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The Chant
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 players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Realistic depiction of what it's like to be a member of church of scientology. Right of the bat I want to address the stuttering, not sure why it keeps happening every time I launch the game and then after 10 minutes it goes away, no need for any workarounds as other people may…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“I had to put steam in offline mode in order to play the game without stuttering. Not sure why that was a thing, but it was. As an experienced psychonaut, I was intrigued with the psychedelic element, but I wasn't expecting to enjoy the game as much as I did. I sat and played the…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“Look, it was fine. Story was cool, game looks good, combat was creative, and all the characters were distinct and interesting enough in a cult setting. However, the game not only has serious performance issues, manifested in my steam deck as stuttering every two seconds, and…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:11 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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The Chant is now available at 80% off!
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure |
| Player tags | Survival Horror · Psychological Horror · Horror · Action-Adventure · Supernatural · Third Person · Female Protagonist · 3D · Mystery · Atmospheric · Realistic · Drama (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Polish * , Russian * , Spanish - Latin America * , Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 42 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.thechant.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i3-9100F @ 3.60GHz / AMD Ryzen 3 4300G Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti / Radeon RX 580 DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 40 GB available space Additional Notes: SSD recommended