Egyptian Senet
Ezzat Studios · 2015 · Board Game, Historical, Tabletop, Mythology, Strategy
PC
Very Positive81% · 197
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About Egyptian Senet
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** New Important Note:
To make the gameplay easier and more fun, you can press spacebar to throw the casting sticks instead of mouse click.
====== Awards ======
◆ 1st Winner Of Egypt e-Content Award 2013.
◆ Silver Winner in 2013 W3 Awards.
◆ 3rd Winner Of Gaming Egypt Contest 2012 organized by iTi.
◆ Nominated for the World Summit Award 2013 in e-Entertainment & Games from Egypt.
◆ Nominated for Top 20 Mobile Apps in Mobily KSA Developers Award 2014.
Egyptian Senet (Ancient Egypt Game).
The Mysterious Afterlife Journey And The Favorite Pastime Of The Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
The Artifact Of The World's Oldest Board Game Found In King Tut's Tomb, Beside The Golden Coffin & Sarcophagus.
After performing opening of the mouth ceremony on your mummy by Anubis, you start your afterlife journey protected by Eye of Horus(Wadjet) to pass through the underworld realm of Osiris, challenging an invisible adversary inside an Egyptian hidden tomb in The Valley of the Queens located near the better known Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile river across from Thebes (Luxor).
Senet is a board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt, it is the earliest known record of a backgammon , checkers, draughts, ludo and chess like games.
The oldest hieroglyph representing a Senet game dates to around 3500 BC.The full name of the game in Egyptian was meaning "The game of passing".
Games have been around for thousands of years, but none are older than the ancient game of Senet, invented by the Egyptians roughly 3500 or 5000 years ago. It is believed that this two-player board game originated as a popular form of recreation with both royalty and peasantry. But by the mid-13th century BC, Senet had evolved into a more religious ritual. Some depictions from this time period forward show the game being played not by two people, but rather as a deceased player competing against an invisible adversary, interpreted by some to symbolize the deceased players own soul.
The board has become a metaphor for the afterlife with pawns moving across the board just as a soul moves through layers of the netherworld after death. Reaching the final space and leaving the board is the goal of the game, just as reaching Horus and leaving the netherworld was the goal for the Egyptians after their death for attaining rebirth with the gods Isis & Osiris, Sekhmet & Bastet holding the Egyptian Ankh or the papyrus scepter.
The game board consists of 30 squares or slots, arranged in 3 horizontal rows of 10. Pawns move from left to right through row 1, then drop down and move from right to left through row 2. Dropping down again, pawns move from left to right along row 3 and finally, off the board. The game uses the rules developed by Timothy Kendall in his 1978 work, Passing Through the Netherworld :The Meaning and Play of Senet, an Ancient Egyptian Funerary Game.
The game includes five special squares, governed by their own rules, each containing a hieroglyphic. Square 15 is the House of Rebirth; square 26 is the House of Beauty; square 27 is the House of Water: square 28 is the House of the Three Truths; square 29 is the House of Two Truths; and square 30, the last, is the House of Horus, the Egyptian falcon-god and lord of the sky.
Egyptian Senet is a pharaonic challenging game that combines luck,strategy,and magic features authentic photos of ancient Egyptian temples,plus artistically crafted graphics and animation of an ancient stone game board and pieces,set in an echoing,tomb-like chamber.Ritualistic music plus sound effects of stone pieces moving recreate the atmosphere of predynastic Egypt.The App's Icon shows the Egyptian Queen Nefertari playing Senet in her tomb,she was the great wife of the pharaoh Ramesses II(Ramses)Rio. Also many Egyptian Queens have a similar photos playing Senet such as Cleopatra,Nefertiti the great royal wife of Akhenaten,and the Queen Hatshepsut the wife of Thutmose II.
Supported Languages in year 2017 - 2018 - 2019 -2020 : (English, Arabic, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese-Brazil)
Suitable for everyone Adults and Kids.
Perfect relaxing and time killer (timekiller) game with good prices for all countries.
Used for Meditation, Relaxation, Calming and Detachment.
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✦ AI summary
Players appreciate Senet as a respectful, educational recreation of an ancient board game that works well for casual multiplayer sessions with friends, but many are frustrated by what they perceive as unfair AI cheating through manipulated dice rolls, with some finding the gameplay mechanics confusing or not comparable to similar games like backgammon. The game's cultural authenticity and relaxed atmosphere are highlights, though concerns about algorithmic fairness and value for money deter some players from recommending it.
Ancient Egyptian history is basically a saga where god-obsessed pharaohs built giant tomb flexes (hi pyramids), worshipped a chaotic squad of deities like Ra and Osiris, and spent thousands of years trying to outsmart death only to get looted anyway.1 found this helpful
How could an Egyptophile like me possibly turn down the chance to play the game of the pharaohs??? :) This game is almost 5,000 years old (keep in mind we don't know the rules of the game as it was originally played, so modern rules have been created.) But still, it's a little thrill for me to play it. I wish i could play it with someone in person but this isn't exactly a common game.. I've been looking at buying the physical game but costs run from c $40-200 ... not cheap. The app has rather low quality graphics and it lacks much challenge (I've won every game but one) but I still will play it just because it puts my mind back to that time in history and it's the least expensive way I can play the game... It's SUPER CHEAP right now on Steam, buy it! :)
AI has 3 levels of difficulty, 1 player and local 2 players. Game kept running even after closed the game window, cannot stopped unless you force quit Steam. - no updates since 2015 - no trading cards - no achievements - no point shop items There is another Senet game on Steam, 2025 Senet: Households, free to play, has multiplayer, can customize rules, better intro, etc. I'm still happy that I bought this game, probably because of its simplicity, easy to play whenever I want to. p.s. beat the most difficult level within 2 hrs >_<
Egyptian Senet is a thoughtful and respectful digital interpretation of one of humanity’s oldest known board games, developed by Ezzat Studios and published by EngagingX. Rather than modernizing the experience with excessive mechanics or flashy reinterpretations, the game commits to presenting Senet as both a playable strategy title and a cultural artifact. From the moment a match begins, it becomes clear that the developers approached the project with an educational mindset, aiming to recreate not just the rules of the game, but the atmosphere and symbolic meaning that Senet held in ancient Egyptian society. At its core, the gameplay follows the traditional structure associated with Senet: a board of thirty squares arranged in three rows, where players race their pieces across a prescribed path. Movement is determined through the casting of sticks, echoing the historical methods believed to have been used thousands of years ago. This creates a balance between chance and strategy, as players must react to unpredictable outcomes while still making meaningful decisions about which pieces to advance and when. The result is a game that feels deceptively simple, yet capable of producin…
Unfortunately, I know a dice-roll cheat when I see one. The game is good to play against others, but unfortunately, roll-fixing is the way the algorithm actually cheats and wins most games, in one of the them I actually won a bet with a person next to me by stating the next 4 rolls of the AI. They were exactly that. in another, 4 times roll double 1 hit on house of beauty and house of water. Come on devs are you so butthurt a player wins against your game you have to fix the rolls? Pathetic. Will keep the game in the free version of SENET: HOUSEHOLDS instead of this because I am collecting ancient board games. Don't buy this there are better versions as the one I mentioned.
Genuinely one of the best games to play with friends! Get a cup of tea (with vodka in it) and relax with some Senet! :D
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