SATURNALIA
A Sardinian survival horror to lose yourself in
Developer-Santa Ragione
Publisher-The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
Format-PC
Origin-Italy
Release-2021
Night has fallen on the remote Sardinian village of Gravoi, and the streets have emptied. Everyone’s at home, safely behind locked doors upon which eye-shaped sigils have been scrawled. Our last match is burning down to our fingers, providing just enough light to confirm that, yes, there’s someone out there in the creeping fog. Someone with headlamps for eyes and – are those horns protruding from the top of their head? We’re not especially keen to find out.
Perhaps familiarity will dull our terror at Saturnalia’s street-stalking presence in time, but for now the sight of it gives us enough of a jolt to make us forget what we’re doing and flee desperately for the nearest hiding spot. Which only serves to drive us deeper into Gravoi’s labyrinth and, more often than not, straight into a dead end.