About the Game
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 poetry and alien jokes.
4. In-game alien-alien dictionary.
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. Some scientific concepts are involved, such as gravity and water electrolysis.
This game is not recommended for players under 15 years old.
7. Mini-games (in alien language)
Screenshots
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Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Removed several unnecessary glyphs with unsatisfactory design
Some definitions in dictionary revised
Save file now moved to %USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalLowArtless GamesMessageFromAliensYour STEAM UID
(The game still load from old path if new path is empty)
Multiple steam accounts in same computer no longer share save slots.
Undo button and a few other qol features in notepad.
Two of the aliens in epilogue are renamed. writer and physics scientist
No longer load answers that do not match provided options (this is usually because the question has been modified)
One more question in chapter 6.
Other typo fix and word type fix.
Fixed a few electricity's unit conversion to match alien's definition.
The number of digits displayed for a constant has been increased so that players using this data for final question in chapter 3 no longer encounter precision issues.
Bookmark now correctly jumps to message with number in its title. (Previously the number is incorrectly parsed)
Fixed some incorrectly shown deleted glyphs.
Some additional information has been included in a few glyphs' dictionary.
If you are using a steam client in Japanese, kanji should override its matching Chinese character.
Other typo fixes.
Reduced unnecessary screen redraws
Demo dictionary complete rate now only counts accessible words in demo.
Full game (playtest build): Third message in epilogue rewritten.
Fixed a bug that prevented the dictionary from turning page.
Fixed a bug that incorrectly highlighting dictionary categories with unrecognized words containing the marked word.
Fixed a bug where automatically generated annotations weren't hidden when a player clicked an input field. At least I think I fixed it. But I am not really sure becuase I already thought I fixed it. Please tell me if this still occurs.
This is an internal test update.
(Sorry, it is impossible to publish a tester-only patch note)
Lots of typo fix and wording improvement.
A qol feature in 5th small game.
Player now bookmark specific page instead of entire article.
I will update the demo on Oct 18th.
This update will unlock a restricted dictionary in the game demo. Stay tuned!
Today's update is only for full game's playtesting.
Chapter 4 reworked. Players will begin learning about aliens one chapter earlier.
Old chapter 4 moved to bonus chapter.
Several adjustments to make the alien's world more scientific / sci-fi.
A new feature for tracking completion rate.
Sorry, there is no demo update today.
I am planning to add more features to the demo during steam next fest (oct 19).
Fixed a few typos
Based on information provided by a player, I modified some color scheme to better match the aliens' visual perception
Option menu is now visible at the very start
The reason for hiding the options is, a playtester got stuck at options before solving their first puzzle for 1 hour. But now I think this might be a rare case. Lack of settings may cause more people to be confused.
Improved color scheme (at least in my view)
I renamed the themes based on front color instead of back color (which means current black and dark theme are swapped)
Windowed mode now provides multiple resolution options.
Redesigned a few glyphs
Chapter 1's most confusing article is broken down into several parts
Demo:
Fixed a bug causing a glyph and its radicials mismatch.
A few glyphs reworked.
Replaced chapter 1 quiz 11.
Some new text at somewhere.
Full game:
Renamed an alien
Fixed a typo in last message of chapter 1
Fixed a bug causing player pagedown to an empty page
More setting options (I am not telling you what is new)
A new page in the main menu (I forgot to add it to demo)
Disable rich text
Highlight button no longer highlight content you didn't unlock
Current Release
Build 26480693
Uploaded Nov 06, 2026
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How to Install
MessageFromAliens.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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