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- Focus Home Interactive
- Focus Home Interactive
- Focus Home Interactive
- Focus Home Interactive
Chants of Sennaar
Released On: Sep 5, 2023
85
8.5
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
85
93% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
7% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
85
93% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
7% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Chants of Sennaar is a strikingly stylish and, above all, playfully addictive puzzler, where you have to decipher foreign languages to understand the puzzles and their world. For me, it's a big hit, which certainly didn't come out at the most opportune time of the year. But ambitious tinkerers should not lose sight of it despite everything.
An immensely clever and unique game, Chants of Sennaar expertly captures the power of language through its well-crafted cultures and its intricate and perfectly-challenging puzzles, turning the art of translation into a captivating bit of gameplay. By the time you’ll have validated your last glyph, you’ll still be left wanting more, but what we have here still makes for a terrific journey that is not to be missed out on.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 73 User Ratings
8.5
85% Positive
62 Ratings
62 Ratings
8% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
7% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 73 User Ratings
8.5
85% Positive
62 Ratings
62 Ratings
8% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
7% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
An amazing game that will make you binge it for hours. The scenery is beautiful, the story is entertaining, and the gameplay is extremely unique but simple in theory… but hard to actually accomplish in practice.
The objective is simple… reverse engineer entire languages with nothing but texts or speech. Simple, right? Maybe not, but it wouldn’t be a fun challenge if it were! But don’t be dismayed, as the game won’t leave you hopeless for long. Moving on is often the best choicefor figuring outwords, and backtracking often requires. Somehow, this is never boring though, as while doing so, you will be instead learning new languages in the game’s world, how they work, and how the context of words is done. If nothing else, you can make an educated guess at certain points of the game, and the game will confirm if they are correct, so you will never be stuck for very long.
In conclusion, a beautiful casual game to relax to, while also being fun and investing, that will make you think about it when you’re not playing! And as a bonus, works extremely well on the steamdeck!
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There aren’t many experiences quite like Chants of Sennaar. It offers linguistic gameplay that is simple to understand but can be complex to truly solve. Its messages about communication and understanding are simple but completely universal in today’s world. From the aesthetics to the satisfying and engaging gameplay, it’s easy to get wonderfully lost in Chants of Sennaar.
Chants of Sennaar is an original production full of great ideas, artistically valid and solid in its gameplay. Net of some perhaps excessively cryptic sections and a sense of disorientation that can sometimes be quite strong, especially when you are a little away from the base of the Tower, Rundisc has created a work of strongly distinctive features and well characterized, with an important message: the building of language lies on the changing foundations of the human, and access to its depths and its mysteries is essential to tell stories, discover truths, but also manipulate and overwhelm the members of our communities. This underlying ambiguity is Chants of Sennaar's beating heart.
A pretty, immersive and brilliant puzzle game that will challenge you just enough for you to truly appreciate your own deductive skills and efforts.
Chants of Sennaar is a good and immersive puzzle game with a lot of riddles to discover in a unique setting. The player is involved directly in myths and legends with the object to connect ancient populations through the words power.
The result is an interesting and impressive game that ultimately feels more than a bit academic, where solving intricate puzzles to uncover the hidden inner workings of a strange world mostly feels like an interactive and particularly creative linguistic anthropology lesson.
Absolutely brilliant—a game that reveals the ingenuity and creative joy of its developers like few games do (Papers, Please; The Room series; Paradise Killer; Hades). I bow with respect and awe for the game’s creators.
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PC
This game offers a very satisfying gameplay mixing translation and detective work, in gorgeous environments reminiscent of Moebius comics. It is a short and condensed experience (6-10 hours) rich in ah-HA moments where everything clicks and suddenly the whole world starts making sense. Highly recommended to those who enjoyed games such as Return Of The Obra Dinn.
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Summary Divided since the dawn of time, the Peoples of the Tower no longer speak to each other. But it is said that one day, a Traveler will find the wisdom to break down the walls and restore the Balance. Explore and discover an enthralling world in a colorful, poetic setting inspired by the myth of Babel, where men have forgotten their past...
Platforms:
- PC
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox One
- PlayStation 4
Initial Release Date: Sep 5, 2023
Developer:
- Rundisc
Publisher: Focus Home Interactive
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