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Saturnalia

A Single-Player Survival Horror Adventure: play as a cast of characters exploring an isolated village haunted by an ancient ritual—but beware, its labyrinthine roads will change each time you lose all your characters.

All Reviews:

Positive (43) - 88% of the 43 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

Nov 8, 2023

Developer:

Santa Ragione

Publisher:

Santa Ragione

	Interface	Subtitles
English	✔	✔
French	✔	✔
Italian	✔	✔
German	✔	✔
Spanish - Spain	✔	✔
Simplified Chinese	✔	✔

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Includes 6 items: FOTONICA, MirrorMoon EP, Wheels of Aurelia, Saturnalia, Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star, Mediterranea Inferno

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Reviews

“This disquieting, disorienting place leaves us as properly rattled as we've been by a videogame.”
8/10 – Edge Magazine

“A pulse-raising, shiver-making, dark little whisper; a beautiful game.”
Bestest Bests – Rock Paper Shotgun

“Saturnalia mixes mechanics to effectively elevate the entire survival horror genre.”
9/10 – Game Rant

About This Game

A third-person horror adventure where you play as four characters, experiencing an intergenerational storyline tied to the haunting traditions of an ancient village in Sardinia, Italy, a region rich with unique folklore…

The village itself is an elaborate maze with no two iterations being precisely the same—you will have to explore and solve the mysteries of the game largely unguided.

Die, and watch the village reconfigure itself into a new form. Solve puzzles and open shortcuts to new areas with tools and items you find along the way, unlocking every piece of the story with different characters, each with its own power and suited for another aspect of exploration and investigation.

Game Features

The village structure changes each time all your characters die
Discover characters' special abilities, use tools and consumables to open shortcuts
Keep narrative and puzzle progress across game-overs (roguelite)
Manage your supply of matches to help your sight and solve puzzles
Non-linear progression, dynamic and adaptive narrative
Investigate the ritual at the heart of the game and use what you find to stop it
Puzzles deeply integrated with the game world and narrative (not abstract)
Artwork and animations inspired by stop-motion and rotoscoping film techniques

Info

A playthrough takes approximately 10 hours, leading to one of several potential endings.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game features scenes of implied physical violence, domestic abuse, and limited gory imagery (screams, human and animal corpses, blood trails). Throughout the game, character dialogue and clues make references to suicide, substance abuse, sexual violence, racism, homophobia, sexism, and abortion that some may find distressing or disturbing. Player discretion is advised.