Chants of Sennaar

Solving puzzles is hard when you cant read or understand anything so you gotta figure out languages from context clues and such. Theres different languages with like ~30 words each or so. The game lets you fill in whatever you want as soon as you get a new word and as long as its not solved (with a sorta Obra Dinn "get 3 right" method) everything will talk back in your own jumbled word fragments. Can be pretty funny and somewhat amazing when youre kinda off but it still somewhat works. Visually striking, good music Puzzles overall are good and make sense, theres some math but its bearable. Got stuck once because it wasnt entirely clear something could be interacted with in a certain way, coulda used an extra button prompt but thats about it.

真是一款非常好的解谜游戏，虽说也是靠着一点点攻略过来的，但解起来很有意思和成就感，美术音乐方面都出色，还有非常喜欢这个真结局好感动啊

Incredibly good. An interesting story wrapped in a beautiful puzzle-adventure about language. It was fun and is highly recommended.

모든 층이 처음 도착 시 길이 어렵게 느껴지긴 함 하지만 큰 문제는 아님 필연적으로 쏘다니고 헤매기 때문에 극심한 길치가 아니면 자연스럽게 외워짐 하다 보면 자연스럽게 풀리는 구조지만 모든 퍼즐이 매끄럽게 진행되진 않음 일부 구간은 풀고 나서도 이게 맞나 싶음 전체적으로 크게 모난 곳 없이 잘 빠진 퍼즐 게임 저니, 인사이드, 모뉴먼츠 벨리 등 몽환적인 느낌 풍기는 퍼즐 게임을 재밌게 즐긴 경험이 있다면 높은 확률로 해당 게임도 취향에 맞을 것

A lovely puzzler. One of the best games I played this year. I appreciated the lack of permanently closed options; you can always go back to get the puzzles you missed in order to advance the story.

Absolutely loved this game. I don't play many puzzle games, but the combination here of exploration, puzzles, language puzzles in particular and the beautiful art just did it for me. Must play if you like puzzle games or if, like me, you did not know there were language puzzle games out there.

Nice Point & Click. Aside from one achievement (Fashion Victim), everything else is reachable by just playing the game and going back to puzzles you couldn't complete before. Not too long but that's a plus, it doesn't overstay its welcome. Worth getting if you like such games, try the demo first tho.

从各族人民彼此仇恨隔阂到民族大团结，从支离破碎的语言系统到巴别塔的重建，主角是末世的商博良，玩家是历史的见证者。一路走来，非常震撼。

Замечательная игра и хорошая головоломка, которая полностью завязана на лингвистике. Графика здесь простая, но выделяется. Затупы в этой игре однозначно будут (особенно с языком бардов), но долго не задержитесь. Также интересно сделано то, что построение предложений в каждом языке по своему выделяется. Мне лично игра понравилась, всем советую. 8,5/10

This is one of the most engaging cipher games and generally puzzle games I've ever played. The puzzles and the story have a nice flow to them, I never felt hard stuck and could always find a solution to a problem by exploring a bit more. The validation system in place for the glyphs is great, too! It prevents you from getting mired in mistakes you've made early in the game later on. When you've validated each glyph in a sentence, the sentence can be displayed in English, which is not only convenient but also makes it a bit more immersive, and it gives the people's speech some much appreciated tone. The languages are also surprisingly in depth! If you pay attention to detail, you can find patterns and make sense of unknown glyphs a bit easier, and it feels quite rewarding. It's not something I usually see in these games but it's a lovely touch! It doesn't feel too linear, either. I never had the sense that I was doing things out of order. Whenever I ran into something I didn't know what to do with or couldn't translate, it was easy to just come back later, and I never had to run back large stretches in order to retrieve something I missed. It's a very smooth and comfortable experience. As for critiques; Like many others it seems, I did not enjoy the stealth sections. As far as stealth gameplay goes it wasn't bad at all, I actually quite like it for what it is, but when opening Chants of Sennaar I feel like puzzling and unfolding the story, I don't feel like stealthing around. At least there are generous checkpoints so it's generally not too frustrating of an experience, and, for what it's worth, the stealth sections are largely front loaded. Personally I also would have liked to have a map on demand. I am rather directionally challenged and had the most success navigating the area that had maps on display on the wall. I spent a lot of time running around in the wrong direction trying to find something in particular. If you're better with directions than I am, however, this might not be an issue for you. All in all though I cannot recommend this game enough.