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.

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

piltdown man (50324)

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The Press Says

Entertainment Weekly	Apr 21, 1995	B+	83
Freak	Jul, 1995	80 out of 100	80
High Score	Jun, 1995	4 out of 5	80
Datormagazin	Jul, 1995	4 out of 5	80
Power Play	Jun, 1995	71 out of 100	71
PC Player (Germany)	May, 1995	64 out of 100	64
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Jul, 1995		60
PC Games (Germany)	Jun, 1995	51 out of 100	51
Quandary	Jun, 1995		50
Just Adventure	1999	F	0