastic dry-erase components. The intricate letter-scoring system, while having a learning curve, sets it apart from simpler party games, leading to a rewarding group experience despite no true solo mode.

The reviewer finds the companion app indispensable for A Message From the Stars, as it helps prevent game-ruining errors common in deduction games, ensuring a more reliable and enjoyable play experience.

The reviewer found 'A Message From the Stars' to be an engaging cooperative game that successfully explores the theme of first contact and communication barriers through its distinct mechanics, offering a fresh take on a familiar theme.

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.

This video offers a teach and review of 'A Message From the Stars', a cooperative deduction board game where players work to decipher alien messages and uncover secret words or letter valuations.

The reviewer highly enjoys 'A Message From the Stars,' praising its unique two-puzzle deduction mechanics as a very good and challenging experience, though it can occasionally feel like a 'one-trick pony' and isn't without minor flaws.

The video from Grant Lyon highlights "A Message From the Stars" as one of the 10 most unique board games of 2024, discussing it within a curated list rather than providing a singular, dedicated review.

This word-based deduction game involves deciphering alien messages and ciphers, offering an interesting blend of math and logic. Reviewers appreciate its clever design but note potential issues with player downtime and 'quarterbacking' in cooperative modes, suggesting alternative player counts for a better experience.

This two-layered puzzle game about decoding alien messages provides engaging problem-solving, but suffers from significant downtime and can encourage alpha-player behavior. While the reviewer finds it adequate, they wouldn't actively seek it out despite enjoying the core puzzle.