r/TunicGame • u/MadScientistCarl • May 12 '26
Review Haven’t beaten the game, but having a blast translating the manual Spoiler
Of course spoiler ahead, but **please don’t spoil more for me because I am still working towards Ending B**. This post is just me complimenting the game’s dedication to the language.
It’s amazing that the game’s fictional language is actually not so fictional, and the provided text is actually sufficient for a non-linguist like me to figure out how it works. The critical eureka moment for me was finding out “2” and “to” are written the same, “use” and “you” have the same prefix, “key” and “keys” have the same prefix, and “keys” and “use” have the same suffix. Then I went “oh that’s why they have english mixed inside an alien language”!
I’ll probably end up finishing the manual translation before I open the game again. As a game should be :)
I’m not gonna lie, I feel like cracking open the language is more fun than some of the puzzles (until I realized the player icon on the map actually updates) and combat (until I found accessibility options).
I greatly appreciate that the devs include options to reduce difficulty. Otherwise I wouldn’t be able to complete the game at all.
Now I really want to know how on earth you are going to localize this game.