Sara is a young woman whose time to die has come, so she gets a visit from the lady.
Unwilling to accept her death at such an early age, Sara challenges Death to play a game. “The condition is that you let me live for as long as I can play”. Death accepts the challenge, and so the game begins.

Sara And Death was inspired by an old movie from Ingmar Bergman – The Seventh Seal – and by Sara herself. Sara does exist, I met her when I was studying philosophy mistaking her for another old friend. By chance; best way to find a new friend indeed. Here she plays as my alter ego and the game is about love. Yet it is not a love story. It is an existential catch on love.
In a later stage of development I decided to ask Sara to be the illustrator. She shared my same doubts about love, she did a stunning job and inspired major design changes.

Its rules are simple but it is not brainless fun; the player is expected to learn by experimenting and thinking. It is not an addictive game. I wanted Sara And Death to be interesting for its difficulty and poetry, something you should savour like a fine desert, not devour like a bag of chips.

A game by: Rocco Salvetti.
Illustrations: Sara Bodini.
Music: Marc Santos.
Special thanks to: Marica Innocente, Sole Varichio, Ivy Slick, Riccardo Sion Paste, Bzur Musica, Antonio Vaccarino and Paola Caroprese.