The Sentient

The Sentient

Uncaged Studios · February 29, 2016 · Early Access, Indie, Strategy, Simulation, RPG

Buy The Sentient from Steam at $9.99 — the cheapest of 2 stores we compare.

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Mostly Negative39% · 83
Best price
$9.99
lowest tracked $4.99
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The Sentient price by region

The Sentient costs £6.99 in the United Kingdom, $6.99 in Georgia (USD), $9.99 in the United States, €9.99 in Europe (EUR), CA$10.99 in Canada, NZ$11.99 in New Zealand, A$18.90 in Australia, R$19.99 in Brazil and zł35.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest The Sentient offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £6.99 £6.99 — 2
Georgia (USD) $6.99 $6.99 — 2
United Statesyour region $9.99 $9.99 — 2
Europe (EUR) €9.99 €9.99 — 2
Canada CA$10.99 CA$10.99 — 2
New Zealand NZ$11.99 NZ$11.99 — 2
Australia A$18.90 A$18.90 — 1
Brazil R$19.99 R$19.99 — 2
Poland zł35.99 zł35.99 — 2

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About The Sentient

In The Sentient, you play as an artificial intelligence who is asked to help mankind’s failing space exploration plans. Being able to process data relatively quickly you are tasked with bringing as much research and knowledge back to Earth via an orbital station known as "The Ark." At the Ark, you are able to recruit a crew, alter the layout of your ship, and perform research to improve current and new technology in order to aid you on future missions. When away from the Ark, your decisions can result in the life or death of not only your ship but of your crew. Space is a vast unknown so everything must be discovered in order to attempt to work with or against aliens.

Key Features:
1) Procedurally-generated: Explore unpredictable sectors of space.
2) Choose a crew: Recruit a crew with perks and daily needs. Train them well and become stronger.
3) Fully-customizable ship: Design and optimize the complete layout of your ship - from the number of shield generators to toilets. Everything is in your hands!
4) Ship-to-ship combat (based on ship designs and crew capabilities): Not able to withstand enough damage? Increase the number of shield generators and shield consoles. Not enough damage output? Increase the number of weapon tanks and weapon consoles.
5) Ongoing research: Gain research usable in upgrading weaponry, ship stats and capabilities.

The Sentient — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

The Sentient is an abandoned Early Access title that was never finished despite being removed from Early Access status, with the developer pivoting the project midway through development and then ceasing all support over five years ago. Players describe it as incomplete, feature-sparse, and fundamentally broken by unfulfilled promises, comparing it unfavorably to its inspiration FTL. The consensus is clear: players advise against purchasing under any circumstances.

Not recommended Jul 27, 2023
The Sentient is an abandoned Early Access ripoff of FTL, the space surival strategy game where you keep yourself alive by platespinning while RNG rips your stats to shreds. What fun. The game started out as a 2D top down game like FTL, then the developer decided to take the money he had scammed out of gamers and try make this a 2D ISO perspective game instead of finishing what he committed to. Ethical, isn't it? Nope. The game was abandoned less than 2 years after launch and hasn't been updated in over 5 years. It blew past the developers commitment to complete the game without any notification or admission of failure from the developer. The game will never be completed. Despite not being in Steam Early Access (where this arguably belongs), the game is missing features and is apparently incomplete. Due to the lack of meaningful progress from the developer, it's unlikely the game will be completed at all, yet the developers reprehensively have their hand out for money for an incomplete game. This is a good reason for gamers to avoid this. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was ma…
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 1, 2024
Abandonware
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 2, 2022
Don't. Save yourself the money.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended May 26, 2026
abandoned and incomplete
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 29, 2026
wasted money
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Nov 14, 2023
Another game of broken promises. Developer abandoned it. Don't even touch this game.
1 found this helpful

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