# Language of The Stones — A stone ritual puzzle game

> A stone ritual puzzle game (iPhone/iPad app by Michael Hanson.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/language-of-the-stones/id6769770541 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Michael Hanson](https://appshunter.io/developer/1802636548)
- Category: Games, Puzzle, Strategy
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 144 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-05-20
- Data updated: 2026-08-01
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/language-of-the-stones/id6769770541/reviews.md

## What is Language of The Stones?

The stones remember. You are the only one left who can read them.

Language of the Stones is a logic puzzle game about decoding the ritual machinery of a vanished civilisation. Their symbolic engines still function. Their operators are gone. You are not told what the symbols mean. You learn.

Arrange the stones. Set their orientations. Send.

Watch signals trace paths through the grid — bending, branching, inverting, echoing — until the altars wake. Or don't. Reset. Think differently. Try again.


A LANGUAGE YOU LEARN BY DOING

Each symbol has a function. None of them are explained. You discover what Source does in the first puzzle, what Line does in the second, what Turn does when a path needs bending. By the time Split arrives to fork a signal in two directions, you already think in the grammar. By the time Seal arrives to silence an edge of the grid, you understand why silence matters.

Eight symbols. Ninety puzzles. No instructions.


SIX CHAPTERS OF ESCALATING DEPTH

Awakening — The stones remember how to wake.
Paths — Direction is everything. Arrangement is the puzzle.
Contradictions — Not all light is welcome. Polarity matters.
Echoes — What passes through is not lost. Timing matters.
Grammar — Symbols that rewrite other symbols before the signal moves.
The Silent Vault — Some silence is deliberate. Mastery through constraint.


DESIGNED FOR CALM, FOCUSED PLAY

Undo any move. Reset instantly.
No timers. No score. No failure state — only a solution waiting to be found.
Three-tier hints available if you want a nudge without an answer.
Clean, minimal interface. Plays in portrait.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-05-20

No release notes.

## More apps by Michael Hanson

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- [Systematize](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/systematize/id6771240080)

All apps by Michael Hanson: https://appshunter.io/developer/1802636548

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