Strong theme and atmosphere! I liked this puzzle format (a lot), but frankly, I feel there is a mismatch between the tight time limit and the format of the puzzle: If I want to perform meticulous translation work on books and notes, I want that to be slow and deliberate, not brute-forced due to time constraints. Maybe a different trade-off would have been more effective here. 

Additionally: Actions don't always feel like they have an effect: I was quite confused by the safe-combination, since it seemed like I was just booted out of that screen after entering the combination. 

However,  I can absolutely see a game about a desperate librarian trying to keep it together as the world falls into chaos, decay and darkness around them!

What an interesting take on puzzle game, reminds me of "rusty lake" games. Well done

This was really fun. I like word puzzles. And the time limit made it extra tense. Great job.

Who doesn't love a good puzzle! It was quite difficult the first run actually. I had to play twice, and I won, barely. The win condition didn't trigger when I had all 5, I panicked because I had 15 seconds left and I was 100% sure I was right! I clicked the same selections again and one of them triggered the win! You we're really tricky, you had a 2 words that had the same 2-3 letters to start with, I really thought I could get away with translating the first letters only! Good job protecting against that!

To preface, i don't believe i'm your target audience, the point and clicks like this generally don't interest me. I think your style is good, though it doesn't resonate with me, and translation based puzzles really are an interesting design space.

That said, i wish there was an in game way to put down when i've learned a letter, and that the timer were longer to give me more time to explore before sitting down to translate, i needed at least 2 playthroughs to translate the book. I also successfully translated the book, and clicked the right words, and nothing happened, i still lost when the timer ran down. So i'm not sure if that's a glitch or not, but that's the point you lost me as a player.

Still incredible work, the sprite work looks great even if it isn't my thing, i'm glad i got to play what you made c:

The visuals are nice, and the grainy effect fits really well. The sound matches the atmosphere nicely, too. The time limit actually helps with immersion. However, I personally didn’t understand the puzzle—the most logical solution to the spell didn’t seem to work. Maybe we just clicked the wrong thing :)

Nice art and dreadful atmosphere (in a good way). The eldritch being slowly consuming the environment was a strong touch. The music works, game could use better implementation of SFXs. The puzzle while being clear is a tad bit confusing, but that might just be a skill issue on my end, also I think you can use layered solution rather than one big answer to show progression better. Overall pretty decent entry!