Chants of Sennaar

Worth the purchase, it is a rare gem these days.

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.

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.

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.

Je n'ai pu faire que les trois premiers étages et c'est pour l'instant une excellente découverte! Malheureusement, je suis softlock à la fin (je suppose?) du troisième étage, aucune possibilité d'avancer, je suis obligé d'alt-F4... En espérant un patch prochainement pour pouvoir continuer de monter !