Obduction ®

Even if it seems intriguing, I would strongly urge you to avoid it at all costs. Note that many of the positive reviews mention that they have played only for a few hours. The game wears you down until it makes you hate it and yourself for spending so much time on it. It is all about opening doors so you don't take so long traveling from place to place. That's the whole game. The puzzles and design decisions are greatly flawed.

The game itself is good, and it does bring back wonderful memories of the past games, such as Myst and Riven, but the loading times are far too long. Booting the game takes 2 minutes, but pressing resume takes approximately 10 minutes! Strangely enough, I found that if I press LOAD rather than RESUME, it only takes 2-3 minutes to load my last save. Inside the game, however, there are more loading issues, such as moving from one zone to the next. These take another 2-3 minutes, and some puzzles require you to regularily jump back and forth. I have an i7 machine, which is capable of loading other games in seconds. I found that even after installing it on an SSD it's still very slow. I'm hoping the developers can do something about this, but at the moment it just looks like they've done a poor job optimizing the game. Beyond that, it's beautiful, with some interesting (with the occasional stupid) puzzles.

Beautiful graphics, decent puzzles that allow you to figure out (except for the maze). Unfortunately, wished there was an option on the menu to save game to a name instead of just one major save. After spending untold hours in these worlds, found myself at the bottom of a pod in netherland or when trying a load instead of resume, just floating. Game is hosed. It has some slow moments (esp in the first tree where you wonder if you are hosed or timing...). However, seems to be quite a few glitches in searching the web. It is apparent my game is toast. My husbands game is so far okay but I dont hold out hope. Its not the money, its the time. Not a student, work a 24 oncall job and finding time to blow on this game was tight. There is no way I am starting at the beginning again. If we're all beta it would be nice to know. If you want to try this game, I'd wait a year to see if they can get it paste glitchville.

The first section of the game is excellent. Felt like the first time I played Myst many years ago. But once you progress past the first area, the game quickly jumps on rails. The puzzles became less interesting and more tedious. Environments became more linear. Bugs started popping up and performance dipped when it had no reason to. It felt like the developers had to rush to finish it and just started cutting corners to do what they could with the time (money?) they had. I will say that the story was well thought out and paced throughout the game, and they did a good job revealing it as the game progressed. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to carry it. Had the entire game been like that first hour or so, it could have been a masterpiece, but sadly if flopped for me.

This is potentially the most amazing game i have ever played, BUT it crashes. Also it doesnt run that well even on a gtx 980ti. I had to turn the graphics down a lot to get a non janky ,relatively non stuttery frame rate. The final straw was the last crash where it corrupted my game save, so now it wont load. Well thats the end of Obduction for me! Uninstalled and playing some non crashing games! This had some amazing moments, but the Vliein bridges section was infuriating, just so cryptic and each time you teleport, you have to wait and wait, while the frame rate drops away to a few frames per second, which is just about as interesting as watching paint dry. If a game stops moving forward( or goes round in circles) , there is a point where i will just abandon a game, the FUN is gone at that point.So the last teleport where i thought it was nearing solving that level, it crashes and messes my game save. end of story. I get they were going for amazing graphics(which is true) but the performance just kills it. It negatively affects the game play and immersion. Ah well...