The Archives of Trevosa
"I am Ludir, oloth-til of Oreleth-cyno-taayen of Trevosa. If this signal has reached you, the situation is dire. The dreadful nyscet lies in wait to destroy, and theevei look to the solaam for an omen: who is the true heir?"
Search through the hidden archives of Trevosa, translate their cultural terms, and uncover the relationships within a complex royal family tree. Can you untangle all seven generations? A challenging narrative deduction game inspired by The Roottrees Are Dead.
How to Play
- Your goal is to identify the name and title for each of the 30 family members.
- On the right, read the documents you've discovered and search for clues.
- Search Trevosan words or family members' names to find the first three documents mentioning them.
- Click a word to search for it.
- Or go to the Search tab and type in your search.
- Based on what you learn, set each person's name and title in the tree. Once 3 people are correct, they'll lock in.
Tips
- Stuck? Enable undiscovered document count under Settings, then check the Archive. This will show how many new documents you can find by searching the words in each document.
- Click on the right side of a scroll to set a bookmark color - this is just for notetaking. Use it for documents you want to revisit, etc.
- Use the notes tab or your own notes!
- You can always use the Filter section at the top of the Archive to search for any text in the documents you've already found.
⚠️ Progress is saved to browser storage, except in Safari, which doesn't allow storage from embedded games.
Credits
Originally created in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 59. Click here for the jam version of the game.
- Bucktown did design and writing.
- Marcus did design and writing.
- Celia did design, code, and UI.
- Rose did the art.
- Music was composed by Marcus prior to the jam.
Thanks for playing! We have more plans for the game, so follow Jamwitch on itch or join our Discord server if you want to be notified of future updates.
Development log
Comments
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This was great! Thank you so much for such a fun game. I played this with my wife and we absolutely adored it! It was phenomenal, I loved the twist at the end.
really satisfying to play :D
A delightful experience, it had the perfect balance of difficulty for me in that it required some careful thought but I was never truly stuck. I really love when games include deduction and language like this, excited for where you take it in the future
this is so much fun! i have always loved games like this, so getting to really sink my teeth into something that reminds me of The Roottrees Are Dead meets Chants Of Senaar is really really incredible. i devoured this
so fun and satisfying! I hope there's an opportunity to learn more about trevosa in the future!
This was wonderful, I loved every minute.
This was a delightful game in miniature, I got surprisingly invested in the family and their trials, great work to create such a sense of characters with such condensed snippets of their records. Hope to see more of your games in future!
Love the idea of this game, but going to see if I can wait for an update that allows you to notate translations in game. I don’t quite have the fortitude for recording however may words this language has manually and consulting my own dictionary 😅
fun challenge
What a fun and challenging experience! I can definitely feel the Roottrees vibe. A couple hours well spent instead of doomscrolling. :)
on the one hand, parts of this frustrated me because I felt like I reached a dead end
on the other, by the solaam I want more
This was excellent. Long enough to be a really fun puzzle, short enough to finish in a morning.
Hey mom look, another language on which I can count to ten! Amazing game and very fun to play
So glad this got recommended to me on the front page. I love these sorts of games and it's the perfect mix of Roottrees and Heaven's Vault for me. Definitely recommending it to my friends who also love this stuff.
So much fun, love how much lore and story there was in such a simple interface and small amounts of text. Very immersive and clever! Great little game
very cool game!!!
amazing game, had so much fun solving the puzzle and understanding the words
An incredible game who kept me occupied for a couple hours! more difficult than I thought! congratss
just finished this, this was genuinely interesting and easy to understand. loved it!!
I wish I could play this for the first time again. The lore and style of the game are amazing, and it was a puzzle that actually managed to feel engaging! Please consider making another installment, maybe!!!
so so fun! never play games likes this so it was a little difficult at first, but it's easy to pick up. the story is super interesting too!!! loved it!!!!! :)
Very fun, definitely an olaith to the Roottrees, scratches that itch perfectly. Takes about 2 hours to complete.
wait, the creator also made My Friends the Monster Trainers... Banger after banger!
Amazing game, I love how naturally you develop the language you need to solve this puzzle
Omg I loved this, just the right mix of challenging and solvable enough to be rewarding. I loved the mystery and language aspects and by the time I finished I was reading everything with little problem, which made me feel very smart lol. The writing is also clearly so carefully crafted and I just love the story! Thanks so much for making it!
This was such a fun game to play!
this was so much fun!!! i'm a sucker for language puzzles, worldbuilding, and games you can knock out in one sitting, and this checked all of my boxes! the gameplay was really fun, the story was really interesting, and all in all it only took me about two hours to complete, including reading every doc in full.
Great fun! Well done!
I really enjoyed the Archives of Trevosa. The game kept me interested throughout as I tried to piece the whole story together. I would make some suggestions regarding the UI, but these have already been made by others, so all there is left for me to do is congratulate the developers. Two thumbs up!
One great game os historian and paleography!
stayed up late finishing this game last night because i could not stop -- it was SO FUN. great job with the game, and i'm excited to see what else you create :3
Lemot talking about beirvet almost made me cry
love this game
this was so hard, at the end i guessed some of the things, i would rather the notes tool be different, maybe have it as a dictionary where you can link other terms, and have it as a floating window you can view while looking at the Tysetei
I LOVE IT, fot me it was so interesting and I was so immersed, I would like to know more about the history of Tresova
I absolutely loved this game! I'm really looking forward to see what else you publish!!
oh i loved this!
Wow it was so hard... I'm sad about getting help online... but it was awesome!
If I can match local words and the text will show the english versions of that word, it would be much easier and fun. We can't see the notepad and texts at the same time so it is hard to match words and understand texts. It is my only feedback.
This was a fantastic game. Thank you so much for making it!
Very good game, glad I heard about it today. Really enjoyed playing it. Some observations for your consideration (or not, do as you wish):
Thanks again for this great game!
So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the thoughts, and I can say that those things are indeed on our list for a future update.
Extremely good game, one of the best out there. Exceptional theme, executed flawlessly. The music is also very atmospheric, reminds me of the professor layton games. In the end, I have a question: can there be a complete list of the terms and their translations? It would really satisfy my curiosity. Great, great work.
Great game, it took me an hour or two without a walkthrough. I really enjoyed the story and it was way less confusing than other games like this!
my friend and i (linguists) are about to lock tf in on this LETS GO!!!! We love this kind of thing. excited.
3 hours later: we finished it !!! we had a really great time working together and got super excited to solve the puzzles. thank you very much :) also, i loved the music a lot!