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An alien artifact carries you to worlds mixing Earth fragments with strange terrain, where you explore and solve linked puzzles to get home.
Released 24 Aug 2016
Explore Earth-Alien Worlds
Solve Environmental Puzzles
Connect Distant Machines
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
Developed by Cyan, Inc. · Published by Cyan, Inc.








After an organic artifact transports you far from Earth, you explore an unfamiliar landscape where pieces of human places sit alongside alien environments. As the stranded visitor, you investigate what happened and search for a way home.
Progress comes from observing your surroundings and piecing together clues found in buildings, documents, recordings, symbols, and machines. The game offers little direct guidance, so mapping routes and remembering details can help you work out what to do next.
Many puzzles connect distant locations and systems: an action in one place may affect a machine or route elsewhere, and travel between different worlds is part of solving them. Your discoveries gradually reveal more of the setting and its inhabitants, while your choices have consequences.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its unusual, atmospheric worlds, gradually revealed story, and puzzles that feel connected to the environment. Some find the exploration and reasoning rewarding, especially when they work out how places and systems fit together. Others feel that slow movement, repeated travel, and long loading screens interrupt that experience.

| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 15 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
| DRM / EULA |
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| Metacritic | 76/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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