Within a month of being released, indie action-slasher Tunic has already had its in-game language translated by a player who says it adds “nice lore and flavour”.
Posted on Reddit (thanks, Eurogamer), user Oposdeo hasn’t actually finished the game and is only a few hours into it, but has translated the world’s fictional language for all to read.
You can see how some of the words appear to work, as well as the structure of the language, here.
Oposdeo said: “Of the 44 English phonemes, I think two are not used, since they have very similar alternatives, and I think the “ure” phoneme in “pure” is treated as “ore” in this game, as the symbol is used for words like your and north, despite there not being a formal “ORE” phoneme”.
They added, “I’ve translated maybe ten guidebook pages to find all these symbols, so I’m quite confident in them, though maybe there’s a couple rare ones missing”.
