Chinatris
Worth it · Short indie · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4600, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Chinatris is a Tetris-like game about Chinese characters where different charactersfall to create new ones. To win, you must create the target characters from each stage. You’ll be having fun while learning Chinese!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
April 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $0.59. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 42 in the 7 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is cheaper than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cyber Manhunt ($9.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Wordle ($30.62, scores 30).
This site sampled 403 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 579 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 58 percent of everything written about it.
2 hours to finish it, 7 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
99% start to 11% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Chinese character strokes in Squares, Tetris. Smooth and Simple play. Grind of speed, rng and luck, other than specific arrangements for some harder characters. Some Educational values. Low priced, worth the time and effort refreshing some of my Chinese after several decades from school.
Chinatris, developed by 仓鼠动力 and Args Studio and published by Gamirror Games, is a fascinating experiment that merges traditional Chinese linguistics with the universal appeal of puzzle gaming. At first glance, it seems like a simple twist on the falling-block formula pioneered by Tetris, but a few minutes of play reveal something entirely different. Instead of geometric blocks, the player is tasked with...
This is a super underrated game, I'm a fan of 2048 and I'm a fan of the Chinese language. This feels just as satisfying as 2048 but instead of just merging numbers your merging different strokes and Chinese characters. It tells you the definition of that character once you finish merging it. This game has a good amount of content. It's a hard game but not a super hard one, it takes me 5-10 times to clear a level.
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Cite this score
Chinatris scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1139800/chinatrisReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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