Roset

ROSET is a roguelite arcade game about deciphering ancient scripts.

Glyphs fall from the top of the screen. You type the letters they represent. The faster you learn, the further you go.

Each civilization has its own alphabet — from familiar Roman letters to Egyptian hieroglyphs and Sumerian cuneiform. As you progress, the scripts become increasingly distant from the Latin alphabet you know.

Between stages, choose artefacts that shape your run. Some help you learn faster. Some make things harder in exchange for power. Some are cursed.

On the sides of the screen, fragments of ancient inscriptions slowly decipher themselves as you learn. They tell the story of each civilization — how they lived, how they disappeared, and why their writing survived.

The final revelation only appears when you have read everything.