This guide shows the mapping from the runes found in the game to the English alphabet, translations of the text that uses these runes, and translations of the language spoken by the few robots who don't speak the same language as the player

If you find any additional locations to translate, please let me know and I'll update the guide (please include a screenshot if you can)



As far as I can tell, there aren't any secrets to be found as a result of these translations, just additional lore


I've marked some places as spoilers, but TBH this whole guide is somewhat of a spoiler, so if you'd rather figure out the translations yourself, stop reading now! 😁

I was able to decode this by recognizing the word Arcadia in one of the rooms, after which it was relatively easy to pick off the remaining letters one by one

Having done this, I later realized that the chalkboard in the Snailbot Burrow contains the entire alphabet in order

HAIKU


WE ARE THE EXILED ROBOTS


SHOP


PRONTO

THECON DUCTOR
WELCOME


ELEGYS ACCOUNT


ELEGYS ACCOUNT


ABCDEFGHI JKLMNOPQR STUVWXYZ
THE ELDER


MESSAGE DELIVERED


PROTOTYPE ROOM USED TO TEST AND VALIDATE DESIGN CONCEPTS


TEST ROOM


ELEGYS REST


BY SEALING OFF OLD ARCADIA WE OBSCURE OUR CREATORS ORIGINS
IT KEEPS THEIR MEMORIES SEPARATE FROM OUR FLOWERING EVOLUTION
MERE FRAGM ENTS OF A FORGOTTEN PAST WITHIN THESE HIDDEN WALLS



This one was a little trickier to figure out

Each of the segments of text streaming down the screen includes only 9 letters at any given time, but they are scrolling through a single looping message which reads (spaces added by me):

GO HAIKU THE ROBOT THE END IS NEAR

with the single dot (the inverse of the "O" rune) at the end. I didn't add that to the mapping because it's not clear exactly what type of punctuation it's supposed to be

The hallway leading to this fight contains the same text

When this area is revisited after defeating the boss, the text MAINFRAME is displayed, mirrored and read counterclockwise


SYSTEM REBOOTING


TARGET
SUBJECT
CORRUPT MODE COMPLETE

The language used by the robots in the game is ROILA[roila.org] (Robot Interaction Language)


SHE CLEAN WAY. WATER SHE MOVE FREE.


DELICATE FIRE AND FLAME, FREE THIS LAND FROM ILL AND HATE.
BREATH IN NEW LIFE FROM DEATH.