Posted on: September 16, 2024
sklieu
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The Witness
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The Witness
Description
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
You don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you got here, but there's one thing you can do: explore the island in hope of discovering clues, regaining your memory, and somehow finding your way home.
The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler; each of those puzzles brings its own new idea into the mix. So, this is a game full of ideas.
You don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you got here, but there's one thing you can do: explore the island in hope of discovering clues, regaining your memory, and somehow finding your way home.
The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler; each of those puzzles brings its own new idea into the mix. So, this is a game full of ideas.
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37.5 h Completionist
22.5 h All Styles
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Game Informer
9.3/10
Fun and inventive challenges wait around every corner. If you want something more than a barrage of thoughtful puzzles (like a story), you should look elsewhere
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10/10
The Witness has a power and pull that carried me throughout the more than 40 hours it took to complete it for the first time, and that, even now, beckons me back to confront the mysteries I left unsolved. Its graceful combination of tangible goals, obscurity, and freedom creates ample opportunity for small victories and grand revelations alike. For the most part, its themes weave themselves beautifully throughout the gorgeous world and wide variety of puzzles, but even when it breaks subtlety in favor of a more heavy-handed approach to exposition, it never detracts from the truly fulfilling moments The Witness offers in terms of solving its physical puzzles and unlocking its deepest mysteries.
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Recommended
Big, beautiful and rewarding, Jon Blow's enigmatic puzzle epic is virtuoso game design - and only a fraction too clever for its own good.
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Posted on: June 21, 2025
evilim
Games: 54 Reviews: 1
Beautiful and just enough challenge.
One of the best puzzle games ever made.
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Posted on: July 4, 2025
ralfonat
Verified ownerGames: 122 Reviews: 1
best game EVER
omg, impossible to explain. Can only LIVE through this. BEST GAME EVER.
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Posted on: March 4, 2024
Gottobered
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 12
Beautiful but highly frustrating
The Witness (why is it called that?) is a beautiful game. Gorgeous graphics set on a stunning island with lots to explore. I spent ages just wandering around to start with getting used to the layout. However, it's highly frustrating trying to work out how to do those endless line puzzles. I kept hoping something else would happen like the statues coming to life or something. Otherwise what was their point? There are places you come across which lead nowhere and where there is nothing to do. The recordings dotted around didn't seem to have any purpose to me and neither did the videos. The ending was very disapointing. To me this was like a mixture of Myst, Obduction and Quern. If you like line puzzles and you have the kind of brain which can work these things out then you'll love this game. For the rest of us it really is a wonderful land to explore but I wish it had been something else. Having said all this I will attempt it again just because it's so stunning.
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Posted on: June 19, 2024
TheUniporn
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The first impression that it was too simple was wrong. The puzzles get (a lot) more complicated and give you that feeling of accomplishment that we crave. https://pixelloot.com
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