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The Witness

2016 85 / 100 Adventure Indie Puzzle

The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler; each of those puzzles brings its own new idea into the mix. So, this is a game full of ideas.

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Shared DNA
Indie Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode
World design Open World GameplayExploration ExperienceChoices GameplayPuzzles

Deep dive / Spielprofil

What it is about.

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Story & context

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you. You don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you got here, but there's one thing you can do: explore the island in hope of discovering clues, regaining your memory, and somehow finding your way home.

GameplayExploration ExperienceChoices GameplayPuzzles GenreAdventure GenreIndie GenrePuzzle ThemeMystery ThemeOpen world ThemeScience fiction Traitamnesia Traitaudio logs Traitauto-saving Traitbacktracking Traitbink video Traitdarkness Traitdigital distribution Traiteasy Traitenvironmental puzzles Traitexploration Traitfamous quotes Traitfull motion video Traitgame reference Traithexagon Traitinconvenient malfunction Traitlow-poly Traitmaze Traitmultiple endings Traitno hud Traitpax prime 2010 Traitpolygonal 3d Traitpop culture reference Traitprocedural generation Traitpuzzle games with stories Traitsecret area Traitsimon says Traitsingle-player only Traitstat tracking Traitsteam Traitsteam achievements Traitthe game awards - best independent game - nominee Traitthe game awards - nominee Traitthe game awards 2016 Traittime limit Traituseable vehicles Traitvoice acting

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Game profile / Plain language

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Studios & ownership

Studio & publishing

Developer
Thekla, Inc
Publisher
Thekla, Inc
Franchise
Standalone
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So spielt es sich

Spielprofil

Modi
Single player
Perspective
First person
Themes
Mystery, Open world, Science fiction
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Wo & wann

Platform releases

  • Xbox One Sep 13, 2016
  • iOS Sep 21, 2017
  • PC (Microsoft Windows) Jan 26, 2016
  • Mac Mar 12, 2017
  • PlayStation 4 Jan 26, 2016
  • Mac Mar 08, 2017

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