So here's a difficult one to play AND to rate.
Clearly, the ambience and the writing, wow that was something. The narration, just enough details to clearly see what's going on and immerge into what's being said.
But this is not only something written, and I'm quite unsure about how I've experienced the whole. The mechanics seems at first very straightforward, but of course it becomes more and more difficult.
And even though I can see why that was the experience the designers were looking for... I coudln't finish the game. Frustration (and clearly, lack of patience ^^") made me quit. But the intention as art is there (on top of that, the game is originally from a game jam !).
So I personally did not want to "enjoy" or "live" the experience until the end, but I could see where it was going and thanks to youtube, I could have a grasp of the overall experience.
So even though I didn't want this experience, I clearly needed to try it and try to grasp what was going on. In the end, as an unique experience, I believe pit of Babel succeds and is a gem that needs to be tried :D Thanks for this game (and one day, I'll come for you, brutal orchestra !!).