The Outpost Nine

The Outpost Nine is a visual novel and point-and-click hybrid about the small skeleton crew of The Outpost, a lonely mining facility on the small moon Cobalt Paradise. In Episode 1, the crew prepares the facility for the arrival of the rest of the mining crew when they accept a distress call from a nearby freighter.

The distress call

A search of the freighter turns up two pilots: one horribly disfigured but alive, and the remains of the other. The pilot brought back to The Outpost is host to a bizarre, frightened parasite that puts the crew in intense danger.

Explore the facility

The game moves between visual-novel cutscenes and top-down point-and-click gameplay. You choose actions from a menu and solve puzzles as you make your way around the facility.

Avoid the pilot

As you explore, you must avoid the pilot. Listen to the beeping of your motion scanner to track when the pilot is getting closer, then find somewhere to hide.