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Sentience: The Android's Tale

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2017

Should you play it?

You can remember nothing before this moment. Your existence begins with a keystroke followed by the flick of a switch. Electrical power streams into your neural network, and you are alive.

What works

  • Meaningful player choices with impactful consequences
  • Engaging, philosophical sci-fi narrative
  • Multiple endings and replayability
  • Atmospheric music and setting
  • Low price and good value

Things to keep in mind

  • Slow pacing and movement speed
  • Repetitive fetch quests and simple gameplay
  • Lack of localization beyond english
  • Minimal visual and audio polish
  • Limited guidance and navigation aids

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Space Pilgrim Episode II: Epsilon Indi

  • Space Pilgrim Episode IV: Sol

  • Traum

  • The Mirror Lied

  • Wolf & Rabbit

  • My Big Sister

  • Richard & Alice

  • Space Pilgrim Episode III: Delta Pavonis

  • The Sand Man

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From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Space Pilgrim Episode III: Delta Pavonis

  • Space Pilgrim Episode IV: Sol

  • Space Pilgrim Episode II: Epsilon Indi

  • Space Pilgrim Episode I: Alpha Centauri

  • The Deed: Dynasty

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Sentience: The Android's Tale: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Idle. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Sensation, Competence.

Last update: 26/07/2026