What Happened to the Crew?

An earlier work from the author of The Red Pearls of Borneo. Visually and mechanically, it feels like a prototype: lacking any of the beautiful UI elements of the later game, or any graphics or sound at all (it's pure command-line, just like Type Help). Initial impressions make it easy to dismiss as a serviceable rip-off ("it's Type Help in Space!") with a very formulaic sci-fi horror story, but the point you reach the natural conclusion turns out to be barely the half-way mark! Suddenly, the story shifts up a gear, and everything gets much more interesting as it gets re-contextualised with new information. Like Blue Prince, the first half of the game turns out to be the tutorial for the second as the deductions get much trickier and the player begins to be tested in all-new ways.