Gareth writes: "Saturnalia is a truly original survival horror game; almost an arthouse game in which the narrative and characters are brilliant"
"Saturnalia comes from the creative minds at Santa Ragione. It is inspired and influenced by the folklore of Sardinia, Italy. This survivor-horror adventure may have you lost in its labyrinth of a village, the structure which changes every time all your characters die." Iain @ Thumb Culture
From Eurogamer: "The game's puzzles are appropriate to the village setting and sit harmoniously with the various interweaving stories being told. You won't have to retrieve, say, a giant jewel from a pond and press it into a statue to unlock a door; rather, the game's essential tools - a hammer, a pair of bolt-cutters, a soldering iron, a drywall spatula - are pleasingly mundane and root the game firmly in reality. Smash this window. Sever that chain. Without this grounding practicality, the game's more ambitious themes, which touch on racism and homophobia, might have felt tokenistic or inappropriately paired. Instead, Saturnalia successfully establishes a relationship between its physical and spiritual horrors, which together pull the player into its unpleasant reality. Saturnalia is a horrible little video game, but horrible in precisely all the ways its makers intended."
Starting today, Saturnalia and Warhammer 40000: Mechanicus are free at Epic Games Store. The free game offers run until November 3 at 11 AM Eastern. Once you claim them, they're yours to keep.
