An inventive puzzle game is always something to celebrate and Chants of Sennaar is definitely one of them. It's a game all about languages and learning to communicate. It's not just one language; there's quite a few and they have different grammar rules. At the beginning, I found myself thinking how I was going to start putting words and their meaning together but it ramps it up gradually and has some clever ways of teaching you without just giving you the answer. I really liked how the final language in the game is learned by connecting meanings with all the previous languages making the final segment feel like a very satisfying victory lap building on everything you've done so far. Communication and connecting people are, of course, not original themes in fiction but when you're the one learning the languages and bridging the gap between the different peoples in the game, you do feel them a lot stronger. It's an excellent puzzle game and absolutely worth playing through.

Reviewed on Apr 01, 2024


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