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(I beat it) A game with a very difficult and interesting puzzle but that simply is not fun to solve. I spent what I assume is the expected amount of time fumbling around and ultimately doing a large amount of assuming and guessing. I found out later through guides that my answers were only about 70% correct. The overarching problem is that there is no way to tell if you are getting any closer. The ending puzzle is answering 4 questions, but the only indication you get that any are right is when ALL are right and you actually finish the game. By the end I was just completely exhausted

A very unique game for a particular sort of person. Very unique in how little information you're given to work from, and having no extra help or any indicators when you're on the right track. This makes it frustrating but extremely rewarding to solve. All of the information you need *is* there and does follow logic, but unlike most logic puzzles, there are usually a few options that make equal sense so trial and error is required. In the end, there was only one part of one final solution I really had a complaint about. TLDR: great uniquely pull-your-hair-out puzzle experience for the price

Loving it. You will have to crack several layers of code: Deducing what each sign means and then you have to find out what the words mean in your language. And then you have to apply the knowledge to the cryptic box. I can't talk about what comes after that, because I haven't yet solved it. Just like other cryptic Matthew Brown games, this game is hard and offers you no help. You will have to rely on trial and error in some cases, it will give you no hints at all if you are on the right track or completely off the mark. But in a way that is similar to how in the real world old inscriptions or cyphers would be translated or solved. It is definitely not for everybody, but it doesn't have to be. For some it is tedious, to others it is immersive. Linguistic interest and experience helps. I don't use guides and if you substract of my "time played" the time where I had to pause the game to get my baby back to sleep or fell asleep myself, then it took me about 5 sleep deprived hours to get to 85% of cracked code. I estimate at least 2 more hours until I can enter the code. That is 7 hours of mad fun and satisfaction for about 3€. This is a good deal. To me the game is an experience t…

it's neat!

I REALLY enjoyed figuring out what symbols translated to what sounds AND the math puzzle, but figuring out the words and the speech made no sense at all. I like puzzle games, but this one was far too cryptic for me and involved too much guessing (or hard to connect clues) for my taste.

A very crunchy language puzzler.