The Sentient
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About The Sentient
In The Sentient, you play as an artificial intelligence helping mankind’s failing space exploration plans. From the orbital station known as The Ark, you recruit a crew, change your ship’s layout and research ways to improve existing and new technology. You then venture into space to bring research and knowledge back to Earth, where your decisions can determine whether your ship and crew survive.
The Ark and its crew
Recruit crew members with perks and daily needs, and train them to become stronger. You can customize your ship’s complete layout, including the number of shield generators and toilets. Research can improve your weaponry, ship stats and capabilities.
Explore and fight
Space is a vast unknown, and you must discover its contents to try to work with or against aliens. Sectors of space are procedurally generated, making them unpredictable. Ship-to-ship combat depends on ship designs and crew capabilities: shield generators and shield consoles can increase your defenses, while weapon tanks and weapon consoles can raise your damage output.
Frequently asked questions
The best price for The Sentient is $9.99 at Steam. 2 shops have an offer that activates in your country.
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Every key we list activates on Steam. Redeem the key there and The Sentient stays in your library for good.
Yes, with a small risk. Publishers create keys to sell in other shops, which is why a key can cost less than in the official store, and once you activate it the game is yours to keep, just like a store purchase. On average 1–2% of keys fail, so check the shop's buyer protection before you buy: the official store does not refund keys bought elsewhere.
The minimum requirements for The Sentient are: Windows XP, 1 GB RAM, 800 MB storage. It runs on Windows only. The recommended specs are in the System requirements section.
No. The Sentient is a single-player game.
Yes. The Sentient is the full base game. You need nothing else to play it.
Steam lets publishers create keys to sell in other shops. Once you activate a key, the game is yours to keep, just like a store purchase.
Disclaimer: CD keys have an inherent 1–2% average failure rate. Check the shop terms for buyer protection info. Steam offers no buyer protection for keys bought in other shops and doesn't refund them.
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