Trial 01
Alien ship
The corridors follow no known logic.
Adaptation
The nine trials
What's waiting for you
before the boss.
Trial 02
Alien language
Nine symbols, a grammar to work out as you play.
Logic
Trial 03
Unknown technology
The controls don't do what they say.
Adaptation
Trial 04
Hostile creatures
They react to movement, not to sound.
Composure
Trial 05
Variable gravity
Every room has its own. None is signposted.
Adaptation
Trial 06
Biological riddles
An organism to rebuild from six fragments.
Logic
Trial 07
Living portals
They open and close on their own rhythm.
Timing
Trial 08
Alien base
A vast map, shown for three seconds at the start.
Memory
Trial 09
Invasion
The number of enemies doubles every ten seconds.
Reflexes
The boss
The Alien Emperor
It isn't merely harder. It asks for everything the nine trials have just taught you, all at once.
Phase 01It attacks on a logic you have to observe first.
Phase 02It changes its logic the moment you've worked it out.
Phase 03It uses the mechanics of the eight previous trials.
What Alien measures
Every universe tests
part of you.
Alien puts adaptation front and centre. What you score here feeds your skill profile, and that profile follows you through the other nineteen universes.
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