A 3D survival game where you and a partner start on a desert island in the middle of an endless sea. Unlike similar survival games such as Rust or Don't Starve Together, the focus is off player versus player and combat with monsters. Instead, the challenge of the game comes from simply attempting to survive. Crafting will not be straightforward menu-based clicking; do not expect to be able to make a torch from grass and a stick like in other games, oh no. It will be as difficult as you trying to survive on a desert island would be in real life; you have no idea how to do anything, and your attempts at making shelter or catching fish are clumsy at best. First you'd need fire, then suitable materials to make the torch - a stout stick and some sort of fuel, not too dry, not too moist, so as to catch the flames well. Then you need to carry the fire to the torch or vice versa. With Surgeon Simulator-like grabbing, this will not be easy. Assuming you managed all that, well done! You have a torch that will keep you slightly warm and won't go out unless it runs out of fuel, is held in too strong wind, or is dropped in the sand.

In order to make this ordeal easier, your partner will be there to assist you. But here comes the catch of Mixed Messages: any attempts at communication will be slightly garbled. Text will be partially obscured by strange symbols, and microphones will be filtered. You will have to be interpretive when trying to decipher what your partner needs your help with, and you will need to construct some sort of shelter before night falls. It gets very cold here during the nighttime. Maybe in the morning you will have time to gather water that's safe to drink.

Good luck surviving...

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