very unique game where you solve for the identity and fate of every person who originally set off on a now abandoned ship. Obra Dinn unlike any game I've ever played. It's hard to say it's a mystery game, but more so a deduction game where you get a fuck ton of information, and have to parse through it to find all of the little details.

I played this game with Robert, and thoroughly enjoyed myself over the few days we played it. There's a lot of great "aha!" moments that really satisfy the player. No lie, robert did like 65% of the detective work, and it would have taken me probably 10 more hours to finish if i played it by myself.

Only gripe is really with the ending. Maybe I missed a lot of its thematic messaging in the chaos of trying to solve tha game's mysteries, but it felt like it was building up to something massive, but in the end it felt underwhelming. You get access to information that the player builds up as being the explanation for a lot in the game, but in hindsight a lot of that information is gained through deducing the identities and fates, and the whiplash of solving everything hurts the ending in a weird way. Though, I also think with how the game is made and the type of game it is, it is BETTER that all of the informative satisfaction comes from the player solving for information, rather than being given it in an ending, so this is excusable.