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Chants of Sennaar: language puzzle adventure on Android
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- Puzzles built on decoding invented glyphs and grammar
- Each tower level with its own culture and language
- Clues worked out through observation, listening and deduction
- Free to try, with a paid unlock for the full game
- Art style the listing describes as Moebius-inspired
- Story told through a Traveler who links the Tower's peoples
What Chants of Sennaar is and who it suits
Chants of Sennaar is a narrative puzzle adventure. You play the Traveler, whose goal is to reunite the Peoples of the Tower, who no longer understand one another. The game is built around language rather than combat or item collecting, so the main obstacle in every area is a conversation you cannot yet follow.
The developer lists it as free to try, with the full game unlocked through a paid purchase. The listing also calls it an award-winning adventure puzzle game. It suits players who like working problems out from scratch and are happy to spend time on a slow, story-led puzzle game.
Deciphering scripts across the levels of the Tower
The Tower is divided into levels, and each one is home to a distinct culture with its own language. Learning one people's glyphs does not carry over to the next, so each level asks you to start the decoding process again. The listing says the game lets you study forgotten glyphs and the grammar behind them.
The puzzles themselves are language-based. You match written symbols to meanings, work out how sentences are put together, and use that to get past each obstacle. The game does not hand over a translation table, so progress depends on what you notice and what you test.
Reasoning out meaning from observation and sound
The listing names three skills the game leans on: observation, listening and deduction. Observation means reading the environment and the symbols around you for patterns. Listening means picking up on how the inhabitants speak to each other. Deduction is where those pieces are combined into a working guess about a word or phrase.
Because these are the only tools described, the puzzles are built around reasoning rather than reflexes. A conversation you hear in one level may hold the key to a sign in another, so it is useful to keep track of what each people has said.
Art direction and the narrative of the Tower
The developer describes the visual style as Moebius-inspired, with bright, stylised scenes. The art is part of how each level reads as a separate culture, since the look of each area shifts as you move up through the Tower.
The story runs alongside the puzzles. As you decode each people's language, the narrative moves forward and the Peoples are drawn back together. The listing presents this as the core arc of the game.
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About this APK
The build we hold is Chants of Sennaar 1.0.10 (APKS split bundle) for Android 10 and up.
- Version
- 1.0.10
- 52
- Requires Android
- 10+
- Package ID
- com.playdigious.chantsofsennaar
- Format
- APKS split bundle
- Malware scan
- Google Play Protect
- Permissions
- 15 declared
- Signed by
- CN=Android, O=Google Inc.
- Certificate SHA-256
- c8ce07f2b530bc9edda6b0f199b52d731759e927e8ab4ac2485874ce5d949396