Posted on: July 28, 2025

DrakeNS

Games: 879 Reviews: 1

Minimalist, but in a good way.

A note regarding the softlock mentioned in many reviews: as of this writing, the bug is still present, and stopped my own playthrough at first, but a dev has responded to the GOG forum thread providing a manual fix until the game is officially updated. The game is very minimalist, in both graghics and story, but that is in no way a bad thing. The graphics are clean and bright with a distinct look to each of the regions you explore. The game, by design, primarily uses environmental storytelling, with very little exposition. The majority of your time is spent deciphering each of the multiple languages present in the game, in order to understand its denizens and the tower. The puzzles are logical, with solutions that require context and observation, and never seem to have "moon logic" solutions. Progress is usually steady, and the game clearly lets you know when you're making progress without too much handholding. Long story short, if you like logic puzzles, this may be up your alley. Finished in about 9 1/2 hours with 100% completion and achievements.

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Posted on: August 19, 2025

Eadbert

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Games: 37 Reviews: 1

Short nice indie language puzzler

This game is a lovely 8-10 hour game with puzzles mostly about languages. Positives: The different languages in the game and the ways their grammar work is very intuitive and interesting. The puzzles required some thinking, but it was never too contrived. The graphics are generally good, but simple. Negative: -Needs some way to speed up some (repeated) animations. The simplicity of the graphics limits how interesting areas look when you walk through them more than once. -Needs a map. Every screen is unique, but getting lost can still happen easily. If you want to backtrack, you'll probably run around a lot in the (as mentioned previously) too simplistic areas. -Most puzzles where information from a different screen is needed, there are notes. This will not happen every time and you might have to write things down / screenshot / look up a guide. -The game includes more than one language and you'll focus on one language for about 2 hours at a time with few reuses. Some of these reuses need you to remember the grammar/etc. of that concrete language. As i have played this game over more than a singular session (as is probably standard in a 8-10 hour game), this was a bit frustrating, as the notes rarely include sentences. TL;DR: This game is good, but could have some QoL changes, probably slightly shortening the game.

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Posted on: July 28, 2025

drmick

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Games: 187 Reviews: 1

Ciritical bug means wasted hours of play

Going great until it just goes to a black screen when leaving one area - music still plays, but the mouse pointer stays disabled and keys are unresponsibe. There's no way to roll back the save game to an earlier point, so that's the end of that.

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Posted on: July 29, 2025

Zheniel

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Games: 669 Reviews: 2

Unique puzzle game with a beautful story

Story: Discover the mysteries of a tower with different cultures Game mechanics: Casual puzzle game which you play just with your mouse. Difficulty: Every puzzle is fair and you can solve them with hints from the evironment Design: Each culture is depicted differently and and each language works differently

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Posted on: August 10, 2025

UlrictehUnready

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Games: 725 Reviews: 1

Intriguing for What It is

I'm fascinated by linguistics, and the process by which people acquire language, so this is right up my alley. I really appreciate how the developers anticipated players' actions (or inaction...or lack of attentiveness) and provided a means to replay NPC actions and dialogue in case they missed it the first time around. There is also a fair amount of foreshadowing for some of the more obscure puzles (which, in most cases, you won't even realize until after you've encountered the puzzle, but still). My four gripes with the game are: 1) a lot of thepuzzles can be solved by simply rotating each element systematically until you get the right combination (think of the Eagle/Snake/Whale steles in Skyrim)...although, in some cases, that would require 64 (or 512, in one case) combinations to try; 2) some of the drawings that go with the symbol you're trying to decipher are really off (for example, SPOILER: I already knew what the symbol for "pot" was, and there was a slot in the translation book that showed hands on a pot...but it would not accept the symbol for "pot". Turns out, they wanted you to put the symbol for "make" there, as it was a drawing showing someone MAKING a pot; the drawing really should not have shown the entire pot, and better yet, just shown hands with motion arrows); 3) the geographical layout is really hard to nail down; I've played this three hours, and—except for a courtyard with a stele having symbols on it that tell you where you'll go if you head east, west, or north (and yes, you have to translate the symbols, but that's the cool part)—I really cannot get a grasp of how the different locations are connected; and finally, 4) You can't choose to save the game whenever you want; you either have to trigger an auto save, or use the one save kiosk in the whole game (which doesn't even tell you it saves the game!). Still, overall, a good experience I'd recommend if you like feeling like a master translator!

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