Saturnaliaisn’t a terribly long game, but it has spent much longer occupying my thoughts.

I mostly elected to go solo, because I am a ratfuck coward.

Each, too, has their own personal goal that it would be nice to achieve before they leave.

Anita, one of the player characters in Saturnalia, standing between open church doors, and lit in a strange, yellowish light. The RPS Bestest Best review sticker is superimposed in the top right corner

Anita is having an affair with a local, and would likehorrible revenge?to square that triangle.

Paul was adopted out of town as a child and wants to find out about his birth parents.

Every foray into Gravoi became an exercise in psyching myself up, and a weighing of cost vs. benefit.

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Quite often, because I would panic, I got backed into a dead end and was caught.

Saturnalia has a literal monster, but the metaphorical one is the town.

Saturnalia is absolutely beautiful to look at.

Some hanging masks, each designed with a cloth over their eyes, suspended from an overpass in Saturnalia

you’re gonna wanna find tools to open up some areas, mini-puzzles in themselves.

The writing succeeds in making it all strangely poignant; you get the sense that many locals are trapped.

It’s not a nice place to visit, and you wouldn’t want to live there either.

Anita stands in the entrance of the Gravoi mine in Saturnalia

That’s an experience you want to have.

It’s a pulse-raising, shiver-making, dark little whisper; a beautiful game.

The map of Gravoi in Saturnalia

The web of clues and objectives in Saturnalia

Tecla, an old woman from Gravoi in Saturnalia, lit in pinkish-purple. She is lamenting that she helped bury the town’s secrets