Chains of Satinav is the latest addition to the German multimedia series known as The Dark Eye, a German tabletop RPG penned by Ulrich Kiesow. It includes such other games as Drakensang and Kingdoms of Arkania, and is actually so popular in Germany as to have outsold Dungeons and Dragons. Chains of Satinav itself takes place in the dark fantasy world of Aventuria, and follows a humble bird-catcher known as Geron on his quest to solve the events that have uprooted him from his simple life as a peasant. Joining him on his quest is the fairy – another word for ‘naïve,’ apparently – Nuri, who gets him into all sorts of trouble by deign of not knowing jack-all about the world around her. Oh, and she’s also apparently the one thing that can either help or keep an evil wizard known as the Seer from taking over all of time and space.
Puzzle-wise, the game excels at being as intuitive as it is obtuse.
