In Return of the Obra Dinn you play as an insurance investigator trying to figure out what happened on the Obra Dinn, a ship that disappeared and came back without its 60 crewmates & passengers. Your only tools are a 'magic' death compass and a book which contains some information about the passengers (name, why they're on the ship, and their origin), a few pictures of everyone and some other useful information.
It is your job to figure out who everyone is and how they died with those tools. When you use the compass near a death body, it sets up a static scene with a few lines of dialogue that show what happened at the time the person died. With those scenes and the information in them plus the book, you get all the information you need to figure out who they are and how they died. But that information can sometimes be hidden in plain sight. It could be someone's accent, or their location on the ship, what they're wearing or who they're talking to. You have to pay a lot of attention to every small detail and it's really not as easy as it sounds but it is fun and creates some of the best EUREKA moments I've ever had in a game.
The first thing that caught my eye is the very unique 1-bit art style that comes straight out of an old computer. This style combined with the amazing soundtrack creates a mysterious atmosphere that fits so well within the game. Obra Dinn tells its story in a very untraditional way, it's like you go back through the story, and I love it for that. We really do need more games like this one.
Return of the Obra Dinn is an amazing murder mystery/puzzle game that I absolutely loved playing.
It is your job to figure out who everyone is and how they died with those tools. When you use the compass near a death body, it sets up a static scene with a few lines of dialogue that show what happened at the time the person died. With those scenes and the information in them plus the book, you get all the information you need to figure out who they are and how they died. But that information can sometimes be hidden in plain sight. It could be someone's accent, or their location on the ship, what they're wearing or who they're talking to. You have to pay a lot of attention to every small detail and it's really not as easy as it sounds but it is fun and creates some of the best EUREKA moments I've ever had in a game.
The first thing that caught my eye is the very unique 1-bit art style that comes straight out of an old computer. This style combined with the amazing soundtrack creates a mysterious atmosphere that fits so well within the game. Obra Dinn tells its story in a very untraditional way, it's like you go back through the story, and I love it for that. We really do need more games like this one.
Return of the Obra Dinn is an amazing murder mystery/puzzle game that I absolutely loved playing.