The Daedalus Encounter

Description

The interstellar war is over, leaving you, a casualty, as a disembodied brain inside a life support system. Your buddies rescue you from the lab so that you can go exploring - scavenging the galaxy for wreckage and artifacts left over from the war. In due course you stumble literally into an alien craft. With your own craft disabled, and the alien ship on a collision course, you must explore it to find out what has gone wrong and to make a course correction.

Gameplay consists of conversations with your colleagues (displayed as live action video), animated exploration sequences, as well as puzzle-solving that mostly involves figuring out how to operate alien mechanisms. There is also a maze sequence and sporadic action-based tasks. There is no inventory to speak of, because, being a brain in a box. you have no pockets.

All the action takes place in an in-game window that is your view of the world. It takes up only a small part of the screen and the rest of the screen is taken up with a kind of fleshy 'inside of your head' background that is there to remind you that you are inside a machine. Three difficulty settings, in-game instruction and assistance, as well as a few extras (such as high-resolution pictures) are included.

Part of the Following Groups

• Protagonist: Female
• Visual technique / style: Live-action cutscenes

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User Reviews

You start by dying, almost, and end up saving the day

Windows 3.x

piltdown man (50665)

The Press Says

Joystick (French)	Windows 3.x	Jun, 1995	87 out of 100	87
Entertainment Weekly	Windows 3.x	Apr 21, 1995	B+	83
Datormagazin	Windows 3.x	Jul, 1995	4 out of 5	80
Freak	Windows 3.x	Jul, 1995	80 out of 100	80
Video Games & Computer Entertainment	3DO	Nov, 1995	8 out of 10	80
Power Play	Windows 3.x	Jun, 1995	71 out of 100	71
PC Player (Germany)	Windows 3.x	May, 1995	64 out of 100	64
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Windows 3.x	Jul, 1995		60
PC Games (Germany)	Windows 3.x	Jun, 1995	51 out of 100	51
The Video Game Critic	3DO	Mar 16, 2005	C-	42

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Trivia

Gag

In the beginning of the game when exploring the ship, you come across a dead alien. On their back is a post-it note saying "Kick Me".

Awards

• PC Player (Germany)
  • Issue 01/1996 - CD-ROM Babe of the Year 1995 (for actress Tia Carrere)

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