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Polytron's 2012 indie puzzle platformer. Gomez is a 2D creature discovering a 3D world.

Fez is an indie puzzle platformer. Gomez is a 2D creature who sets out to collect golden cubes to repair space-time after receiving a fez and discovering a third dimension. The core mechanic is shifting a 2D perspective around a 3D world. It was developed by Polytron and released on in 2012.

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What is Fez's alphabet?

I'm trying to translate the Fez alphabet/symbols, numbers included. Could somebody post the deciphered alphabet and numbers please?
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How is the Monolith puzzle in Fez supposed to be solved?

The Monolith puzzle. It confounded players for nearly a week after Fez was released, and ended up being solved by brute force. Surely after all the careful design and five years of development that were put into this game, this puzzle was not meant…
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What does this QR Code hidden in the soundtrack mean?

Since some people were saying that there would be things hidden in the soundtrack, I played a little with "Sonic Visualiser". In the track "Spirit", I've found a QR Code at the end: After cleaning it: 1955 1958 1960 1961 1967 1969 1971 1977 2003…
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What is the secret to the burnt treasure map with the Polytron logo, the candle room, and the floating black monolith?

After lowering the water level, there is a anticube room beneath the first warp zone. In New Game+ first-person view mode, the Polytron logo shows on the floor. After following the treasure map (standing exactly in the hole of the logo, entering the…
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How to solve the "What's my name" security question puzzle

There is a giant rectangle floating above me that says 2 things: Please answer this security question Security question hint: my first half is what it is my second half is half of what made it And there are 8 blocks on the grounds I'm assuming I'm…
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How do I solve the clock room?

There's a room with a huge clock in the temple/science warp zone. I think I just have to wait until something appears, but how long should I wait?
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What's the back-story in Fez?

I've been trying to piece together the backstory of FEZ - this is where I'm up to... There are 4 races in FEZ: Visitors - these appear as floating heads with 3 eyes and 3 tentacles. Long-heads - these have long heads and one eye, they're only seen…
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Is this QR code in Fez useful?

There's a QR code in 16-cubes city but it has been blocked by some obstacle. And I tried to fix the picture to make it clearer but there's still something missing in the top left part. You can clean that up further and replace the missing parts…
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3 Heart Cube Pieces: What next?

We know how to obtain the three heart pieces (or red cubes, if you want), but now? What next? It just doesn't make sense that after doing that, there's no third ending, the Heart Room was already gold, and strictly nothing happens in it. So, like…
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What's the secret of the boiler/technician room in the beginning village?

Do someone know what to do with this room ? It's in the village from the beginning. Edit: I found the solution alone, I didn't notice an hidden poster, during a perspective rotation.
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What do we do with the U-shaped tuning fork pillars?

The controller vibrates when I'm near them, but I don't know what to do. Screenshot of one of them on the map:
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What are the rainy "giant owl" room's secrets?

Off of the dark, rainy node, the one with the owl's head that follows you. The map marks a secret on this node, and a grayed-out child node. Are they two different secrets?
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How is the language code in Fez intended to be solved?

A lot of text in Fez is encoded, including text from a number of NPCs. I'd assumed that you have to do something in-game to unlock the translation, but I haven't come across anything of the sort yet. Is there a Rosetta Stone-style resource in the…
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What is the translation of the tome/book artifact text?

Is the text supposed to translate to something useful? It doesn't appear to follow the language's conventions. How is it deciphered, and in which direction should it be read? Is its content story-related or does it answer the monolith puzzle? (I…
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What are the treasure maps for?

How many are there, and what are they used for? Are they a cipher for something?
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