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Artless Games · 2026 · Windows

Steam: 93 % positive of 559 reviews, as of Nov 12

Explore an alien logographic writing system with over 1,000 glyphs, from their number system to their culture and thought.

24 games that play like Message From Aliens and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Message from Deep Space, Sethian and Epigraph.

Player tags

  • Aliens
  • Text-Based
  • Sci-fi
  • Lore-Rich
  • Education
  • Minimalist
  • Singleplayer
  • Space
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Message From Aliens on Steam: reviews over time

+378 Steam reviews in the 8 days to Nov 12, about 47 a day.

93 % positive now, 96 % a week earlier.

Steam’s store count, read from Steam’s list of games. A chart follows once 5 counts over 14 days are in.

Best matches

Plays and looks like Message From Aliens

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Message From Aliens

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Heaven's Vault84 % positive of 1,983Shared: Sci-fi · Space · Puzzle
  2. Machinika: Atlas76 % positive of 593Shared: Aliens · Sci-fi · Space
  3. Word Game93 % positive of 5,961Shared: Minimalist · Puzzle · Strategy
  4. LOK Digital99 % positive of 522Shared: Minimalist · Puzzle · Word Game
  5. FTL: Faster Than Light93 % positive of 63,096Shared: Sci-fi · Space · Simulation
  6. Word Game: Episode 097 % positive of 4,548Shared: Minimalist · Puzzle · Strategy
  7. The Talos Principle94 % positive of 29,399Shared: Sci-fi · Puzzle · Simulation
  8. The Artifact65 % positive of 135Shared: Space · Puzzle · Indie
  9. OPUS: The Day We Found Earth86 % positive of 1,429Shared: Sci-fi · Space · Puzzle
  10. Earthlingo90 % positive of 242Shared: Education · Casual
  11. I Was a Teenage Exocolonist95 % positive of 4,516Shared: Sci-fi · Simulation · Card Game
  12. Lingo93 % positive of 805Shared: Minimalist · Puzzle · Word Game

On the map

Where Message From Aliens sits on the map

Games that play alike sit close together on our game map. The faint dots are other games nearby.

  1. The Message from Deep Space
  2. Sethian
  3. Epigraph
  4. Chants of Sennaar
  5. Machinika: Museum
  6. Signal Simulator
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By look

Looks like Message From Aliens

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Sethian65 % positive of 160
  2. WAVESHAPER88 % positive of 2,275
  3. Word Game: Episode 097 % positive of 4,548
  4. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead85 % positive of 542
  5. LYNE95 % positive of 7,189
  6. GAUGE87 % positive of 87
  7. BYTEPATH92 % positive of 305
  8. Coloring Pixels95 % positive of 8,746
  9. Word Game93 % positive of 5,961
  10. Space Between Worlds93 % positive of 481
  11. The Powder Toy97 % positive of 3,128
  12. 14093 % positive of 2,059

At a glance

What games like Message From Aliens have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Message From Aliens: Sci-fi (14 of 24), Puzzle (13) and Space (9).
  • They came out between 2008 and 2026, none of them after Message From Aliens (2026).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Chants of Sennaar (98 % positive of 31,675).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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