Numerous typos that should be corrected for a post-jam build of such a text-heavy game make $4 outrageous, which are the reason for my rating. I will revise this review if these matters are addressed, but any paid product should be as professional as possible, not rife with typos like:

• "One message receieved"
• "will be seeded wtih"
• "Temperatures near Earth normal"
• "Scan the atmopshere"
• "launch" (instead of "lunch," in the sanity questionnaire)
• I had found twice as many more, but I lost my text due to itch.io's absurd popup-closing if you click outside the review box...

Quality of life issues:

• The map doesn't change on past points of interest; you have to keep manually mousing over to check whether "VISITED: True"
• The Escape key does nothing (to change the game volume, UI size if text is too small, etc.)
• WASD/arrow keys to pan around the map would be helpful
• Having an interactive highlight over exactly which square the mouse is over before clicking would be helpful

Amazing concept but shaky execution, so far, though it doesn't have to stay this way.