![]() You start off in Obduction with, well, an abduction. You are wandering through a campground when you see strange bright lights in the sky, all while listening to a recorded message from a stranger describing the same kind of event. Before you know it, the light fills everything and the world as you knew it is gone. You’ll wake up to find that a large chunk of a town called Hunrath, has been taken and placed within an alien world. It seems empty aside from a few holographic messages from previous citizens. You’ll eventually meet the town’s seemingly only other survivor and he’ll task you with some pretty unusual requests. That’s about as much direction as you’ll get in this game.īelieve it or not, the squiggly blue and black gel tile is a math puzzle.Īside from the normal frustrations of trying to solve complicated puzzles with almost nothing to go off of (which is the norm for these games), there are a few other factors that aggravated me. These games require you to look at everything around you to find something that stands out so you can hopefully discover a clue or glean some knowledge on how things work in that world. That’s all well and good, until the developers litter their environments with tons of random eye-catching items as part of a Kickstarter bonus. That’s right, one of the perks of donating a certain amount of money to their Kickstarter campaign was to have a special item placed in the game just for you. That’s great for the backers, but not so much for those of us that are trying to scour the world to solve the mystery. Analyzing stray teddy bears and trinkets over and over hoping to find some clue, is not my definition of fun. Especially when so many objects mean absolutely nothing. ![]() I’m aMAZEd I actually pushed through this puzzle.Įven while backtracking through the same areas over and over, you can’t help but admire just how gorgeous Obduction is.
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