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2026PCSteam Deck playable96 % positive9.75 €

A puzzle game where you decode a message from space by using math and science as a shared language. Deduction and decipherment are the core of the experience.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Sci-fi setting

The closest matches for The Message From Deep Space are Infinifactory, Q.U.B.E. and The Turing Test. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Message From Deep Space special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Infinifactory

93 %Match

2015PCPlayStationSteam Deck playable95 % positive−50 % 17.75 € 8.87 €

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Pure single-player experience

A 3D engineering puzzler from Zachtronics in which you build factory lines for alien captors that assemble products. The appeal lies in tinkering and optimizing your solutions against other players' results.

Q.U.B.E.

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzle game set in a minimalist world of white cubes, where special gloves let you manipulate coloured blocks. The puzzles rely on physics, timing and spatial thinking.

The Turing Test

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter's moon Europa, where you play engineer Ava Turing solving chambers built on energy and physics puzzles. Along the way it reflects on artificial intelligence, morality and what consciousness really means.

ReThink

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzle game where you play an inmate in a 2275 correctional facility, solving about 60 logic puzzles of varying types and difficulty to earn your freedom.

Filament

Pure single-player experience

A calm, fully narrated puzzle adventure where you use a cable-spooling suit to solve wire puzzles aboard a seemingly abandoned spaceship while uncovering its mystery.

Project Temporality

Puzzles and brain teasers

A third-person puzzle platformer where you rewind time and create parallel timelines so your past selves can help you solve each challenge.

TIS-100

Puzzles and brain teasers

A programming puzzler where you write assembly-style code for a broken, fictional computer to fix its nodes. Dry, demanding and all about tinkering and optimizing solutions.

Q.U.B.E. 2

Pure single-player experience

A first-person puzzler where you play archaeologist Amelia, reshaping color-coded blocks and structures in an alien world to progress. Compared to the original it is more colorful, more open and more story-driven.

The Entropy Centre

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzle game where a time-rewinding gun lets you send objects back through their past to solve clever challenges. It wraps this in a sci-fi mystery set in a strange research facility, with a chatty AI companion.

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