Return of the Obra Dinn

I replay Return of the Obra Dinn every couple years and each time it's great fun and training for my deductive skills. It is a detective game in which you have to deduce the exact identities and fates of entire ship crew. There's mystery, there's detective work and there's interesting sory. I highly recommend to anyone who likes the "who did it?" type of play.

everyone should play this. It'll draw you in pretty quickly and forces you to think. There's no waypoints, you're not spoonfed anything. The voice acting is great on all the different accents, the musical stings are great. just great. just great

At its core it is a soduko/elimination puzzle cranked up to, well, 60. As there's 60 fates to investigate. Sometimes, you can get lucky and someone will call out to someone in the moment of their demise (which you can see as a still image you can walk around in, all rendered in glorious 2-bit dithered graphics which looks really really cool). And it's easy to figure out who they called out to. Other times, your only hope is finding indirect clues (the game basically assumes this guesswork to be correct) like someone wearing particular clothing or showing an item on them which you could see among the belongings of someone given by name earlier. And yet again, sometimes all you can do is eliminate options until only one remains. It is nothing short of amazing. It's a genuinely great puzzler with a light but servicable (carries the gameplay well even in any case) background and story, a really unique and fitting (it is set in 1807) presentation and an incredibly attention to detail. If you, **at all**, enjoy puzzles, get this one. My contender for GOTY 2018 so far!

I had more fun with this game, than with most AAA games i played this year. Don't let the visuals fool you, once you get immersed in the plot you'll forget the game is monochromatic. Not once i had difficulties to recognize what the game wanted me to see. But i'm also falling into the trap: limiting this game to it's unique look. Return if the Obra Dinn offers an intriguing gameplay that stands on its own. Only thing that I disliked, was that i could't modifiy the controls of the game. I'm a lefty and i hate being forced to use WASD, however that is not a thing that would lower my rating

This is one of the best Crime-Thriller Games I've played. It has great Mechanics and a lot of unraveld mysteries. Nothing is like it seems to be and no one will help you to solve what happend back there. You are totally on your own and it is wonderful. I really enjoy this game and hope, that the developers will keep up their wonderful work. The only bad thing is now that ... I want a new case ;D