Egyptian Senet (Ancient Egypt) APK
Game information
Version 1.4.8 (#1004008)
Updated 2024-06-26
APK Size 123 MB
Requires Android Android 4.4+ (KitKat)
Offered by Ezzat Studios LLC
Category Free Board Game
Game id air.EgyptianSenetFree
Developer's notes Don't Miss The Opportunity To Play The World's Oldest Board Game
Screenshot
Click on the image to see full size
Table of contents
Latest updates
What's new in Egyptian Senet (Ancient Egypt) 1.4.8
Editor's review
Download the latest Egyptian Senet (Ancient Egypt) application, version 1.4.8, compatible with Windows 10/11 (using emulators such as Bluestacks), Android devices. This free Board app is developed by Ezzat Studios LLC and is easy to download and install.
Previous versions, including 1.4.8, are also available. If you need help or have any problems, please let us know.
Description
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.
====== 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.
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 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 Osiris, Sekhmet, and 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 of timothy kendall in his game, 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 3 Truths; square 29 is the House of 2 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.
Recommended for everyone interested in Egyptology, Archeology, and Mummification.
Supported Languages in 2022 - 2023 - 2024 : (English Arabic French Spanish German Italian Dutch Russian Japanese Korean Chinese Portuguese-Brazil).
Game permissions
Egyptian Senet (Ancient Egypt) 1.4.8 APK requires following permissions:
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to access extra location provider commands.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Ratings and Reviews
Rating: 4.5/5 based on 6K+ reviews
(*) is required
3 ★ Nice gameplay. Too many ads. Literally one every move. Deleted.
5 ★ I love this game! There is strategy and luck. I still don't understand all of the rules yet but I it can get intense.
5 ★ Not sure why people are complaining about the ads. Aside from the small ad bar on the bottom right (which is easy to ignore) the only other ad you get is when you finish a game. I'm really enjoying this game. The music is funky, the graphics are good and gameplay is simple and fun! I'm addicted already and I only downloaded this game yesterday.
3 ★ After playing tjis game for over a year it still is an exercise in futility playing against the computer. I like the game Senet and the visuals are very nice. However, the algorhythm must be written in a way it gives the computer an advantage. For example, on your first roll, eight times out of ten it's a 2. Eight times out of ten the computer's roll is two or three doubles. In play the computer will roll six times more doubles than you will roll. Just wish computer rolls were more random.
5 ★ I have been playing Senet for more than two decades. It may seem simple, but it is actually a game of complex strategy. If you think the AI is stacked against you, then you simply don't understand the game. This is the best digital version of Senet I have found. The ads are absurd - I even had to wait through a 30-second ad while writing this review - but Senet is worth it. Try this out, and take time to master the strategy. You will be glad you did.
5 ★ I have played this game since a child both boardwise and on cells from this developer. Awesome game. Even teaches kids about math and strategizing. When playing against the computer I have beaten it most times. I think those who claim you can't just are not good at strategic games. You need luck and strategy to win the game against your opponent!
5 ★ This is a more user friendly version than other Senet game in the Play store. The feel of it plays better. I also have the wooden game of Senet as well that doesnt play by the Thomas Kendal rules (ie it uses 5 die sticks and counts them as 1,2,3,4 and 6) and each player has 5 pieces, not 7. Any chance this one can have different rule variations?
1 ★ I agree with other players. Gameplay is rigged because it deals the dice to make the cpu win. Bad algorithm. It will allow you to win in every 3rd game if you play right though. And for those who don't know how to play Senet, they offer a very vague instruction/guide about how to play the game. It also hangs and stops suddenly, maybe because it's computing the moves so the cpu can win. Not worth the download.
4 ★ Interesting and fun game to play. The sound effects and graphics all add to the overall experience. However the one thing that weakens it a little is the fact that is quite easy to continuously defeat the AI.The current hints and non hints as to which pawns can be played does create a two tier difficulty level of sorts but this is not enough in itself.
1 ★ Computer get easy numbers, we can't pull their pawns to water com pawns escape every time. This is not totally randomized.
5 ★ I LOVE this game! Simple graphics, no bells & whistles to speak of (yay!) and easy to learn. it's also addictive, imho. 👍 Update: had a question after the last update and received a friendly response & resolution to my email, immediately! Awesome customer service. 💕
5 ★ I read a few comments and they were saying how annoying the ads are, but honestly I dont find them annoying! I mean that small bar on the bottom right is not that distracting and when u finish playing u get an ad. Thats totally fine and dont forget the game is for free and these ppl need to make money
4 ★ I adore this game very much. However, you must be prepared to face ads, which are rather annoying, if you play online. Play offline and have fun. Nice graphics, cool music, simple rules.
5 ★ Really fun game and easy to learn but difficult to master, the game looks great too, thinking of upgrading to the ad free version, that's how much I enjoy it and want to support the developer.
5 ★ Good game with atmospheric music and artwork. Passes the time well.
Previous versions
Egyptian Senet (Ancient Egypt) 1.4.8 APK for Windows (#1004008, 123 MB)
Similar to Egyptian Senet (Ancient Egypt)
More from Ezzat Studios LLC
Top download apps
