Posted on: October 4, 2025
PadGog
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Viewfinder
Description
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
Viewfinder is a mind-bending first person adventure game in which you can bring pictures to life by placing them into the world.
- Reshape Reality: Beyond photographs, bring paintings, sketches, screenshots and postcards to life while reshaping the world
- Exploration is learning: You will learn the secrets of the world, the reason why it exists, and the freedom to create. Explore multiple hub worlds that are all cohesive and encompass similar, but complex, differences
- Experience as much as you want: Viewfinder’s narrative is player driven and will be an approachable experience to someone who just wants to play and solve puzzles, and a rich well thought off world to a player who wants to learn more
- Find the answer to the impossible, once you step in the world of Viewfinder
Popular achievements
No way out!
Break the only teleporter
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64.96%
Pet the Cait
Pet Cait
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53.85%
Bye bye, Battery!
Drop a battery off the level
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53.85%
I fold
Put down both playing cards
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33.33%
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Get the camera
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32.48%
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5 h Main + Sides
6 h Completionist
5 h All Styles
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5/5 stars
Sad Owl Studios has delivered a puzzling experience that's both instantly approachable and inventive enough to keep you guessing throughout. Viewfinder is simply wonderful – a breath of fresh air that shouldn't be ignored.
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87/100
Innovative puzzle design and truly astonishing visual trickery make this puzzle game a must-play-even if it doesn't quite have the space to make the most of its best ideas.
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8.25/10
The entirety of Viewfinder, including completing its optional puzzles, only takes a few hours, but its brevity is a strength. The game has no unnecessary fat where you use familiar solutions to solve slight variations of puzzles you’ve already completed. Every level feels like it is trying out a new idea based on the core concept making it a consistently novel experience throughout.
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Posted on: October 6, 2025
StarchyArchie
Verified ownerGames: 115 Reviews: 1
Enjoyable, but left a lot to be desired
I love the idea of using a camera to take snapshots of the world around in order to manipulate both the environment and objects within to solve puzzles, and it was executed passably here. The art style and environments are beautiful, but can get somewhat samey after a while, but they sufficiently characterize each section to somewhat reflect the personality of the central figure for each hub. The game does not overstay its welcome, but the puzzles for the most part left much to be desired. Not to say that they were poorly constructed, but I was repeatedly left feeling like I'd finally completed a tutorial section, looking forward to what other interesting puzzles they'd made utilizing the introduced mechanics only for the area to be over with no further difficulty or complexity to be had. There are many ways to use the level geometry or the camera to access portions of the map that are ostensibly not part of the puzzle at hand, but it was still a little bit disappointing that in none of these places were there any sort of secrets. The secrets/collectibles that are present for the most part are hard to miss if you take time to walk around and explore each level a bit instead of going straight to solving the puzzles. The story was nothing particularly special but the characters inside and the voice acting kept me intrigued enough to go looking for other tidbits of information about them. I do like how it feels like you're seeing small slices of this group of people over a large amount of time. All in all, I quite enjoyed my time with this game, and my main gripes all sort of boil down to, I want more. More complex puzzles, more hidden secrets, more expansion on mechanics, more insight into the characters' dynamics with one another, just more of almost everything. It's well worth the time but for someone who plays a lot of puzzle games, you may come out somewhat underwhelmed.
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Posted on: October 8, 2025
cipheritis
Verified ownerGames: 104 Reviews: 2
Novel Game Mechanic
Viewfinder introduces a new game mechanic that I have not seen before. Think something a la the Portal gun. Here you are manipulating the space around you using 2D images that become 3D. The game does well with its progression of puzzles for the most part but there are a few points that force you to think out of the box. In the end, it left me wanting more and intricate/difficult puzzles and I think there is a lot of room for growth. I hope to see a Viewfinder 2 in the same way that Portal 2 took the Portal gun concept and greatly expanded on it. The story is well thought out, and the voice acting is well done. Visually, the game is a winner. Overall, would definitely recommend.
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Posted on: October 10, 2025
gordonfreeman1
Verified ownerGames: 704 Reviews: 5
A unique mechanic that plays great
Viewfinder is a 3D indie puzzle adventure game with the unique mechanic of being able to remodel the environment using photographs. The game uses this hook very creatively in its varied puzzles and expands upon these mechanics inventively throughout the about 10 hours it takes to complete it if you want to get all achievements like me. There are also various collectibles and secrets scattered around if you like to explore, with several being very creative and fun to discover, including some easter eggs. The beautiful visuals and serene music create a relaxing feel when playing the game and it even has a cat-like creature you can pet if that wasn't enough. The story is simple but nice enough although it's very clearly the unique gameplay that is the star here. I wish they'd pushed the mechanics even further and made a more conclusive story as the ending is fine but it could have been better. The voice acting is hit and miss, with several of the main companions being over-acted but the supporting cast having more fitting voice acting but this is overall a minor quibble. Overall, the amazing puzzles built off the game's unique mechanic combined with the serene gameplay feel make this game a must-play, highly recommended!
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Posted on: October 2, 2025
PALOMINGO
Verified ownerGames: 143 Reviews: 4
How???!!!!
How is this game actually really well made? Idk. Short but good
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