Obduction ®

TL:DR - if you are the kind of player that wants it all easy and simple and no brainpower required - go play DOOM, otherwise if you like to be mentally challenged for a couple of dozen hours, try Obduction - but buy it on sale - it's good but not quite £24 good. I've read some of the more recent reviews and almost all of them have the same theme "WAAAA". This game isn't meant to hold your hand. It merely gives you rough clues to figure out yourself, running around, trying stuff until you work through the solution - almost like an actual PUZZLE GAME. Funny that. No you can't keybind - so learn the keys - there's only a handful anyway. Yes the localisation isn't great, but then there are quite a few other games produced for non english markets, with very poor english localisation. Localisation costs money, money better spent on developing the game and this was a KS backer funded game. Had no resolution issues - suggest those are player related, not game related. The game itself is lovely with some genuine OOOH moments for the visuals and I've been gaming for over 35 (of my 50) years, so I've seen a lot, but Obduction still managed to impress in places. I would agree the second half of the game can drag a little with the devs using a bit too much of the seed swapping system, and the Villein Maze puzzle can be a bit of a headscratcher, BUT for several of the Villein puzzles (forest area), if you learn to think in FOUR DIMENSIONS, not just the three in front of you but including the one that isn't (on the OTHER SIDE of a seed swap), you'll have an easier time of it. This is a "no frills" PUZZLE game - if you need notes - write them down on paper "old school" style, like we used to before you kids got all your fancy UI ingame notepads with easy quest reminders for those with the memory span of a gnat. There's also a camera you can use to take photographs for reference reminders later on FOR A REASON. Overall a nice change of pace, and worth the time spent.

medium quality buggy graphics, average sound, choppy control and gameplay, a whole bunch of game breaking holes that would force you to restart the game from scratch, some nice puzzles -most of them trash-lots of pointless walking and to top it off some poor as hell acting from the live action clip characters within the game would describe this game. CERTAINLY not worth 30 bucks. 5 i would say. 10 tops

Beautiful. Just gorgeous. More please.

It could be a good game, with some interesting puzzles. But the logic based on teleporting between two areas with loading time is just hell. It's not smooth, and too long with the loading time, it made me lose interest in playing.

Controls and graphics seem good. I started exploring and there seemed nothing to interact with. Got to the next scene and there are some buttons to push to get prerecorded messages, and eventually after wandering through a ton of deadends i found one button i could press to get a guy to talk to me. he asked me to turn on the power. went in some more deadends; nothing to interact with. loaded up a walk through. there is a hard to see path beside the guy that actually leads somewhere. back to 1000 deadends. sigh. i have no idea what needs to be done after what i read in the walkthrough and no goal to accomplish. the only way to progress in this game woudl be to step by step follow the walkthrough. it's also very easy to get lost since there are no landmarks or map. there is also no sensible story yet. so 0/10 on gameplay 0/10 on story, 8/10 graphics, 5/10 on controls (mostly because you just have move and press button as your controls)