4.5/5 ★ – Fernofai's review of Epigraph.

Epigraph is the perfect minimal design example of an "Information Game" that leaves you alone with seven artifacts, an unknown language to decipher, and only a short letter from a friend containing hints that are already difficult to apply. The first few steps were certainly the most challenging, and after my initial burst of motivation, there was quite some frustration until I had the first of many revelations during roughly eight hours of puzzling over Epigraph. Because the game refuses to help you with anything, these Heureka moments were so much more rewarding. Until you enter a correct combination on the last artifact, you don't get any confirmation about whether your guesses for certain words are correct or not, and I had a hard time when I didn't know what my next steps should be after applying everything I could deduce from the initial letter. Luckily, all the hints are there - from the way the symbols are structured, where and how often and in which combination words appear, to the figures on some artifacts and the slowly unraveled story. Everything can be used, and since the game doesn't help you, it does not prescribe a certain approach either, which makes it even better. I'd say Epigraph is like Dark Souls: You can hate it for its difficulty or love it for what results from that difficulty.