Obduction ®

Just buy it! The story is amazing and the gameplay is stellar. One of the top 10 games I've played in my 40yrs of gaming.

Sadly I can't recommend this game positively as its unplayable with my graphics card so currently awaiting a refund. BE AWARE of this one ~ such is life but worth bearing in mind to avoid disappointment.

This is not really a game. This is when the demons committed mass suicide again after we left Andromeda. When they opened the blood doorway they brought pieces of the landscape with them. I saw Andromeda Mars, Andromeda Mercury up in the sky. I saw Magic Dust at the beginning near the camp fire. They are like blue magic fairydust but I'm told I'm the only one who can see that. There's Uranus Thunder. The landscape to the right leads to Uranus, the land of the long dead. If you are a regular player, you can't enter this area. I did meet a long dead, he was able to get through and he found that area interesting. The area is so interesting because it is fearful to let go and enter Uranus. For those who are impossible to let go, Uranus is there to put you completely under. Ususally the cold deep blue portion of the Neptune is more than enough, but there are few who have to go through Uranus. The blue laser light is trapping a bit of dark matter. The Demon ate Watney on Mars and that blue light traps a bit of the leftover black matter. The Waterfall is also from Andromeda, and I found a bit of Donald on the level by the gate downstream. Oh, and I found out about the origin of Swanito. He's the son of Donald and Juanita. Hopefully this was not what President Faden promised America because it looks terrible. This should be called Swanito Juanito Town. I highly recommend reducing the price to 0.99. It is an interesting experience. The five star reviews are likely to be fake.

I think this barely qualifies as a game. You start with cryptic exposition with zero context, get teleported in a place where NOTHING works, and... And that's it, really. The doors are closed, the buttons and levers give you ZERO feedback as what they're supposed to do. Let me tell you my awful experience: you meet a guy that tells you to "restore the power". And I'm quoting it literally because that's all the info you'll be given. Alright, let's go up where I can see a few cables; nothing is interactible. Fine, let's go down and look somewhere else. Nothing. And then! As soon as you try to return up in that first place, the elevator doesn't work anymore. So I guess that's enough Obduction for me. It's the most awful game I've played in years, it looks like what an edgy kid would think a game is: Uuuh, it's mysterious, you have to get into it, uhhh. Very bad choice. And if you want to argument that "Oh but the original point and click adventures were exactly like this!", well, people didn't know any better. But they do now, so this kind of gameplay for 30 bucks is a robbery.

Ok, so I have been awaiting this release for a year+. I have only a few minutes to play this morning so not much I can say about puzzels and such, but I hope to review more in the future. First I want to say the visuals are stunning. They have really done a good job and the Unreal Engine has been flawless. I am sufficiently "curious" and "clueless" and "confused" to make me want to continue and search and find and figure out. That took just a few moments. I have no idea what to expect. That too is a very good thing. I am not playing with VR but I am playing on a 23inch screen. The only current criticism is that I am getting some motion sickness I guess is what I would call it. I believe some edge blurring would help that a lot when moving view direction, and traveling. I have not checked if there are settings for this.