RecommendedSteam player

02/22/2025

A very flawed and beautiful game. The entire point of the game is frustration that you can't make sense of basic language. You'll spend the lion's share of the game just trying to fill out your dictionary to give meaning to the dialogue; the game is super short and the dictionary carries over between each play through. It also has an excellent interface that is not nearly as confusing as it sounds it would be. A catch-22 concept, because it's doomed to be too short to stretch it's wings to give all the work put in it's proper payout without forcing superfluous vocabulary. This gives way too many words such limited usage that you'll be mostly guessing, a fact acknowledged and celebrated by the opening of the game. This also means when you've hit your personal bedrock of logic and vocabulary, and inevitably crack open the steam-guides dictionary piggy bank you will find more layers of context to the story; either a pro or a con depending on how you view external information. The story is incredibly simple, and in retrospect there are so few lines of dialogue that I feel tricked by it having such an emotional impact on me, but something about needing to piece it together yourself in the most literal sense made it very impactful. This isn't a game I'll ever be able to play again, but I feel like I'll think about a lot.Show moreShow less

3.4 hours at review279 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

05/15/2022

A pretty cool concept, but it's let down by a lot of the implementation. The basic premise is to look at the letter layout of the words you see, combine them with the context of the situation and figure out the meaning. For example, "This word has 5 letters, the last two letters are identical, and it's located next to words that I already figured out mean 'one' and 'two' so this word must be 'three.'" As such, the player slowly increases their own vocabulary and is able to figure out more of what's going on around them. However, the farther you get, the more problems become apparent. Some very useful words like understand (which is necessary to answer some questions) are actually spelled wrong, so you will never be able to think of a word that actually matches their letter layout. Some words are used in ways that make it very clear that this is a translation that does not actually fit the situation "research" is used for situations meaning actual research, investigations, and looking for objects (probably ported from Japanese's "shiraberu") and "means" is the word chosen for "method of how to do something" and for the longest time, I was convinced it was "basic" because I thought I was getting offers of being "taught the basics of cooking" , and then there's incredibly basic words that the game never actually tells you, despite wanting you to know some of them you are repeatedly asked yes or no questions, but the game literally never teaches you how to say yes until what I assume to be the final ending. Instead, you are asked if you understand and you have to reply with "understand" which is another distinctly-japanese way of speaking that didn't quite get localized to account for English habits. It does make sense to do that in English, but I doubt it's going to be our first reaction, especially if we only know like 20 words in a language Actually, the more I write this review, the more I think of weird translation choices from Japanese that make this game more frustrating than anything. usual (futsuu) where they want "medium," small (sukoshi) for "a bit" as in "you understand a bit of language," and disappear (inai) for "gone" (this one was also misspelled pretty badly as "disap" according to decoders). So while I could accept the fact that even a full dictionary was going to result in broken English due to no more than three words being said per line, some of the resulting phrases are still unnecessarily hard to decipher. If you want to play this game, it would be a major boon to be able to speak Japanese and go into this game thinking of their syntax, habits, and speech patterns...unfortunately, I didn't shift my thinking properly until very very late in the game and it really cost me.Show moreShow less

4.2 hours at review150 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

02/28/2026

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10Show moreShow less

4.5 hours at review139 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

03/02/2025

I do like this game and the unique type of game play it offers. That said, I am very frustrated by the difficulty in the latter half of the game. Some words are near impossible to guess by context. Let me explain: Conversational words like "meet, so, then, all" were very difficult to decode, as you could only guess them by the context of the sentences they were in, rather than being taught via environment or chores. This wouldn't be so hard, if it weren't for the fact that most of the sentences are grammatically incorrect in terms of word order. With this layered on top of the gimmick of sentences being 3 words long max, it makes for a frustrating experience. To what I'm aware, everything is a direct translation from the original Japanese text. In other words, things are written in a Japanese grammatical structure. (Ex: "Do cooking want?" Instead of, "Want do cooking?") Or otherwise, uses words that don't necessarily have an English equivalent. Like the word "meet" is used in strange ways. (Ex: "meet human danger!" when there is an unwanted knock at the door) Although it says all interpretations are correct, there is indeed a perfect translation to this game, as the fake language words are generated via cesarean cipher. Looking at the translation from a guide. I don't think I could have reasonably guessed the words with the context given, not without knowing how to decode the cipher. I enjoy the game in concept, but the impossible-ness of translating the game was very frustrating. Learning new information about what is going on in the game isn't even very rewarding either, you can change nothing in the game beyond the very end of the game, where you can unlock a unique cutscene by picking a very specific dialogue option path. It leaves me to wonder what I just spent the last 6 hours doing.Show moreShow less

7.1 hours at review112 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

03/22/2023

How can cooking make you cry? It's a thought I had while sitting in my chair making these recipes that the game handed over to me, reading the same dialogue with not even 10 different words again and again. Food, to me, has always been more like sustenance than something to enjoy. I think it started because my mom wasn't good at cooking and so it was just how I viewed food. She also does this thing that I really dislike: She always cooks too much. It's wasteful when we threw the left over away. Sometimes, we would eat the same thing for like 2-3 days. I refused to eat the old food often enough that it was her who ended up eating those most of the time. I thought that that was weird. "Really, wouldn't it be better if we just make less since you'll be cooking again tomorrow anyway?" In the last 2 years I was with my parents before moving out I just told my mom that it would be better to just buy pre-made meal from a store because it's cheaper (when factoring in labour). Now... Now, I feel differently about it. I worked at a restaurant for 2 years during university. Sometimes, the customers would thank us for the food and to that I thought "Well, we have to do a good job or go out of business. Nothing special." Whenever I cook for myself it's always something wretched like boiled vegetable with rice and salt. I guess what I want to say is why would you want to cook for anyone? The answer is almost too simple. You cook for people you care about. It's a way of expressing love even if taken for granted too often. My mom was just clumsy. Thinking about it now, it would be hurt me deeply if instead of hearing "Thanks, I love your food a lot. I'm really happy that you cook for me every day!" I would get myself. Maybe I have just grown overly attached to a fictional character, maybe you wouldn't get it at all after finishing the game but it was very touching for me. If you decide to play it, I hope that you will struggle and try your heart out to find the exact words to express your feelings. In the last 3 days I have been staying up late, until 6AM yesterday to decode what was going on in this game. It reeled me in because of the mysteries and a puzzle that I have never seen before. I have always liked sitting silently for hours or days to solve problems. I think if you like that sort of thing, you would enjoy the game. I want to tell you how much I love this game but explaining too much would ruin the experience for you. It's a bitter feeling. I want to tell the world about it. I understand your position better now, both the reader looking to get in and the people writing their thoughts after finishing the game. Initially, I was also unsure of what people like about the game and here I am, perpetuating the same infinite cycle. I wish steam would allow users to write reviews in multiple languages instead of having to pick the one that would have the most reach. I realised while playing that there are certain quirks about a language game that strongly disfavor certain demographics. I would really like to write this again urging people to play the game anyway in spite of that.Show moreShow less

20.7 hours at review126 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

02/08/2025

This is a very barebones "decipher"-game. There are not enough words to properly derive meaning out of the context, mostly because every sentence is max. 3 words long. And the few words you CAN decipher easily, do not help at all with the important stuff (you never needed to know the colors red/blue/green or numbers 1-9). Also, the few things you can do, and where the "common words are useful (like tending to the garden and cooking ) have absolutely no influence on the endings, which do not provide enough "context" for anything. Then there also very annying controll bugs, like the spacebar only forwarding text, after you clicked the mouse etc. This game needed to cook for a lot longer to add more words and hints for context.Show moreShow less

3.5 hours at review45 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

02/21/2025

Only three hours in and it's been so much fun. As a linguistic enthusiast this game scratches my brain in a very good way. If you love solving puzzles, deciphering messages, and making abstract connections paired with a mysterious story, I would highly recommend the game! I'll make an update when I get nearing to "finishing" the game. Update: Roughly 12 hours into the game, and have discovered most of the words meanings. I have to say the biggest source of enjoyment is when you start to begin to understand the dialogue between the characters while looking back and seeing how far you have come. I would love to have the opportunity to try this game out again with a blank slate again!Show moreShow less

12.3 hours at review68 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

05/05/2025

The only way to truly decipher the language is through a tedious code. The idea that you could figure out the language from just the context clues, and that the "world will change according to your understanding" of the language seemed cool, but nope, trying to make sense of the game and story without the code is near impossible and pretty frustrating. Once you do figure out the code, there's pretty much nothing to do besides get to the end of the seven days and get one of a few endings. Pretty disappointed, and wondering if I'm missing something based on all the good reviews.Show moreShow less

4.5 hours at review32 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

04/13/2025

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10Show moreShow less

2.9 hours at review67 people found this helpful

Received for free

Not recommendedSteam player

05/10/2026

I'm on the fence about this one, but I don't think I can recommend it. I found a recommendation for this game while looking for games like Chants of Sennaar where you learn a language. I want to make an important distinction between this game and that one for those like me: the language in this is not really a language, it's just lazily encrypted English. Because of this, it feels less like learning a language and more like solving a crossword. e.g. What's a 5-letter word for a leafy green shrub? On top of this, the gameplay is incredibly scarce. The entire game takes place in a house with only like four rooms, and most of the time you're just pointing at things and being told the word for them. As you work out what some of the words are, it'll be easier to discover other ones until eventually you've worked out enough of the language that you can end the game. There's just not a lot to it. The only driving aspect is the plot, which is mysterious enough to keep you playing for awhile, but for me personally, it wasn't enough to see things to the end. After a few hours, I spoiled the rest. I do think that it's a plot worth investing in, although I wouldn't call it groundbreaking, and I don't regret my decision to stop when I did. It just kind of feels like a jam game to me. It's a fun concept but it's too half-baked and short to be worth paying for. If you can somehow get your hands on this for free, maybe it's worth it if the concept really appeals to you.Show moreShow less

3.9 hours at review28 people found this helpful

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
Simplified Chinese	Yes	—	—
Traditional Chinese	Yes	—	—
English	Yes	—	—

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
French	Yes	—	—
Italian	Yes	—	—
German	Yes	—	—
Spanish	Yes	—	—
Portuguese	Yes	—	—
Portuguese-Brazil	Yes	—	—
Russian	Yes	—	—
Japanese	Yes	—	—
Korean	Yes	—	—

7 Days to End with You

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