I’ve been wanting to make a thread like this for a while now but never really found anything worth sharing that was rather unheard of until a couple weeks ago while browsing around Steam I came across a game called Return of the Obra Dinn. I nearly scrolled right on past until I noticed it was developed by Lucas Pope, the same developer of Papers, Please, one of my favorite PC games in recent memory. And this is without a doubt the best puzzle game I’ve ever played.
The game is styled around old Macintosh computer games and somehow still looks incredible. The story takes place in the 1800s and is about a ship called the Obra Dinn that has been found in British waters after five years of being missing. You play as an insurance adjuster who is tasked to find out what happened to the crew and passengers that were aboard the ship. The way you do this is with the help of a stopwatch called Memento Mortem which lets you hear the last moments of a person’s death like a radio drama and allows you to explore the frozen moment of someone’s death to figure out who died, how they died, who was there, and where it happened.
Before you consider buying this game, I feel like I need to tell you several things first. Firstly, this whole game is really just one big logic puzzle and relies a shit ton on deductive reasoning so if that doesn’t sound appealing do not buy this game. Another thing you need to know is that sometimes you’re just gonna have to take a guess as to who someone is. For example, on the ship there are four Asian crew members that look exactly alike and I could not for the life of me differentiate the four, after checking around online Lucas Pope said there was a way to find out who was who but it was the hardest puzzle in the game, and believe me it’s much easier to throw names around and see what will stick. The last thing I want to say to anyone interested, and this is the most important, is to take your time and savor it. After beating it, it has almost no replay value so take your sweet time with it and don’t feel you need to rush it.
(tl;dr: Return of the Obra Dinn is phenomenal, 10/10)
Sorry for the rant but that’s what this thread is all about I guess. What are some indie games you love that most people probably haven’t heard of?
The game is styled around old Macintosh computer games and somehow still looks incredible. The story takes place in the 1800s and is about a ship called the Obra Dinn that has been found in British waters after five years of being missing. You play as an insurance adjuster who is tasked to find out what happened to the crew and passengers that were aboard the ship. The way you do this is with the help of a stopwatch called Memento Mortem which lets you hear the last moments of a person’s death like a radio drama and allows you to explore the frozen moment of someone’s death to figure out who died, how they died, who was there, and where it happened.
Before you consider buying this game, I feel like I need to tell you several things first. Firstly, this whole game is really just one big logic puzzle and relies a shit ton on deductive reasoning so if that doesn’t sound appealing do not buy this game. Another thing you need to know is that sometimes you’re just gonna have to take a guess as to who someone is. For example, on the ship there are four Asian crew members that look exactly alike and I could not for the life of me differentiate the four, after checking around online Lucas Pope said there was a way to find out who was who but it was the hardest puzzle in the game, and believe me it’s much easier to throw names around and see what will stick. The last thing I want to say to anyone interested, and this is the most important, is to take your time and savor it. After beating it, it has almost no replay value so take your sweet time with it and don’t feel you need to rush it.
(tl;dr: Return of the Obra Dinn is phenomenal, 10/10)
Sorry for the rant but that’s what this thread is all about I guess. What are some indie games you love that most people probably haven’t heard of?
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