In this work, we investigate the high-energy era of the universe from the constant-roll condition perspective by taking the Friedmann equation, which is modified by a non-additive Tsallis entropic proposal. In the framework of the observational data, we determine the constant-roll parameter. Under the fixed field condition of the constant-roll parameter, for the wide range of the power-term of the chaotic potentials, $$\sim \phi ^{n}$$
∼
ϕ
n
, which involves some string-chaotic potential models, $$n=\frac{2}{3}$$
n
=
2
3
, $$n=\frac{4}{5}$$
n
=
4
5
, the non-additive (nonextensive) Tsallis parameter is analyzed graphically. The resulting analysis shows that, in addition to a quasi-de Sitter phase, any value of the range $$0.5<n<1.2$$
0.5
<
n
<
1.2
points to a dynamical form of the dark energy (quintessence) in the early universe. It implies that n values in the range may be included in string-chaotic potential models. The non-additive Tsallis parameter provides this with the help of its negative values in the constant-roll field.