Chenen is a dreamlike traversal RPG where terrains grant skills, merging exploration and tactical combat in a unique tick-based system. A tale of the first people, the lost art of geomancy, and the question: who truly owns the land beneath your feet?
A Traversal RPG about creation, destruction, and the terrain beneath your feet.
Chenen reimagines RPG structure by unifying traversal, tactical combat, and narrative progression into a single cohesive system—one shaped entirely by the land. Inspired by geomancy, every environment is not just a backdrop, but a resource, an obstacle, and a story engine.
Players don’t simply move through the world, they reshape it. Climbing sacred mountains, altering terrain mid-battle, and forging new paths through a living ecosystem turns every step into strategic evolution.
Each terrain type unlocks unique combat abilities, encouraging players to engage with their surroundings not only for exploration, but for tactical advantage. The ground beneath you defines your skills, soil, slope, and weather become as important as weapons or stats.
Progression is tied to exploration. Characters grow by mastering landscapes, unlocking passive and active abilities based on how and where they travel. The terrain becomes a skill tree. The world, a reflection of your journey.
With a distinctive identity and scalable systems, Chenen offers a fresh approach to open-spaces design, blending player agency and cinematic storytelling into a unified experience.
Chenen is a traversal RPG about land and mountains, where terrains themselves grant skills. Players progress by walking, mastering terrain, temperature, trekking, and survival — while tactical, positional combat and exploration are unified through the same tick-based system. It is a surreal tale of the first travelers and the lost art of geomancy, and an anthropological reflection on colonization, land, and forgotten cultures.
Critics - 8.5 / Users reviews 8.3
Steam - Reviews - 8.2
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