The endgame

The Visitors

Every game sends the same signal. Five very different things can answer it.

Which one comes is decided when the signal is heard, and it is drawn rather than chosen: the kind of world you built shifts the odds without ever fixing them. The arrival screen tells you who has come. Until then, every one of them is possible.

The RefugeesA ship that is not coming to conquer anybody.The OwnersAn old, patient power with a claim on this world.The ScavengersThey come for what you left in the ground.The EvaluatorsNot a welcome. An assessment.The UltimatumThe only visitor that offers you a choice.

Some of what happens after landfall is deliberately left off these pages. Play it.