Mastering a videogame is not unlike becoming proficient in a new language – particularly for those less versed in the abstruse vocabulary of the medium. As such, and given the rise of interactive language learning via the likes of Duolingo, it’s surprising more developers haven’t attempted to gamify the process. Rooted in Babelian myth, Rundisc’s puzzler invites you to unite five clans occupying the strata of a tower: as a nameless hooded figure, your ultimate goal is to become their interlocutor. First, however, you need to identify the glyphs that comprise their distinctive tongues, using contextualwith the deductive puzzle solving of perhaps the most generous compliment you could pay is that such an enticing description isn’t overselling it by much, if at all.
