Obsidian PC
  • Publisher: SegaSoft
  • Release Date: Dec 31, 1996
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  • Summary: You, as biochemical engineer Lilah Kerlin, and your partner Max Powers, an environmental engineer, have created the Ceres Project -- an orbiting satellite that releases nanobots into the atmosphere designed to restore the ozone layer and eliminate atmospheric pollution, which has reached a crisis point in the year 2066. After successfully engineering and launching Ceres, the project is left to operate under its own control. With the job complete Lilah and Max decide to go on a long overdue vacation. However, while vacationing they discover a strange black, crystalline growth that is becoming larger every day ? and somehow it seems to be eerily linked to the Ceres Project. [AdventureGamers.com]… Expand

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  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
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  1. Four Fat Chicks
    100
    A classic. That's what it is. Obsidian may be the most innovative, imaginative puzzle adventure ever conceived.
  2. GameSpot
    86
    From beginning to end, Obsidian is an entertaining, surreal romp.
  3. PC Gamer
    83
    Obsidian manages to distinguish itself as a truly different adventure, where traditional puzzling melds with abstract thought. [May 1997, p.124]
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  4. Adventure Gamers
    60
    A slightly above average sci-fi adventure; recommended for those who don't mind slideshow adventures.

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  1. GabeC.
    10
    Obsidian is one of the greatest classics of all time.

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