[_peeley]

Heaven's Vault is a good one. It's a very indie point-and-click type adventure game with really nice storybook-style visuals and music. You play as an interstellar archaeologist exploring ruins and piece-by-piece deciphering an ancient pictographic language for clues and lore, so as you progress through the game you basically learn this constructed language. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in linguistics/writing systems/Unicode nerds.

[hcs]

Great example! I'd tried playing this but got nervous about making the wrong deductions; my background in reverse engineering (but not linguistics) wanted to keep all options open until I had more data. Definitely need to give it a retry, there probably isn't another game that does as much to involve the player in a story about decipherment.