The Chant
Skip · Action · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 6.5h
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti / Radeon RX 580, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
A single-player, third person horror action-adventure game set on a remote spiritual island retreat. To survive you must craft, fight, and escape the psychedelic horrors set loose when a spiritual ritual goes wrong and awakens a dimension of cosmic terror.
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
September 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 39 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 43 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fear the Spotlight ($13.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Through the Woods ($19.99, scores 20).
Steam's global achievement data puts 65 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 3 of the 519 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 141 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
79% start to 65% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 22:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Fruit and nut version of Resident Evil. They are: powerful, hideous monsters You are: a hippy holding incense FIGHT! Intro was stuttery as all get out, gameplay after that was not. I blocked the internet attempts at the firewall FWIW.
I really wanted to like this game but the combat system is honestly terrible and healing items are ridiculously hard to come by
its not a bad game. combat isn't anything to write home about and neither is the story but on sale its not a bad game to pick up.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Chant scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1577250/the-chantReviews 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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