Obduction is a beautiful puzzle game that mostly focuses on exploration. I would not really say that Obduction is a Myst-like game, especially in term of the puzzles. You start the game as the last “arriver“ in an apparent dead town on an alien world, after having been abducted for an unknown reason from your home world. And so you will have to explore this strange world to figure out where you are and what happened to all the other arrivers through any diaries, notes, videos and recordings you find. I absolutely loved the exploration part of the game. While uncovering the story and learn about the life of the arrivers, there are 4 different worlds to discover, with 3 different alien species to learn about. But if you do not like walking simulators, you might not enjoy the game much, because in Obduction, you walk a lot, going many times back and forth between places. At the end of the game, you will definitely have the whole map of the different worlds in your head. There are two main types of puzzles in the game. First, you have to figure out some code that will unlock some door or bridge, by piecing together the clues you find while exploring around. Then, there are the teleportation puzzles which consist of teleporting between worlds and switching the spherical area around teleporters to modify the environment. I found them quite interesting as they make you juggle with the surroundings between worlds. The downside is that they may take a long time given the necessary walking back and forth between teleporters and the long loading time for teleportations that can take 30 secondes to 2 minutes... Obduction might not be for everyone given the long loading times and the huge amount of walking required, but if you like exploration games, are curious and patient enough, you should try it out!
