Return of the Obra Dinn

I really enjoyed the presentation of the game. Tbh it's a first time I saw this well executed monochrome image. Graphics got me intrigued and the plot kept me playing. It took me almost 10 hours to 100% the game. The plot is amazing. It's hard to predict what will happen next, while the events remain believable. Pacing is great, but it fell of a little in the last part of the game. Some of the puzzles at the very end (sorting out top-men and sea-men) were a bit too convoluted for my taste. Guess it's just a part of playing an adventure game ;)

I loved it, even though I was frustrated at times cause I don't have much of deduction/logic skills

The idea is to have players walk through lo-fi vignettes to solve an insurance claim. You have seen the screenshots? Yeah, those are 3D stills you navigate trough. The grainy look stops being a problem when you see the scenes from multiple angles. The screenshots do not do the visual beauty enough justice. The voice acting is done by proper voice actors. It is about the most important aspect of the game and it has been given the most attention. Since you are walking through stills, the real action is delivered in good old teichoscopia. Not gonna spoil it. It starts out as some sort of mutiny with you walking through a black and white still of somebody being shot in the face with a front-loaded pistol. And within 10-15 minutes you will see something that will make you swear in surprise. You can finish it in 6 hours or so. You may get stuck on puzzles. Basically you walk through scenes and try to match the people in the scenes to the people in the log book of the ship. And you have to note down their fate in your insurance form. You are an insurance agent after all. With a weird clock that grants you vision of how people died.

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