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Played Chants of Sennaar at the weekend and I think it's one of my favourite games of the year so far. Gameplay is like Duolingo meets Obra Dinn where you have to learn whole-ass languages from context clues to progress through a Tower of Babel story. When things click into place, you feel like a certified brain-genius. Ace stuff! store.steampowered.com/app/193…

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Legend says that one day, a traveler will reunite the Peoples of the Tower who are unable to communicate with each other. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the myth of Babel.
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xanna
xanna
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ooh, this sounds like my sort of thing. There's a text-based game called the Gostak which has what sounds like a similar premise, and is fantastic
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The Gostak

"Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds. Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole delcot, let the drokes uncren them.
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John Kelly
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@xanna “This is the delcot of tondam, where gitches frike and duscats glake. Across from a tophthed curple, a gomway deaves to kiloff and kirf, gombing a samilen to its hoff.” - big flashbacks to reading Joyce in college right there.

srsly though, this looks amazing, thanks for the recommendation!

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Alexandra Lanes
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@xanna Well this is normal 🤪
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Alexandra Lanes
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@WOMUMP @xanna This is a very strange experience. I think I’ve got (some) movement sorted. And I think that some phrasal verbs use different prepositions to their presumed equivalents in English.
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