You are an android. Almost a thousand years of age, you’ve seen more wars and fought more battles than any human ever could.
Saturnine: choice-driven sci-fi novel in the Solar System
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- 700,000 words of text with hundreds of choices
- Your choices decide how the story unfolds
- Play an android who has lived almost a thousand years
- Set in the Solar System in the year 990 AC
- Battle an ancient monster and hunt rogue AI on the moons
- Rated Mature 17+ by the store
A text-based interactive novel for readers
Saturnine is an interactive novel by Jon Matthieu, listed under Games. Nearly all of it is written text, about 700,000 words, and you move through it by picking from hundreds of choices. The developer says the story is meant to be filled in by your own imagination.
It suits people who want to read a long branching story and make the decisions themselves. The store rates it Mature 17+.
How choices change the story
Each choice you make decides what happens next, so the plot follows the path you take through the text. With hundreds of choices spread across the novel, the same story can play out in quite different ways. The developer describes the choices as the main control you have over events.
The Solar System in the year 990 AC
The story takes place in 990 AC. Earth has been lost to something called the Calamity, and the stars are out of reach, so humanity survives only within the Solar System. Artificial intelligence, once used to reshape space, is now feared, and AI is hunted on the moons of every planet.
The setting is a collapsed, hostile future where the sentient machines that once tried to destroy humanity are still a threat.
Playing an aging android fighting to survive
You play an android close to a thousand years old who has fought in more wars and battles than any human. Your experience is needed for a fight against an ancient monster, and the goal is to protect the Solar System or whatever else you value. You are one of the last of your kind, and the story is built around whether you can keep going.