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Chants of Sennaar
Developer Rundisc
Chants of Sennaar is a 2023 adventure video game developed by Rundisc and published by Focus Entertainment. It was released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One on 5 September 2023. The game is inspired by Heaven's Vault and Captain Blood. The gameplay mostly involves solving puzzles and minigames which generally require decoding and understanding the fictional languages of the tower. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
406 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
94
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264 positive · 17 negative
95% range 91–96%
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Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
34,670 of 35,296 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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unlabelledView post →they dropped a new game just for me!!!!! i can't recommend Chants of Sennaar enough if you enjoyed Outer Wilds and other games of that nature. it's based on the tower of Babel and you, a silent hooded protagonist, have to teach yourself a language using conversation, signage and context
unlabelledView post →Chants of Sennaar: terrible title, incredible video game. It's a beautiful, haunting logic puzzle reminiscent of Obra Dinn. I played through it all over the last week (~10 hours) and it's one of my favorite games of the year. You should play it www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayVh...
unlabelledView post →During Steam Summer Sale, Chants of Sennaar is, for the very first time, avaible at a 50% discount. Just sayin' store.steampowered.com/app/1931770/...
unlabelledView post →@decassette.bsky.social I've been playing this game called Chants of Sennaar where you have to suss out languages through context puzzles and I feel like it's a vibe you'd like, it's very you-coded. at least a little bit
unlabelledView post →Could write a book about how Chants of Sennaar does everything Heaven's Vault is trying to do about a hundred times better. Lovely game (Sennaar, not HV, HV was very poor)
unlabelledView post →New pinned post for ~2k followers 🎉 Hi there! I'm Thomas, video game composer from Bordeaux, France. To support my work directly: Chants of Sennaar OST on Bandcamp : bit.ly/CoSOST 🎧Streaming: lnk.to/ThomasBrunet... 🎶Sheet music in Full Score on my website, thomasbrunet.fr 📀 Vinyl: SOLD OUT!
unlabelledView post →Have been in a puzzle games mood lately - played Chants of Sennaar the other day which was delightful (reminded me of Heaven's Vault in the best of ways, another game I love), and a small but absolutely lovely game called Gorogoa with one of the most fascinating mechanics I've ever seen. Recommend!
unlabelledView post →I love this game, but I'm devastated that there's not much else like it or not to this standard. I wish I could play this for the first time all over again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Chants of Sennaar (Switch) is $29.99 on Amazon buff.ly/3Z4Nzrl GameStop buff.ly/4hFPSbQ Walmart buff.ly/3CpPq1c #ad also on Game Pass Standard
unlabelledView post →Chants of Sennaar is a remarkable kind of linguistic puzzle game. I can't believe I missed it when it came out last year.
unlabelledView post →- Me Recommend this game - Good Music, The Game Has - Plural Puzzle Require Plural Thinking - Game Too Long Not, Too Short Not
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have to start with a little premise: being graduated in foreign languages myself and a linguistics fanatic when I saw the game was basically becoming a Rosetta Stone aiming to unify 5 different populations I couldn't believe me eyes! This game, apart from the superb Mobius inspired visuals, is the big task of learning 5 languages and make everyone understandable to the other. To do this, you'll have to survive many stealth sessions (annoying, but not too hard luckily) and you'll have to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Chants of Sennaar is 40% off on Steam, just sayin' store.steampowered.com/app/1931770/...
unlabelledView post →My #SteamSummerSale recommendation is Chants of Sennaar. Such a great and unique game! store.steampowered.com/app/1931770/...
unlabelledView post →I want to put in a plug for Chants of Sennaar which is currently on Game Pass. If the thought of language acquisition as a game mechanic sets your heart aflutter, this might be up your alley.
unlabelledView post →Chants of Sennaar is a fantastic casual puzzle game I highly recommend. I just finished up Magic Research 2 with 100% and had this one waiting in the wings. It's very charming, and clever and rewarding.
unlabelledView post →I've been playing this game my sister found called Chants of Sennaar that is all about language and translation and it is SO GOOD. Teasing the brain in the best way. Highly rec if you're looking for a game to take your focus that isn't about fighting.
unlabelledView post →Just in time for the week-end, Chants of Sennaar is now ✨Available on GoG✨, and with a -40% launch discount! www.gog.com/fr/game/chan...
unlabelledView post →Chants of Sennaar is an absolute gem of a puzzle game for linguistic nerds. We’re talking Rosetta Stone meets Tower of Babel with a gorgeous atmosphere. Plus it is currently 35% off on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/1931770/...
unlabelledView post →If you asked me before playing this game 'would mandatory stealth sections improve your enjoyment of a puzzle game' my answer would have been no. After, it is still no. Luckily, everything else is exceptional enough to make these sections bearable.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR : A good game that would have been so much better if it focused on what it was doing great, the glyph guessing part. The game is gorgeous, the music is good, the world is intriguing as a alternative Babel tower. The actual glyph guessing is really well made, it feels incredibly rewarding to finally understand a sentence, a sign you didn't get at all. In that aspect, it reminded me of Obra Dinn and Golden Idol, as a detective game that actually promotes doing deductions. The issue…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No combat, just me beefing with ancient glyphs. Accidentally spent hours decoding fictional languages. 10/10 would decode again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I appreciated that Chants of Sennaar included credits for the specific cats that voiced the cats of the game.
unlabelledView post →🍅 LIVE NOW 🍅 playing Chants of Sennaar, a language puzzle game similar to 7 Days to Die with You twitch.tv/tomatomagica #chantsofsennar #vtuber #KisaNiya
unlabelledView post →500+ followers! This thing is on! Welcome everyone, I guess I have yet to figure out how to make a pinned post so in short: I'm a game composer and I wrote the score for Chants Of Sennaar. Not an avid poster, but the vibe here is increasingly piquing my interest.
unlabelledView post →Pretty much what happened for Chants Of Sennaar (although chances are if a game director reaches out this way, they've been looking for a while)
unlabelledView post →Chants of Sennaar is $9.99 on XBL buff.ly/40m8Mhp Switch $25 US Dollars at VGP buff.ly/4fJp0Wa $29.99 Amazon buff.ly/3Z4Nzrl also on Game Pass Standard
unlabelledView post →Just here to remind you that Chants of Sennaar is a wonderful game for both logic and language nerds. There’s really nothing quite like it.
unlabelledView post →A short, but very enjoyable puzzle game all about decoding and translating fictional languages. While slow and a little annoying to navigate at times, the game more than makes up for it by letting you naturally explore and discover what all the different glyphs mean, how the people from different locations speak (like the difference in their grammar). My favorite part of the entire game was the translation sections of the terminals, trying to re-establish communication between these people, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Chants of Sennaar is the most beautiful game I have ever played and the best puzzle game I have ever played. If you love translating languages mixed with puzzles set in a minimalist, Moebius aesthetic then run to play this.
unlabelledView post →Chants of Sennaar was so darn good. Finished it tonight and it's a lovely puzzle game that combines Obra Dinn and Tunic into a relaxing exploration of language and culture that I loved from start to finish.
unlabelledView post →Chants of Sennaar premise, on theory, is such a good idea. And then, it actually delivers on that idea. You are thrown into this mysterious tower filled with different peoples, different cultures, and, most importantly, different languages. But the game does not tell you what anything means, you have to figure it out. You observe symbols, connect them to objects, actions, people, places, and slowly start building meaning from context. The system is genuinely satisfying. Every time you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This month we had the huge honor of joining @kimchica.bsky.social on @geeksandgrounds.bsky.social to talk about Chants of Sennaar!! We had such a fun and fascinating chat about this language-focused game and are big fans of Geeks & Grounds! You don’t wanna miss this one 💜 youtu.be/r67WiDDd1NM?...
unlabelledView post →Wow! Chants Of Sennaar won "Best Indie Game" at the New York Game Awards! 🥳 Thank you.
unlabelledView post →I wish I could give myself memory loss so I could re-live the wonder of playing this game for the first time again. Not only are the graphics and soundtrack gorgeous, the gameplay is incredibly satisfying and intuitive. At no point does the game hold your hand, but every step and every puzzle is set up to incrementally introduce you to new concepts and allows you to arrive to the solution entirely on your own. As someone who has been playing puzzle games (both IRL, tabletop, and digital) for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Live in 15 mins with Chants of Sennaar! It's a language deciphering puzzle game with amazing style & I'm a great big bimbo lizard who doesn't understand a darn thing, so come hang out at www.twitch.tv/iggymaid #indie #vtuber #twitch #ChantsofSennaar
unlabelledView post →As a linguist, playing through this game for the first time was thrilling and delightful. I was so pleasantly surprised by the depth and variety of the languages presented in the game and how they became increasingly complex, as I am used to games where the "secret language" is just English but with the letters exchanged, like many fictional "languages". Clearly, the people who made this game are passionate about language and wanted to make a game that paid homage to as many world languages as…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i love this game a lot and wish there were more games like this. the whole process of slowly figuring out what each word is is so much fun. wish the last language had a little more figuring out like the other languages have, but the method introduced with the last language is also a lot of fun! also, fairly replayable, tho mostly so if you have some time between replays
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you (any applies) learn foreign languages grew up multi-lingual multi-cultural lived abroad for a longer time -> PLAY IT The game takes a very mature stance of "To understand the world, we must understand others." Shows very elegantly how language and culture are intertwined.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I cannot for the life of me understand why this is Overwhelmingly Positive. Sure, the concept is interesting, but the implementation is terrible: this could have just been a point and click game, and the experience would have been infinitely better. Everything that is not point and click in this game is poorly designed and juste wasting the time of the player: the scenes are unecessarily huge, and any time you have to go between two locations, you spend 20-30 seconds watching your character…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing this game reminds me of my recent experience with FFX, where you collect language books to learn another language and gradually come to understand it. Unlike simply gathering books, however, this game has you write down notes for every glyph you encounter as you progress. After making certain progress, you can verify your guesses by matching each glyph to its corresponding image. I played this game on the Steam Deck, so using English, with its 26 letters for input, is more convenient…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On the third week of blawnkmaaas, blawnk gave to meeee....LINGUISTICS PUZZLES!! 📖 YUP. Chants of Sennaar is a game *entirely* about deciphering language, and I've put it off 'til now somehow! This is gonna be just like my old homework~ > twitch.tv/blawnk < [ #vtuber #indiegames #chantsofsennaar ]
unlabelledView post →I’m live on Twitch continuing Chants of Sennaar!! Come watch me go down an ultra nerdy linguistics rabbit hole with this game 🤓 twitch.tv/aspecificegg
unlabelledView post →Belatedly getting around to playing Chants of Sennaar. That game is such a gift to linguistics nerds.
unlabelledView post →Chants of Sennaar is a fucking sensational game btw. We just finished it and absolutely blown away from start to finish.
unlabelledView post →The game has different maps, and each area feels very unique. The first few areas were actually more intense than I expected because you have to avoid the followers chasing you while trying to reach the end. My favorite part was the garden area with the bards. The atmosphere felt super unique, the music was really relaxing, and I loved the whole exotic vibe of the place. The puzzle design is also really cool. You slowly figure out what the symbols mean so you can unlock passwords and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A truly incredible game! Terribly original, clever, and poetic. Two layers of puzzles overlap throughout the adventure: first, the discovery and learning of the different languages that the game asks you to decipher through various interactions, and then more traditional puzzles that you must solve to progress. The two systems blend together smoothly and intelligently, even if it can sometimes feel a bit frustrating due to the amount of backtracking in the environments. Fortunately, these…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very fun and interesting game, in game documentary is superb as well, I don't have to write any clue down on a piece of paper or anything.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Such a cool and unique premise! In this game you will learn different languages from scratch using purely contextual cues and interacting with people. It has a super intuitive interface for this too, with a notebook where you write your guesses for the meaning of each character until you eventually confirm them. Love the themes of reconnecting people and basking in the cultural differences of each group within the tower. So much can be gleamed from a people just by its language. Which words…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How do you make music for a puzzle game? We've got Thomas Brunet, the composer for Chants Of Sennaar, to answer that question on the third day of ThinkyCon! thinkygames.com/even...
unlabelledView post →Chants of Sennaar 10-15+ hours to complete, Chants of Sennaar is essentially just a giant logic puzzle loosely based off the Tower of Babel, where each civilization on the tower’s floors speaks a completely different language and you’ve got to translate and decipher each one to figure out what it is you are supposed to be doing to get to the top of it. While this may sound like a complicated game, it’s not terrible as the character is smarter than the player and gives you confirmation when you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm 100%ing every game I own. I then rank them. Chants of Sennaar was recommended to me after I had beaten Outer Wilds, as it was quite similar to it. And yeah. It is a game you can only play once. Chants of Sennaar is a game where you run around and learn new languages. The language isn't anything crazy, it follows a glyph based system. It is also pretty simple, such as "me like you" or "me go bye" The way you learn the languages is very fun though. You have a notebook that you record all…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →what a lovely little game a couple of the stealth sections were annoying, and the communication links stuff where you were translating... UI could be better(have what word each symbol means shown on the input side)... spent alot of time trying to find the right symbol to associate to a word.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played Chants of Sennaar for a little bit now and I quite enjoy the language learning system! Sometimes I would even wish that the game wouldn't tell you at all which words you used just for the true foreign language learning experience Love the stylistic choices, love the menus, gonna play more
unlabelledView post →If you're looking for another amazing Xbox game in a super-limited physical edition, Chants of Sennaar is available here with (as far as I can tell) worldwide shipping! www.pixnlove.com/video-games/...
unlabelledView post →three minutes away from finishing CHANTS OF SENNAAR and it’s a beauty what a game yes what a game
unlabelledView post →Fantastic game. I’ll be rating this 9/10. Just finished my first playthrough and it really amazed me. I’m a language enthusiast myself and hence directly made my purchase after watching some online vids, but the gameplay is far more than just decoding the characters. In other words, it’s an intellectual and artistic expedition, a beautifully crafted journey about connection itself. The real magic isn‘t just in figuring out what’s everyone talking about, but in the moment everything clicks —…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Late to the party I guess but I finished and thoroughly enjoyed Chants of Sennaar. Brilliant, gorgeous game, deciphering each word and sentence was such a thrill! (don't watch the trailer if you know you want to play it, discovering each new area was pure joy) www.youtube.com/watch?v=__hz...
unlabelledView post →A phenomenal deduction game based somewhat loosely on linguistics, leveraging heavily on the concept of linguistic determinism and relativism. Even if you aren't into that aspect of language, it's a great deduction and puzzle game. That said, if I never have to do this game's sneak minigame again it'll be too soon. I did come up against a particularly wild bug, where I had collected all the graphemes in the game, but the power went out, and when it came back up I was still in the last stage…
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