Posted on: April 24, 2020
Skerfy McMurphy
Games: 391 Reviews: 4
A joy to witness
This game is profoundly inspiring.
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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: July 16, 2021
Foxlum
Games: 155 Reviews: 1
Was a intriguing indie title then, now..
It doesn't really hold up to the price it is currently on here, just about $40 USD, that's just egregious for a puzzle game. One that released nearly 5 1/2 years ago, I'm surprised they haven't changed it to a more reasonable 15 freedom bucks or so, it just doesn't seem right.
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Posted on: June 14, 2025
Maiskolben5
Games: 147 Reviews: 2
Am I a changed man?
This game made me rethink myself in ways I didn't expect.
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Posted on: August 15, 2017
PraetorianWolfie
Verified ownerGames: 1420 Reviews: 11
Amazing multi-layered puzzle game
A very original puzzle game from J. Blow that will keep you occupied for quite a while, especially if you avoid all spoilers about it, and its themes will resonate with you long after having finished it. The Witness stores quite a few surprises for the player who explores its world. It does a lot with the variations on its puzzles and the additional content it offers. I am still discovering new stuff that I haven't noticed on my playthrough, and I am very impressed by the design choices and the thought that went into some of the puzzles and area design. There are a few puzzles that I found frustrating and more than annoying to solve, but the overall experience made up for them in spades -- also thankfully the most annoying one was optional. I'm rating this 5/5 because I still believe it was the best game (and most refreshing) I've played in 2016.
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Posted on: March 16, 2017
pitchblackink
Verified ownerGames: 282 Reviews: 2
Masterpiece
9/10 This game is a masterpiece. I'm saying it even when I do not share what Jonathan Blow says or expresses. - It is entertaining. - It is misterious. - It is beautiful. - Runs flawlessly in a not-high-end PC. I don't think everybody will love it because requires the whole patience in the world for finishing it and several people don't like puzzles either. The only missing point for my review (9 of 10) is because the difficulty. Yeah, I couldn't finish the game without looking for hints or even answers. I love difficulty, I love puzzles and I love how the island teaches you to solve puzzles but... some of them are really hard and I think it could have had more work arround that difficulty barrier.
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