Signal From The Stars chases real mysteries from a rainy eighties living room
A hand-placed pixel art adventure with a nine-verb grid, three heroes to swap between and real archaeological mysteries to chase.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The most telling screenshot of Signal From The Stars is not a jungle temple or a pyramid. It is a living room in the eighties, with rain down the patio doors, a brown wood-effect cabinet round a chunky television, a hexagon rug in three shades of orange and a glass coffee table with a newspaper on it. A dark-haired man in a white shirt stands by the cabinet and a speech bubble above him reads "I'm glad you're here". It is a very ordinary place to start a hunt for the unexplained, and I suspect that is the point. Nine verbs and a sleeping tiger Anyone who grew up on point-and-click adventure...