Sentient

Sentient

Released1997
Sentient is a first-person adventure developed by Psygnosis and released on the PlayStation in 1997. It was also released for the PC the same year. Sentient's main feature is the artificial intelligence controlling multiple individual crew members aboard the station, each with their own assignments and behaviors. You interact with the AI characters through an elaborate parser interface, which allows you to ask them everything from the location of a vital piece of equipment, to their opinion of another member of the crew. To succeed, you must take advantage of the crew's help through this social system. Through interaction with more than 60 characters and exploration of 200 real-time rendered locations you need to try and save the ship, and yourself. The game automatically randomizes sub-plots so that it will be different every time you play.

Details

DeveloperPsygnosis
ReleasedApril 10, 1997
StatusReleased
GenresPoint-and-clickAdventure
ThemesScience fictionMysterySurvival
PlatformsPC (Microsoft Windows) PC (Microsoft Windows)PlayStation PlayStationDOS DOS
ModesSingle player

About This Game

A radiation outbreak on the space station Icarus is already a crisis when you arrive to investigate — but it turns out to be the least of your problems. The captain is dead. A senior Senator aboard is being stalked by an assassin. And the station itself is on a collision course with the sun. Every decision on Icarus carries a price: do you prioritize your own survival, or burn everything trying to save the ship?