Obduction ®

Some of the puzzles were quite challenging. The story within the papers you pick up has you questioning what happened in the different worlds. If you are looking to step away from the insane action games and looking for puzzles, this is it. Probably the most puzzling game I've played.

The story seems interesting enough, but the gameplay is really boring. I spend what felt like quite a lot of time trying to find out where the game is. The area you're dropped in is large, but it's full of dead ends and objects you can't interact with. To see whether you can interact with something, you must stop moving. The sheer number of objects makes it hard to spot objects you can interact with, which is not helped by a lack of standardization in what buttons look like. When I did eventually find the game, it was primarily in the form of stumbling on things I could interact with and clicking them to progress. There was no thought involved. After a while of this, I was given a cart to drive around, but its operation is far too realistic to be any fun. You have to get out of it and adjust the track levers every time you want to turn, and it's fairly slow and noisy. That's as far as I got before deciding this isn't my cup of tea.

Loading with everytime i try to change in puzzle maze it was HORRIBLE ! Loading here loading there WTF was that ! never again thanks GOG for Free game but not worth for money !

Touching and original story, fascinating landscapes, puzzles that perfectly blend with the storytelling - what else to ask for?

Many people remember the "Myst" games from the nineties with fondness and would if asked answer that they want more of those games. And so eventually Cyan studios answered their prayers with this game. A "Myst" game, but with a new story and world and in first person 3D rather than hyper cards. Cyan made it faithful to the original with new tech, but this as it turns out, is not necessarily a good thing. With full 3D, walking everywhere, the world while beautiful, comes off as artificial and fake. Moon logic puzzles were more acceptable in a world made up of cards, rather than one that looks real. I mean I could climb a lot of obstacles in this game in real life. A geriatric could climb a few of them and Gordon Freeman would clear this game in 30 min flat. But there are no jump or climb buttons in this game, so you are forced to follow the games arbitrary puzzle logic instead. The worst example of this comes in the second world you visit. You are blocked by a railcar that sits in your path. A normal person would just squeeze past the 40 cm gap in the blockade. Even a very fat person could do that. But instead you must run around the entire world twice and be teleported to other worlds a couple of times so that you can reach a switch to move the railcar... Not to mention that movement is much slower than in previous games due to the 3D. In Myst you could Super Run by klickin the next button really fast and as such no place were far from any other place. In this game you can only walk to places or "run" slowly. That means that transportation times are huge. Most of your time is not spent solving puzzles. It is spent transporting yourself. Also, why cant you speak to NPCs? In Myst it made sense because you only had one way communication, but in this game there is no such thing blocking you. And many NPCs are assholes. Why are you listening to them anyway?