The Archivist
Controls: Click the shelf for the lowest page, or press 1 Latin, 2 Greek, 3 Arabic, 4 Hebrew. Burn forgeries with 5, F or the brazier. P pauses.
About The Archivist
Father Tomaso Calvi is a Vatican archivist who has spent his life among Latin, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew manuscripts. When Rome falls, a whole library comes down on him at once.
The Archivist is a fast sorting game. Pages drift down the screen, and you shelve the lowest one by its script before it is lost. The pace keeps rising and long streaks multiply your score. After a while, pages with a red seal start to appear: those are forgeries, and they belong in the brazier.
The Crescent Crusade
The Archivist is a free companion game to The Crescent Crusade by M.R. Halloran. If the game hooks you, the full story continues in the book series.
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