# Answering the Dark — First contact , done right.

> First contact , done right. (iPhone/iPad app by Christopher Cook.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/answering-the-dark/id6789731959 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Christopher Cook](https://appshunter.io/developer/1838226379)
- Category: Games, Adventure
- Price: Free (on sale, was $2.99)
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 14.0 · 12 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-03
- Data updated: 2026-08-26
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/answering-the-dark/id6789731959/reviews.md

## What is Answering the Dark?

Four billion kilometers from home, your survey vessel AURORA hears a signal — clean, patterned, and coming from a place the charts say is empty. It isn't noise. It isn't a weapon. Something out there has been waiting a very long time, and it just noticed us.

You are Deepwatch, humanity's deep-space mission control. Across three acts you'll:

• DECODE the signal — pull meaning out of static, one prime number at a time.
• COORDINATE under pressure — keep your ship and crew safe when contact gets dangerous.
• DEDUCE the truth — and decide, word by word, what humanity says back.

Play solo as Flight Director with a full crew of characters at the consoles — or link up with friends by share-code and each take a station. You only win by talking to each other.

A story-rich, hopeful adventure about patience, listening, and what it means to answer someone in the dark. No violence. No gore. No profanity. Just the vastness — and a friend in it, if you're brave enough to say hello.

Five endings. One question from the dark: Will you remember us?


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0.3 — 2026-08-03

No release notes.

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All apps by Christopher Cook: https://appshunter.io/developer/1838226379

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