Obduction ®

The story is not-at-all engaging, first and foremost. You get to a place, nothing is explained, and somehow you're supposed to fix everything. Question: out of the 127 interactable, which do you start with? Good luck figuring it out while you search for the plothook in the first two hours. Controls feel shabby and amateurish, it's like sliding on butter while occationally hitting invisible walls. In what i presume would be the first act, I encountered a gamebraking bug,that can only be fixed by restarting the game, or constantly keeping separate backup saves on your computer, as the game uses an autosave feature that doesn't even let you reload checkpoints. Also after walking 2 hours in circles, you get tired of the music, but at least it's atmospheric. The only thing this game has going for it is it's looks. I was amazed by the graphics the first time I started playing. Coloration and models look just the way they're supposed to look in this cartoon-ish enviroment. Imagine Firewatch, but with RTX turned on. You can capture a player without giving too much of the story, like Talos Principle did. I just don't find the motivation to go around once again the entire town just to see if anything changed after i moved a stick slightly to the left. This game could be fun if you had someone next to you recyting the complete guide, because then the two of you could see all the spectacles without frustration. My advice would be to hire some more testers next time.

---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Paint.exe ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Starring at walls is better ☐ Just don‘t ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ Earrape ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boiiiiii ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{Difficulity}--- ☐ Just press ‚A‘ ☐ Easy ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isnt necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You‘ll need a second life for grinding ---{Story}--- ☐ Story? ☐ Text or Audio floating around ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovley ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{Price}--- ☐ It’s free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{Bugs}--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

Wonderful experience - the game has an interesting story and good mechanics. The puzzles are reasonably challenging, though some of them are a bit sneaky. Read EVERYTHING - vital information is often contained in bits of paper you find lying around, in typical Myst fashion. I bought this after completing Quern because I wanted another game to play with my wife to wind down after work and it delivered. My only "complaint" is that it was "too short" in that it felt that there could have been more story development, but it all made sense in the end. In short, I doubt you will be disappointed.

Ever since Myst and its sequels I have been waiting for another game like this: A stunningly well designed world full of clever puzzles and mysteries (but - that´s important - without frequent unnerving adrenaline hits to my stress system in terms of threats, snipers or monsters...). Now Obduction is out, and I LOVE it!!! It´s reallllly great, I even bought a brandnew PC with much more capacity for graphics. I would not have done this for any other game. I try to make progress but I already fear to be through with it one day. I really hope this won´t be the last we hear from Cyan, I will need more of this, carry on folks, plz!!! :))) Doro Böhm, Germany, early backer ;)))

What more can be said, great visuals, fun puzzles and a good dose of Cyan humor.