Saturnalia
Saturnalia
Description (IGDB)
Saturnalia is a survival-horror adventure inspired and heavily influenced by the folklore of Sardinia, Italy, a region rich with unique traditions and culture. You play as four characters, experiencing a deeply connected storyline that ties back to the haunting traditions of this ancient village. 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 suited for another aspect of exploration and investigation. With a limited supply of matches to light your way and darkness encroaching, can you find your way through the fog to reveal the truth? Or will you be engulfed by the secrets this town doesn’t want you to know?
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Description Steam (Français)
Le village est un labyrinthe complexe qui change à chaque partie : vous devrez explorer et résoudre les mystères du jeu sans presque aucune aide.
Votre arme ? Une boîte d'allumettes...
Mourrez et regardez le village prendre une nouvelle forme. Résolvez des énigmes et ouvrez des raccourcis vers de nouvelles zones grâce à des outils et des objets trouvés en chemin. Découvrez l'histoire petit à petit en utilisant les compétences des différents personnages, tous adaptés à un aspect spécifique de l'exploration et de l'enquête.Entre la quantité limitée d'allumettes pour vous éclairer et l'obscurité étouffante, parviendrez-vous à traverser le brouillard et dévoiler la vérité ? Ou bien serez-vous submergé par les secrets que ce village refuse de vous livrer ?
Caractéristiques du jeu
- La structure du village change à chaque fois que tous vos personnages meurent.
- Découvrez les compétences spéciales des personnages, utilisez des outils et des consommables pour ouvrir des raccourcis.
- Conservez votre progression au fil des jeux que vous perdez (rogue-lite).
- Gérez vos allumettes pour mieux explorer et résoudre les énigmes.
- Progression non linéaire, récit dynamique et adaptatif.
- Découvrez le rituel au cœur du jeu et utilisez ce que vous trouvez pour l'arrêter.
- Les énigmes sont pleinement intégrées dans l'univers et le récit du jeu (non abstraites).
- Dessins et animations inspirés des techniques cinématographiques d'arrêt sur image et de rotoscopie.
Éditions et prix Steam
DLCs disponibles (1)
Avis des joueurs Steam
J’ai eu beaucoup de mal à mettre un avis négatif sur ce jeu, parce que j’aime profondément le principe même des petits studios indépendants qui mettent tout leur cœur dans des jeux de niche. Mais là, je préfère prévenir les joueurs et joueuses qui ne...
Mises à jour et Actualités
NEW PRICING
Dear community, As is our tradition, one year after the game's release, we're scheduling an increase to the base game's price. Once the current sale (Lovecraftian Days) ends, the new price will go into effect. If you'd like—and are able—to support us at the new price, we'd greatly appreciate it. Otherwise, please consider wishlisting the game and keep an eye out for our frequent sales! Thank you for your continued support!
Saturnalia making-of talk now available, plus LudoNarraCon participation!
Hello everyone! We did a presentation at the recent Game Developers Conference covering the design (and planning) aspect of Saturnalia's development. You can watch it for free here: Saturnalia Postmortem Presentation It was a difficult journey, as you'll learn, but we are very proud of the game and happy that me managed to share it with you. We also wanted to share that we are currently on sale as part of the LudoNarraCon happening right now on Steam, check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/ludonarracon There are panels, new demos, and lots of great narrative games on sale. That's all for now, thank you as always for your support! Everybody take care, Pietro and the team at SR
Saturnalia is now available in Simplified Chinese!
《Saturnalia》的简体中文版本现已上架！十分感谢Albert Chen担当译者。 Hello everyone! We're happy to announce that Saturnalia is now playable in an additional language – Simplified Chinese. The translation has been executed with love and dedication to be as close as possible to the original material. The translator is Albert "Windyshine" Chen, who also translated our other games Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star and Mediterranea Inferno, Everybody take care, Pietro and the team at SR
Avis des critiques et joueurs
Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« Saturnalia should be on any horror fan’s radar this year. A twisted story combined with a superb art style, nerve-shredding gameplay and expertly crafted design will have you praising and cursing the creative genius to put roguelike mechanics into a horror game. This Italian town has a horrific history you’ll both love and hate to venture into, but you’ll be compelled to uncover it nonetheless. »
« Overall Saturnalia works and manages to excite until the end, thanks above all to its open structure, which makes the story replayable several times without ever appearing heavy or too repetitive. »
« Saturnalia is an atypical horror game, but engaging and extremely funny. Solid gameplay is accompanied by a great art direction. »
« Saturnalia is hard to call a must-play horror game, as it's likely to be polarizing both in terms of its presentation and its mechanics. A slower pace, somewhat minimalist gameplay, and mystery-laden narrative style will keep it from being everyone's cup of tea. Yet fans of exploration looking for a beautiful, atmospheric mystery (with just a handful of things that lurk in the dark) will find that Saturnalia is a wholly unique adventure that's well worth taking. »
« Saturnalia is a smart survival horror title that offers plenty of freedom despite its claustrophobic and anxiety-inducing encounters. »
« Each of the game’s characters come with an interesting, yet heavy backstory attached that’ll pique your curiosity and inspire you to dig deeper. At times, the narrative can get lost in the chaos of trying not to get all four characters killed, but when it’s present, such as in items and clues, it’s gripping and will haunt you long after you’ve beaten the game. »
« This disquieting, disorienting place leaves us as properly rattled as we've been by a videogame since Immortality. [Issue#378, p.114] »
« Saturnalia is one of the best and most unique horror games of 2022 that not a single horror fan should miss. »
Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« Horror game with interesting style and idea, but for horror it's not scary and more like puzzle game that is based on walking from location to location in small town that changes routes when you loose (all your characters die), weird movement and unclear idea of switching between characters, it felt like I could play with just one and it did't make any difference which is it, so the idea of many characters felt like they are the health bar basically, maybe it makes sense later in the game but I did't went that far. »
« I did not play this at launch. I picked it up at the beginning of 2024. So, any issues that were in the game originally, I have no experience with. I also bought this on all major platforms but my gameplay experience is strictly on consoles. This game took me by complete surprise. I bought it when it was on sale not thinking much of it at all. Once I started playing it, I was hooked. It has been a very long time since I felt my hair standing up while playing. This game does the sound of the enemies extremely well. Just hearing the creature by me is enough to make me super tense.This game is fully customizable. You can tweak almost everything about the game to give yourself the ideal experience. The layout of the village is unique each time you play it, so you can a different experience each time you play. With all the clues there are to collect in this game, you'll find yourself lost in this game for hours as you unlock the mystery in the town. »
« Atmospheric, tension-filled, graphically pleasing. I couldn't stop thinking about this game even when I wasn't playing it; the many mysteries of the village were with me for a while. The controls took some getting used to, but well worth it. I expect to revisit Saturnalia next winter solstice (but on a more forgiving difficulty level). Recommended. »
« Pretty fun game overall. The artstyle, atmosphere, and soundtrack are all great. The gameplay mechanics are generally well-designed, and the story/mystery had some interesting stuff going on. Though, I did encounter a couple of problems. For one, the controls and camera can be somewhat janky. Second, there were a few bugs. For instance, one character (Gabriele) got stuck a couple of times. There were also a few moments when I couldn't tell if the gameplay systems were buggy, or if they were just designed to be unpredictable and confusing... maybe both. Still, I had a good time. »
« Unique setting, great soundtrack, unusual graphic design, interesting mechanics, fun gameplay - all in one game. I'm not gonna lie and say that everything's perfect - it's not, but it's close, with the only real issue being the controls. These could definitely use some optimization. However, that said, it did not stop me from spending over 40 hours with the game so far and I can only recommend it. »
« ======= only worth 5 dollar ======= -very repetitive stealth running like brick simulator, maze lvl design, not scary and game very dark cant see will. -only good atmosphere, music and u can customize difficulty. »
« Runs like **** on a mid-range GPU. No reason for this, graphics are ordinary. I get it: it's not an action game, but how can I appreciate a game when going around is not fun? »
« The way the city of Gravoi itself grows on you becoming the ultimate antagonist of the game will leave you haunted for quite some time after looking and the end credits. The look and the soundtrack of the game are outstanding, and you will be surprised more and more of the many gameplay novelties the game offers. »
