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In the game, your mission as sole survivor of your race, is to collect the 64 pieces of the Covenant that will reveal the total knowledge of your race.

The pieces are unfortunately scattered throughout a 256 room cavern filled with 64 different species of critters. These you must stun and capture (once you have found the appropriate stungun) to transport back with you to repopulate your world.

The creature that you play is beautifully animated in no less than 34 steps (per cycle) and adds tremendously to the atmosphere of the game as does the status screen. This displays the pieces of the Covenant that you have found, the critters in your spaceship hold and your energy that is represented by three beating hearts.

The game's creator, Paul Hutchinson, gave me a guided tour of the caverns and made the game look ridiculously easy. However, it will take me some time before I find even a fraction of the Covenant.