Chants of Sennaar

Developed by Rundisc Published by Focus Entertainment

Games I've Completed

I played Chants of Sennaar on Steam Deck after buying it on a whim. It’s a wonderful adventure game about communication. There are multiple groups of people in the world each of which speak a different language, you can’t understand any of them and none of the groups can speak to each other.

It reminded me a little of Another World in style, though there is no combat. The game is entirely based around puzzles, and figuring out languages. Each group has a unique set of glyphs and their own grammar. You have a notebook where you can try to interpret the meanings, and if you get a page completely correct then it becomes verified.

I found the whole game captivating, it’s a really unique idea and the difficulty scaled perfectly.