异星归途 Alien Homebound

Text adventure on an alien planet

异星归途 Alien Homebound is a PC text-based adventure about an Earth graduate stranded on an alien planet after interstellar pirates destroy his mother ship. An escape pod brings him to the nearest habitable planet, where you follow robot Xiao Mo’s guidance to repair the pod’s temperature control system and rescue another Earthling, Lin Hai.

Messages across timelines

A phone diary fills with entries from the protagonist in parallel timelines. You can leave messages for those other versions of yourself, sharing information even though direct communication isn’t possible. The diary’s clues reveal that the planet can draw people from different timelines to it. Death sends the protagonist back to the initial moment of awakening. Straying from the time coordinate brings a different punishment: a creature called the Void kills him and returns him to that same starting point.