Posted on: April 26, 2019

newbrain

Games: 165 Reviews: 2

Good results for a difficult task

Bringing back the feeling of loneliness, the drive to explore and the awe of navigating different worlds that the Myst series provided (with some lesser achievents in later titles) is tough. Obduction manages to provide all that and is a wonderful experience. I will mention only two tolerable defects: I expected puzzles to be tougher, but they were not bad, and I experienced some motion sickness (PC, not VR - never happened to me before!) that I could control using a large field of view and (counterintuitively) 50% motion blur.

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Posted on: May 31, 2019

gogorgrog

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Games: 91 Reviews: 3

Great but not perfect...

Beautiful game that throws back to Riven. There are other NPCs in the game, but their actions are more felt than seen. Some of the puzzles have a wired approach to logic that's sometimes difficult to figure out. The game world is huge with varied locations that seem very weird but that fit in the story. The story is pretty interesting and there are good and bad endings, depending on what you choose.

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Posted on: July 2, 2019

Celedam

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 1

Work of art ruined by bugs and mechanics

Obduction is a beautiful audiovisual experience, and it has many clever puzzles in the tradition of the Myst series. However, the game itself is buggy and was never properly finished, and those clever puzzles depend on a lot of backtracking and an incredibly aggravating game mechanic. BELIEVE THE OTHER BAD REVIEWS. I eventually gave up and used a walkthrough to complete the game, because I wanted to enjoy as much of the experience as I could without smashing something -- my computer, my forehead, whatever -- in aggravation.

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Posted on: July 18, 2019

Papanoel

Verified owner

Games: 381 Reviews: 1

Too much and not enough

For the good points, the game is beautiful and we want to discover all its universe. But ... it miss some background, and some puzzles are just painful, with looooonnng backtracks, even if not difficult.

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Posted on: September 11, 2019

DokV

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Games: 622 Reviews: 3

Baffled, I write this

How can I even begin this review? This game is, in a few words, a work of art. For a long time I've been one of those who dismissed Adventure Games as shallow or uninteresting. Oh how I was wrong, how was I stupid. The world building, atmosphere, art style, everything in this game is perfectly crafted to immerse us, the player in this creative and challengind new world. I can't say if it was the perspective, the music or the storytelling that transported me to this weird and unique land. What I can say is that each of these elements alone could be considered perfect, but just like any good song or food, every note and instrument, every ingredient and spice, makes the whole much better than the sum of its parts. After playing Obduction, my entire view of Adventure Games changed. What was once boring became intriguing and stimulating. What was simple became fascinating. Such was the power that Obduction exerted over my, over my being. In the end, I closed the game a new person. As I write this, with tears of in my eyes, all I can say is that I got Obducted. And I'm happy for this.

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