Sentient (1995) Introduction in BEAR-O-VISION™ (MS-DOS) (4K)
2Strange game—bear wakes in dark place, no friends, only puzzles and fear. Mind twist, time break, things not what they seem. Game like dream where bear can’t find way out. Hard to understand, but bear curious... keep searching in shadows.
Sentient, released in 1995 for DOS and Macintosh by Psygnosis, is a first-person sci-fi adventure game blending exploration, puzzle-solving, and a deep narrative. Players awaken aboard a mysterious spaceship orbiting a dying alien world and must investigate strange phenomena while unraveling a complex story involving time loops and alien consciousness. Featuring detailed pre-rendered graphics and an eerie atmosphere, Sentient challenges players to piece together clues from multiple perspectives and timelines to prevent a catastrophic event. Though praised for its ambition and storytelling, the game’s unconventional mechanics and cryptic puzzles gave it a cult status among fans of cerebral sci-fi adventures.
What is BEAR-O-VISION™?
It's the visual quality standard preferred by bears, specifically rendered in VGA per-pixel at 4K resolution. It's among the highest quality output available for old games at the time of publish.
Dosbox output is OpenGL
Scaler is Normal3x
GLshader is crt-fakelottes-flat