Sapiens (video game)

Sapiens
Developer(s)Didier Guillion, Olivier Guillion
Publisher(s)Loriciel, Myriad Online
Composer(s)Gilles Soulet
Platform(s)Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, DOS, Thomson, Classic Mac OS, Windows, macOS
Release1986
Genre(s)Adventure, survival, RPG, fighting
Mode(s)Single-player

Sapiens is an action-adventure and text-based game set in an open world environment and played alternatively in flip-screen and first-person perspective. One of the earliest representatives of the survival game genre, it is set in a fictionalisation of Prehistory. Developed by Didier Guillion and Olivier Guillion, it was published by Loriciel in 1986 on Thomson MO5, ported to Amstrad CPC (1986), Atari ST (1987), and DOS (1987). Myriad Online, the company created by the Guillion brothers, published a Mac OS and Microsoft Windows port in 1996, recompiled in 2017.