Saturnalia

Saturnalia is a third-person horror adventure set in an ancient village in Sardinia, Italy. You play as four characters in an intergenerational story tied to the village’s haunting traditions, exploring its maze-like streets and investigating the ritual at the heart of the game to find a way to stop it.

Explore the village

The village has no fixed layout: whenever all your characters die, it reconfigures into a new form. You explore largely unguided, solving puzzles and finding tools and items that open shortcuts to new areas. Each character has a special ability suited to a different aspect of exploration and investigation. Narrative and puzzle progress carry over between game-overs, and the story unfolds through non-linear progression and a dynamic, adaptive narrative.

Investigate and survive

You manage your supply of matches, which help you see and solve puzzles. Puzzles are integrated into the game world and narrative rather than presented as abstract challenges. Artwork and animation draw on stop-motion and rotoscoping film techniques.

Story and endings

A playthrough takes approximately 10 hours and leads to one of several potential endings. You uncover the story through different characters and use what you discover to investigate and stop the ritual.