Return of the Obra Dinn

What a unique premise and what a great game. Each scene is a beautifully crafted diorama - pore over it in detail. If you can find all the 'clues', no guesswork is needed to identify who's who. I have moderate motion sickness (many first person games cause it for me, third person games are usually OK). The dithering effect here caused me motion sickness but the game was amazing enough that completing it was still entirely worth it. Short play sessions and playing the game in a much smaller 'window' helped immensely.

This is a very good idea for a strategy game, and atmospherically it works well - the music is great and one is easily able to get into the game. However, for a game that really requires you to notice fine details of various scenes, I find the graphical choice of basically rendering everything with monochrome graphics to be... odd, to say the least. I found myself really squinting a lot of the time and not being able to make out what was going on in various scenes because the graphics were just so grainy and unclear. Maybe this was intentional, making it harder to figure stuff out, but I think it would've been better if they'd just had clear, multi-colour graphics frankly.

I really enjoyed the presentation of the game. Tbh it's a first time I saw this well executed monochrome image. Graphics got me intrigued and the plot kept me playing. It took me almost 10 hours to 100% the game. The plot is amazing. It's hard to predict what will happen next, while the events remain believable. Pacing is great, but it fell of a little in the last part of the game. Some of the puzzles at the very end (sorting out top-men and sea-men) were a bit too convoluted for my taste. Guess it's just a part of playing an adventure game ;)

I loved it, even though I was frustrated at times cause I don't have much of deduction/logic skills

The idea is to have players walk through lo-fi vignettes to solve an insurance claim. You have seen the screenshots? Yeah, those are 3D stills you navigate trough. The grainy look stops being a problem when you see the scenes from multiple angles. The screenshots do not do the visual beauty enough justice. The voice acting is done by proper voice actors. It is about the most important aspect of the game and it has been given the most attention. Since you are walking through stills, the real action is delivered in good old teichoscopia. Not gonna spoil it. It starts out as some sort of mutiny with you walking through a black and white still of somebody being shot in the face with a front-loaded pistol. And within 10-15 minutes you will see something that will make you swear in surprise. You can finish it in 6 hours or so. You may get stuck on puzzles. Basically you walk through scenes and try to match the people in the scenes to the people in the log book of the ship. And you have to note down their fate in your insurance form. You are an insurance agent after all. With a weird clock that grants you vision of how people died.