FIRST CONTACT Roles guide

Would you prefer to listen to a description of the roles and teams at the game? Check out audio role profiles and team explainers as Chris and Zane discuss each section of the game below. Written content is linked after the audio options.

We’ve designed all the roles at First Contact: 2035 to ensure every player will have an awesome day. Regardless of what role you play, whether it’s as the leader of a country, scientist attempting to understand the alien’s biology or a member of press reporting on what is happening, we expect you’ll have a fantastic time.

You can find an outline of the types of roles that will be available to choose from below:

Countries (27 teams mostly made up of four players each)
United Nations (Four players with the team led by the UN Secretary General)
Corporations (Eight corporations vying to become the most successful company in the world and run by a management team of three players each)
Scientists (Five world-renowned scientific institutes with three players each, working on solutions to the planet’s big problems)
Press roles (Six journalists desperately trying to make their deadlines)
Alien roles [REDACTED])