Obduction ®

I think this barely qualifies as a game. You start with cryptic exposition with zero context, get teleported in a place where NOTHING works, and... And that's it, really. The doors are closed, the buttons and levers give you ZERO feedback as what they're supposed to do. Let me tell you my awful experience: you meet a guy that tells you to "restore the power". And I'm quoting it literally because that's all the info you'll be given. Alright, let's go up where I can see a few cables; nothing is interactible. Fine, let's go down and look somewhere else. Nothing. And then! As soon as you try to return up in that first place, the elevator doesn't work anymore. So I guess that's enough Obduction for me. It's the most awful game I've played in years, it looks like what an edgy kid would think a game is: Uuuh, it's mysterious, you have to get into it, uhhh. Very bad choice. And if you want to argument that "Oh but the original point and click adventures were exactly like this!", well, people didn't know any better. But they do now, so this kind of gameplay for 30 bucks is a robbery.

Ok, so I have been awaiting this release for a year+. I have only a few minutes to play this morning so not much I can say about puzzels and such, but I hope to review more in the future. First I want to say the visuals are stunning. They have really done a good job and the Unreal Engine has been flawless. I am sufficiently "curious" and "clueless" and "confused" to make me want to continue and search and find and figure out. That took just a few moments. I have no idea what to expect. That too is a very good thing. I am not playing with VR but I am playing on a 23inch screen. The only current criticism is that I am getting some motion sickness I guess is what I would call it. I believe some edge blurring would help that a lot when moving view direction, and traveling. I have not checked if there are settings for this.

Athmosphere in this game is among the worst I ever played. Why is visually almost everything (grass etc) static? Running back and forth over and over again through extremely dead-feeling environments is just weird. Has the developer never been to a forest or something in real life? Just made me feel uncomfortable. Graphics are okay (except for the static environment), sound design is good, the puzzles are horrible.

Hi After playing all the Myst games including Uru and The path of the shell i really jumped in the chair when i saw this on GOG. After succesfully installing it i was ready for playtime.....but the game will not load. After about 10 minutes starring at a white circle with the word "loading" and listening to a distant thunderstorm i gave up and restarted my PC and tried again with a new role name, but i still will not load. Can anyone help?