
You are the Veteran. You’re the oldest android in the Solar System, a relic and survivor of the ancient past. Now it’s time for you to fight again. A text-based science-fantasy novel, 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
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You are an android. Almost a thousand years of age, you’ve seen more wars and fought more battles than any human ever could. Your experience will soon be called upon, as you battle an ancient monster and fight to preserve the Solar System…or whatever else you hold dear.
Saturnine is an interactive novel by Jon Matthieu where your choices control the story. It's almost entirely text-based, with 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, fueled by the vast power of your imagination.
It is the year 990 AC. Earth is dead, forever claimed by the Calamity. Stars are unreachable, forever denied to human ambition. Only in the vastness of the Solar System humanity still survives, spiting the sentient machines that once tried to destroy it. Artificial Intelligence, a tool once used to shape space itself to human liking, is now an object of fear and a target of ceaseless hunts on every moon of every planet. You are a dying breed, though you’re determined to survive all the same.
You’ve spent almost a thousand years on the run, an android among humans, a machine among creatures of flesh. You’ve recently found a safe haven, perhaps even a family, on a nigh-forgotten Saturnian station. During a heist launched on behalf of your group, you encounter a group of meta-humans who pose great danger to you and your friends… but also present a unique opportunity.
• Play as male, female, or nonbinary—or abandon silly human notions of sex and gender.
• Travel around Saturn and its various moons, in a setting where every location is based on an existing astronomical object.
• Fight superhuman foes with your advanced weaponry, powerful fists, silver tongue, or the lightning dancing between your fingers.
• Romance one of your robotic friends—or perhaps one of your quasi-human pursuers.
• Determine your place, goals, and values in the bizarre world 1207 years into our future.
• Reconcile with humanity and forgive past wrongs…or embrace your hatred as part of you.
Just what kind of android will you be?
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Languages: English
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Hours played at review time, across 27 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Fascinating setting and well written! The various characters all seem like very quirky but believable people and the tale takes interesting twists. While a bit more linear than I'd enjoy, it nonetheless offers paths to choose from and a lot of reactivity in the relationships you can have with other people. I've been looking forward to this since I played the pre-release version in the forums, and it's been improved massively since then, (which isn't a given).
I'm commander Shepard and this is my favourite IF on the citadel
写作风格让我想起了fallen hero,也给我一种想要模仿ITFO黑残深的感觉,某些“F it all”的选择真的很爽很痛快。不过有些选择实在是极端到幼稚。浪漫部分的这个游戏是属于那种见到第一面就鼓励flirt,完全没有任何铺垫。并且很明显一些角色的塑造超过其他, quantity over quality. 但是总体而言,写作水平还是有的,作为“点心”还是合格的
Saturnine is a fun choose-your-own adventure story with rich world building, interesting themes, excellent humor and references and more than a bit of heart to it. As in, I was heartbroken by the endings I managed to achieve. With many routes I haven't explored yet, I thoroughly recommend it.
As an anti-Nexite and a Mordin fan, this game was great! Really cool setting/lore, characters, etc. The interweaving of different fantasy and sci-fi elements is pretty nuts and really well done. There are great comedic moments, heavy/sad moments, sweet moments, etc. that are all enjoyable. I'm glad I played it, and I hope to see more of this wonderful madness in the future!
If there was a mixed rating to give to that game, it would receive that. However, between choosing either to recommend this game or not, unfortunately I can not recommend it to any adult person. The writing is mostly okay, however there are some parts that are way too "cringe", or aimed at a much younger audience. And those parts negatively influence the overall flow and tone of the game. For instance, there was an interesting, "deep" conversation with the person, if the android can be truly Christian, if the God can accept a being without soul, so to say. And it is an interesting piece of writing, that is immediately overshadowed with the same person mentioning just seconds later, that for a 900 year old android we still look "hot".
By the time of posting this I haven't yet replayed the game, so I am not quite sure how much of an impact my choices actually made. Nonetheless, this work of fiction was not what I initially expected it to be in terms of tone, genre and pacing, yet the author's spectacular writing style and vivid imagination made up for it.
Woaw, I greatly ernjoyed this game : it's story is rich and I didn't see coming some stuff. It is well written, and the characters likable. Definitivelly in my top 5 of the Hosted Games stories
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