Babel is an absolutely gorgeous book. Vibrant colours, brilliant use throughout of an inspirational artwork, and lovely clean layout. If you can manage to get a print copy, it’s a joy to flip through.
It’s also a very good game. Based on the Wretched & Alone engine, it draws a really clear connection between the artefacts of play and game’s themes: the tumbling block tower is the Tower of Babel, a set of letter tiles represent The Unified Language you seek, and you record your diary in a journal from which you tear the first five pages - the first piece of the mystery.
As a solo journalling game, Babel contains a lot of prompts for the player to respond to. The prompt design is really strong, an excellent mix of physical actions and questions. The questions are expertly written: a very specific sense prompt followed by a very general question. This gives the player a lot to work with, while still staying general enough to make it easy to come up with things that fit the current character and narrative.
I really loved this game. Heartily recommend checking it out!