What does it mean to become an agent of authority? Master the art of beheading, become an agent of authority, and enact a divine drama of justice, death, and redemption.
## About This Game
How would you respond if you were asked to carry out an order you disagreed
with?
Sentenced is a narrative Virtual Reality game where the player is cast as the
Executioner for Ulrichshafen, a fictional European city in the early-modern
period. On behalf of your Lords, you will punish those who break the laws of
the realm, and be assessed on the competence of your performance over multiple
scenarios.
Sentenced is a game about personal conscience and obedience to authority. It’s
about obligation, institutionalized violence, and the power structures that
dictate the behavior of individuals within a system.
Master the art of beheading, become an agent of authority, and enact a divine
drama of justice, death, and redemption.
## Virtual Reality
Sentenced was designed for Virtual Reality. This technology provides a
previously unknown sense of physicality and empathetic responses to in-game
characters. In a traditional video game, an act of violence is reduced to a
button press, and enemies are often dehumanized. This will not be the case in
Sentenced.
## Narrative
A crowd gathers, eagerly awaiting the grizzly spectacle of public execution.
The town Beadle announces the crimes and sentence of the poor sinner, allowing
them to say a few final words. Do they ask for divine forgiveness, or are they
unrepentant? It then falls to the player, the executioner, to perform the
bloody climax in this drama of sin and redemption.
## Mature Content Description
The developers describe the content like this:
This game contains graphic violence, as events depicted in this game are
based on real historical law & punishment in 16th Century Europe. As such, it
also contains verbal descriptions of crimes which some may find disturbing or
anxiety-provoking.
Virtual reality (VR) is an immersive experience that can be intense. Certain
risks may include, but are not limited to, injury resulting from malfunction
of the equipment, motion sickness, nausea, dizziness, seizures,
disorientation, loss of balance, tripping, falling, and post-traumatic stress
disorder responses. VR is a new technology and there may be additional unknown
and nonobvious risk associated with VR technology. Participation is at your
own risk.
Minimum System Requirements | ||
CPU | Intel Core i5 or higher | |
RAM | 8 GB RAM | |
OS | Windows 10 | |
Graphics Card | GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290 or Higher | |
HDD Space | 1 GB available space |