The Encounter

The Encounter is a horror game that combines Chinese horror with extraterrestrial beings. You interact with alien entities, carry out their tasks and uncover how your character is connected to the story. To progress, you may need to use a camera to capture invisible substances and decode them at designated spots, charge energy blocks with an energy-absorbing gun, or collect items and place them in specific locations.

Jake’s story

Jake is caring for his pregnant wife, Qing, when a portal opens in their home. He enters it, and extraterrestrial beings put him through a consciousness transfer procedure. Afterward, he feels unwell and visits a hospital, where CT scans show signs of “evolution,” including vertical pupils. Jake is mostly unaware of these changes, but experiences headaches, a growing sensation at the back of his neck and dreams that are actually his own experiences.

As Qing goes into labor, Jake buys a TV and wins a lottery ticket. The story presents the ticket as a subconscious message from another extraterrestrial trying to enter Qing’s body, and suggests that their child is an alien’s offspring. Jake’s hospital visits and discomfort reflect the gradual transfer and evolution taking place.

Aliens and the Spiritual Web

The story draws on a legend inspired by the Roswell incident. A nurse caring for an extraterrestrial being communicates with it and learns that the aliens come from a shared territory, while Earth is a prison where 3,000 people were exiled. Over time, these people acquired human genetics, though half still carry alien attributes without knowing it. The universe is at war, and Earth is protected by the “Spiritual Web,” where the dead are trapped in a cycle, unable to remember past lives or escape.

The extraterrestrials see Earth as a beautiful last safe haven amid turmoil elsewhere in the universe. Jake eventually accepts his evolution and destroys physical evidence of his and Qing’s “previous lives.” The story reveals that the aliens have transferred and evolved through genetic material, inhabiting human bodies as shells, while Jake and Qing’s souls go to the Spiritual Web to await reincarnation.

The journalist’s fate

Jake deals with his younger brother to eliminate a witness and keeps his ashes. The journalist’s fate is left unresolved, but the ending reveals that he has a pregnant wife, echoing Jake’s situation. Jake and Qing set out to find the journalist’s family, leaving open the possibility of murder to remove witnesses, another extraterrestrial transfer, or a twist in the story.