5/7/2023 0 Comments Saturnalia 2021![]() ![]() Once open you MUST forward Saturnalia to 15 friends, because it is FREE on the Epic Game Store for its first week. Your little Scooby Gang have different abilities: Anita has a map of the mines, and can memorise the route to any location in Gravoi that you've found Paul has a flash camera Claudia can squeeze through small gaps Sergio has a satellite phone to call for help almost anywhere (a real coup in 1989). I mostly elected to go solo, because I am a ratfuck coward. ![]() You control each of the four in a collaborative effort to get the hell out of dodge, and can choose to travel alone or in a small group - but more people make more noise to alert the aforementioned rattling creature. Unfortunately, four very unwary outsiders - rendered outsiders for a variety of reasons, whether they're locals or not - find themselves having to survive the night of this festival, armed with things like matches, firecrackers and a polaroid camera. Gravoi itself is a small but inconveniently maze-like fictional Sardinian town, host to a yearly folk festival that, every so often, involves the unwary being carried off and killed by a. In fact it was not stillness, but the panic-sprint into darkness that became my main and oft-unsuccessful tactic whenever I heard the creature of Gravoi. On at least one occasion I lay in bed at 3am, sweaty and frozen in half-asleep fear, because I thought I'd heard a strange rattling noise. Any time in the past couple of weeks that my friends and colleagues thought they were talking to me, they were in fact talking to an exquisite Italian neon-folk horror game wearing my skin and looking out of the eye-holes in my skull. Saturnalia isn't a terribly long game, but it has spent much longer occupying my thoughts. Saturnalia is a pulse-raising, shiver-making, dark little whisper a beautiful horror game, and you won't have played anything like it before ![]()
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