Chants of Sennaar

Wonderfully beautiful game about connection, languages and the proliferation of ideas, skills and knowledge. About the power of cooperation. Most of the game is focused around linguistics, decyphering glyphs to understand the conlang for the areas. The game practically exhudes a microcosm of humanity as a collective and the variety of people we are. As a hobbyist linguist, I found the language construction to be very fun, as they felt very inspired by languages from our world, albeit through A slightly fantastical lense. The visuals are very neat, though I feel some of the more graphically inclined players would not enjoy the bold colors and heavy shape language That in my opinion makes the game pop out very nicely. It makes everything very readable and visually unique and memorably. While the musical side is very lovely, soothing, and especially the sound effects do a wonderful job at feeding the reward center, I don't personally find the OST to be too outstanding. Definitely not bad, it conveys the atmosphere very well, but we'll see if I remember it iin a week. The biggest and most positive surprise, for someone who enjoyes puzzle games and especially cryptographical games, I r…

Absolute treat! Correctly long, fun to decode, unexpectedly wholesome.

Pretty cool game. Visuals and music are great, controls are little junky, the puzzles themselves are quite interesting. I did not expect to see language translation puzzle to be as engaging, though, it is clear that to an extent game was loosing its steam by the end of (but still ended great). Last language was quite meh to decrypt and symbol combination was not fun at all to the point of me changing my opinion that glyphs which consist of different logical parts are underexplored -- maybe they still are, but these lines crossing is absolutely not it. I think first two languages turned out the greatest since they are kinda like drawings and thus are very intuitive -- a lot of my word guesses were immediately correct while the third one did introduce a nice twist. I think only few puzzles were not as clear as I'd like (for example, I don't remember me actually properly deducing where west/east/north are. I think some match glyphs puzzles are also a little bit of trial and error, but maybe there is a good way to fully infer everything, but it probably requires writing all the text samples down which is inconvenient). Maybe a more try hard game can exist where you do have something…

I feel the end is a bit inconsistent, but the gameplay is really good

Interesting puzzles that didn't frustrate you paired with a cool story that doesn't drag on for too long? Great game!

Gioco stupendo, la parte degli enigmi sullo studio linguistico è molto ben pensata e l'ambientazione in ogni zona è intrigante e coinvolgente.