First Contact Protocol

About

First Contact Protocol is a choice-driven puzzle adventure set aboard a crippled spaceship. Players navigate tight corridors and malfunctioning systems while balancing survival tasks with moral dilemmas. Each decision impacts the crew’s fate as conflicts arise from limited resources and clashing priorities. The game uses static visuals and text to tell its story, relying on branching paths to create varied outcomes. Puzzle solving often involves rerouting power, sealing breaches, or negotiating fragile alliances. The game’s strength lies in its layered decision-making. A single action can trigger cascading consequences, altering later scenarios in subtle or drastic ways. Community playthroughs reveal over 20 distinct endings, with some requiring precise timing of choices. Though limited by Game Boy Color hardware, the cutscenes use bold animation to maintain tension. Players spending 8-10 hours typically see most outcomes, though full completionists may take longer to map all possibilities.

Storyline

A deep-space collision. A spreading contamination. A crew with conflicting goals. As you explore the ship and try to repair it, every choice you make matters. Some decisions combine in unexpected ways, leading to different outcomes.