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The Saragossa Manuscript

A 1st impressions roguelite, with real spanish rogues! Wander into Adventure. Solve matters of Honor. Romance remarkable people. Outwit pushy specters. Adapt your 3 heroes' character traits to win over both friends and enemies, weaving together a tale of passion, swash and demonic influences.

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Igor Hardy, Bit Golem
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Igor Hardy
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About the Game

Challenge strangers. Romance mysterious women. Disappoint parents. Die happy.


The Saragossa Manuscript spins an epic tale of love, duels and demonic influences,
reactively weaving stories around encountered NPCs and the heroes' fateful choices,
providing an RPG where the demands of honor, passion and family are at the forefront.

Once Upon a Time in Spain....


After opening a suspicious and picaresque manuscript You quickly find yourself lost in the Sierra Morena mountains of the XVIIIth century Spain - a land of heartache, castes and vanity.

The game is based on the many versions of the famous labyrinthine novel "The Saragossa Manuscript" by Count Jan Potocki, which he kept rewriting throughout his life. In the game you will be able to create your own "director's cut" of the tangled up storylines about cursed travelers who seek out new companions to help them fight of shadows.

On your journeys:


  • Enjoy epic adventures in a bright, swashbuckling setting
  • Lead three unique characters - hasty honorable soldier, shy son of a rich merchant and a thug with a heart of gold
  • Become true of heart, respectable or unstoppably quick-witted - manage the traits of your heroes
  • Face dilemmas that will alter your hero characters' honor codes
  • Cultivate NPC relationships in procedurally generated encounters
  • Easily switch between 3 characters on 3 different story planes
  • Travel Spanish landscapes listening to the radiant soundtrack by Thomas Regin

Alone in the dark


Enjoy the bright sun above while it lasts!
If you won't find a friendly soul before midnight - you'll get an unwanted visit,,,
It'll bring you "gifts" of degradation, madness, or of a hollow, unrelenting heart!

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