Your friend is trapped inside an alien exclusion zone.
You pick up their signal. You go in.
Then something else starts talking on the radio.
You work for a private military contractor tasked with securing the perimeter around Sector 7 — a classified alien containment zone the public doesn't know exists. Your job is routine. Until it isn't.
A distress call breaks through the static. It's your friend — a fellow operative who was sent inside the zone three days ago and never came back. They need you. They sound scared. They sound real.
You go in. The radio never goes quiet.
Every transmission you receive must be analyzed in real time. Tone, cadence, word choice — the entity learns your friend's patterns. So must you. One wrong call can cost everything.
Fight through a hostile alien environment with degraded equipment and limited visibility. The zone distorts GPS, sensors, and your own perception. Survive long enough to find the truth.
Follow the radio voice — or ignore it. Trust or don't trust. Each decision shapes the mission, your friend's fate, and what the entity learns about how to manipulate you next time.
The unknown entity observing your behavior adapts its mimicry strategy. No two playthroughs sound alike. It studies what you respond to — and exploits it.
The radio is your lifeline and your enemy. Engineered with layered audio cues and deliberate dissonance — wear headphones. The difference between a rescue and a trap is in the sound.
Your friend's survival depends on how well you listened — and how well you doubted. Several endings branch from the choices you made, the signals you trusted, and those you didn't.
"It's me. I'm at the eastern relay station. I've been hiding for two days. Just come get me — don't engage anything you see."
"It's me. I'm at the eastern relay station. I've been hiding for two days. Come alone. Don't tell anyone where you're going."
"Why aren't you moving? Are you still there? Please hurry."
Something inside the exclusion zone has learned to mimic your friend's voice. Not just the sound — the vocabulary, the emotional register, the private jokes only the two of you would know.
You cannot verify a transmission by how it sounds. You'll need to pay attention to what's said, what's not said, and what changes each time the radio crackles back to life.
The wrong decision doesn't announce itself as a mistake. You won't know until it's too late.