How to play
- Goal
- Decipher the old language and restore the six sanctuaries.
- How it ends
- Restore every location to complete the journey; mistaken names can always be revised.
- Record
- Your first unaided time and fewest first-attempt invocations are kept for each location.
- Read the goal at the top of the scene. It tells you which change the sanctuary needs.
- Inspect the carvings and compare their signs with the scenes they describe. Words read from left to right.
- Tap runes into the empty slots and Speak the name. Tap a filled slot or Erase to revise it. Wrong names lose no progress.
- Use your Fieldbook for tentative translations and to revisit inscriptions you have inspected. Successful names confirm their words.
- Restore a location to continue. A hint explains the current change but makes its first discovery unranked; completed revisits preserve the original result.
Controls
| Click / tap | Inspect carvings, compose names, and use the Fieldbook |
|---|---|
| Tab + Enter / Space | Move between and activate controls |
| Backspace | Erase the last rune |
| Escape | Close a panel |
| Shift+R · Restart (press twice) | Start the location over; Clear empties the slots |
No time limit. First-discovery time continues through reloads. Revisits are untimed, and hints do not replace an existing first result. No ads inside the game.
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About Names of Power
Decipher a forgotten language through carved clues, then speak names that transform a fantasy sanctuary. A door opens, a tree flowers, a stone keeper wakes, and water returns to a silent fountain.
Explore six sanctuaries and learn 32 words through actions, light sources, prohibitions and gifts. Later puzzles ask you to infer a safe change or deduce which vessel holds what you need. Learned words, working translations and unfinished discoveries persist in this browser.
