Return of the Obra Dinn

Captivating story of the fate of the Obra Dinn which puts your deduction skills to the test. Amazing, fun, and addicting!

A fantastic puzzle game based on deductive reasoning. Sometimes you can leverage the confirmation system to gain information but otherwise all clues can be found through perception, knowledge of ships and reasoning through events.

This is truly a wonderful game. It has a unique 3d black and white presentation that resembles no other game. Also the story starts as something ordinary and quickly turns into a strange fantasy tale with strange creatures and other fantasy elements. The mechanic of the game is also very unique (a lot of later games like case of the golden idol tried to use the same basic idea) and the joy of finding each time the correct combination of three correct book entries will make you feel like a genius. A must play...

Oldschool visuals and great voice acting work great together to create a convincing atmosphere. Its hard detective work is a lot of fun, if you like this type of game! absolutely recommended!!

Concept of this game is rather simple yet ingenious and brilliantly executed. You're dropped on the titular ghost ship with a crew manifest (containing names, nationalities and roles) and sketches by an on-board artist depicting all of them. Your only job is to determine what happened to every single one of those 60 individuals. To make things more interesting, you got this magic pocket watch which, upon finding a corpse, allows to witness and explore a static scene of one's death. This should make the task easy, right? Well, despite the ubiquity of death, dead giveaways are a rare luxury. Vast majority of identities must be deduced by means such as language, accent, appearance, bits of dialogue and minute details found across the memories, or a process of elimination to succeed. Every time any three fates get correctly established, game confirms it - which makes brute-forcing harder while saving you time should you err. There are no stages or detached sections; it's a singular, giant puzzle and it will feel overwhelming. Screenshots don't do justice to how good it looks in action. These minimalistic graphics combined with fantastic music, sound design and voice acting make for such an incredible atmosphere that it's nothing short of an audiovisual masterpiece. I finished it twice over a week. First time around I missed many clues and ended up gaming the validating system a bit by taking educated, but still, guesses. I wasn't entirely satisfied with that and during the second run decided to never identify anyone until I found a solid evidence to back it up. Despite knowing the solutions beforehand, it proved to be no less enjoyable in addition to allowing me to fully appreciate how intricately woven the whole thing is, which is easy to miss when relying on guesswork. Indeed, turns out everybody can be pinpointed based only on logical reasoning rather than broad assumptions. And I bet there aren't many games to make you feel more like a genius by figuring it out.