OK, here's your hackneyed "like dark souls" comparison: it's Myst meets Obra Dinn meets Heaven's Vault. A point-and-click adventure puzzle game about using contextual inference to decipher various languages. And the game delivers on that premise fantastically, the satisfaction as your understanding of a word is confirmed by using it to solve a puzzle is unparalleled.

If I had one complaint, the stealth sections feel kind of unnecessary and out of place, but they're also fairly short, with quick and forgiving respawns, so it's kind of whatever. Some of the late game sequences also felt slightly unsatisfying, once you no longer really have anything new to grasp about the languages, but that's kind of inevitable, discovery can't last forever.

Reviewed on Sep 23, 2023


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