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The Great Sassanelli is an interactive novel about leading a travelling circus through Europe during the First World War. You play as Johan, a young, inexperienced ringmaster, guiding Madame Gloria’s Circo Sarabanda through war-ravaged lands. You stage performances to earn money, manage the troupe and its supplies, and protect its members as you search for Cuculia, the mythical Kingdom of Birds.

The circus on the road

Travel between towns and across borders, visiting dozens of locations and encountering people in towns and on the road. Performances give shaken audiences a chance to gather, while helping keep the circus afloat. The story’s light economic simulation ties your choices to the troupe’s money, fame, employees and morale, and you must keep moving to find new audiences.

Your crew includes a colourful cast of members and recruitable Gifted Performers. Each recruit has personal goals, interests, sympathies and aversions, as well as a special act, a storyline and gameplay perks. The characters’ stories range from light-hearted to tragic, sometimes combining both.

Stories and choices

The hand-crafted main story is novel-length, with extensive dialogue and individual storylines for the crew and performers. Hundreds of choices let you shape the pace and direction of events, roleplay and make decisions that can be morally complex.

The mystery of Cuculia

Cuculia is said to be a safe haven for travelling people, outcasts and circus folk, but stories place it in many locations—or nowhere at all. To uncover its true nature, you solve a series of puzzles involving real-world poetry, deduction and timing, leading toward the Grand Finale.

Art and setting

The game’s painterly art style draws on prominent art movements of the early 1900s. Its world blends the strange and the magical with a Europe devastated by war.