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The Witness (PS4)

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Developer: Thekla, Inc
Publisher: Thekla, Inc
Game Details: You awaken, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that challenge and surprise you. You can't
You awaken, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that challenge and surprise you. You can't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you came to be 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. The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles to solve. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treatsYou awaken, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that challenge and surprise you. You can't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you came to be 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. The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles to solve. 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.… Expand
Developer: Thekla, Inc
Publisher: Thekla, Inc
Genre(s): Miscellaneous General General Puzzle Puzzle Adventure 3D First-Person
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87
Metascore Generally favorable reviews
71 Positive Ratings 86%
9 Mixed Ratings 10%
2 Negative Ratings 2%
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Play UK
Mar 25, 2016
"An intensely satisfying and stupendously intelligent puzzle game that's incredibly well crafted, making it a very early, yet solid, Game of the Year contender. [Issue#267, p.62]"
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Giant Bomb
Jan 25, 2016
"The intricate puzzles and tantalizing secrets of this starkly gorgeous, mystical island are enough to lose yourself in for dozens of hours." ... Read full review
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COGconnected
Feb 1, 2016
"I don’t think The Witness is a contender of the best game ever, but I do think it’s one of the best puzzle games out there. It does everything a puzzle game should do and does it well. I would like to see a bit more opportunities to interact with objects in the world, but I completely understand why that wasn’t part of the “deliberate” design architecture. Quite simply, The Witness has been one of the best experiences in gaming I’ve had in a long time, probably in about 7 years." ... Read full review
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PlayStation LifeStyle
Jan 25, 2016
"It’s a brilliant, beautiful, masterfully crafted work, and the more you discover, the more apparent it is." ... Read full review
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Gameplanet
Feb 4, 2016
"The Witness is an expansive and wickedly smart follow-up to Braid, with puzzles to test even the brightest minds. Its mental gymnastics are well worth the occasional frustration, and you'll come out feeling like a genius." ... Read full review
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GameCrate
Feb 3, 2016
"The Witness is one of the most elegant puzzlers around. It'll make you think, it'll make you laugh, and it'll make you yell. Above all else, though, it'll take you on one memorable journey that will stay with you for a long time. " ... Read full review
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USgamer
Jan 25, 2016
"It's easy to fall in love with The Witness, and even easier to have your heart broken by the callous indifference of Jonathan Blow's beautiful island. A healthy challenge is good for any game, but the puzzles on display here offer few inroads to understanding for those who can't think exactly like their creator." ... Read full review
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7.5
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552 Positive Ratings 65%
148 Mixed Ratings 17%
147 Negative Ratings 17%
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Bellicose
May 31, 2021
If you like puzzle games, this is a masterpiece.

It may not be fun to watch (for example, like Portal sometimes is), but for the personIf you like puzzle games, this is a masterpiece.

It may not be fun to watch (for example, like Portal sometimes is), but for the person engaged with it...wow. So much of the fun takes place inside the person playing it. Which -- I mean, I get that sounds obvious, but...

I would get up Sunday mornings, make myself some tea, and stare at a grid for an hour, and I LOVED it.

For my money, best puzzle game ever made. I wish I could erase my memory and play it again.… Expand
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justwoe
Jan 28, 2016
What a wonderful game. The mapping of "real" world - the island - to the puzzles is hugely satisfying every time. The Witness treats learning,What a wonderful game. The mapping of "real" world - the island - to the puzzles is hugely satisfying every time. The Witness treats learning, gaining knowledge, and mapping it to make sense of the world around you as it's basic material. It gets to the core of learning like no other game. Very much recommended (but obviously I'm into this sort of thing).… Expand
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Allthat
Jan 26, 2016
The Witness is a puzzle game that essentially revolves around only one type of puzzle. Although there are variations to it, you’ll basicallyThe Witness is a puzzle game that essentially revolves around only one type of puzzle. Although there are variations to it, you’ll basically spend your time going around solving finger maze puzzles. However there is an environmental element to the puzzles where you’ll find solutions in the world around you. That in my opinion is a really clever implementation by Jonathan Blow (the genius who made Braid). But don’t let finger puzzles put you off... play this game, the world of The Witness is absolutely breathtaking and there is a good story behind all the puzzles even though it is quite subtle.
In my honest opinion this game is better than The Talos Principle and is on par if not better than the original Myst Games. However my biggest concern is the price, 40 dollars is just too much for an indie game with only one mechanic. The game itself however is an absolute joy and possibly one of the games of the year.… Expand
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BigPoppaFitz
May 10, 2016
The Witness would have easily scored a 10/10 for me had it not been for the ending. Lackluster does not begin to describe it (no matter howThe Witness would have easily scored a 10/10 for me had it not been for the ending. Lackluster does not begin to describe it (no matter how sensical some people feel it may be). The Witness was captivating, pulling you in immediately and slowly dragging you further and further down the rabbit hole after activating each laser. It was almost a religious experience. The story builds and builds to a point where you believe you're about to completely transcend this immersive and beautiful world and then BAM! It ends. It ends and I'm sitting there, in front of my tv. The only words that come to mind are "What?". I've never gone so quickly from joy to anger in my entire life. I felt (and feel) cheated. I'm not quite sure what or how I was exactly expecting it to end but it was definitely not like that. I don't know what else to say. The end almost ruined the entire journey. My review would have been even more harsh had I not let a month go by before writing it. It is still an experience that everyone needs to check out but just don't get yourself too excited as you see things start to unfold.… Expand
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knur
Nov 20, 2021
This game is fully packed with puzzles. Puzzles are the best thing in this game but they also bring this game down for me - some of theThis game is fully packed with puzzles. Puzzles are the best thing in this game but they also bring this game down for me - some of the puzzles are amazing, very creative and require a lot of out of the box thinking - however puzzles in this game are somewhat evenly distributed between creative ones, totally obscure and puzzles that are just chore to solve and not fun at all - sometimes you learn a mechanic and it's fun to solve next puzzles based on it, each puzzle gets more complicated or includes some twist on the mechanic - but going further it gets old and too tedious and there is no more sense of awe and discovery like before. As for the story it's decent but didn't keep me involved. Overall it's a good game worth a buy. It's quite similar to The Talos Principle but not in its league.… Expand
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rodericrinehart
Feb 17, 2017
I'll update this as I give it more time, but I just found the game lifeless and boring. Who makes a game based on a single puzzle type? ThisI'll update this as I give it more time, but I just found the game lifeless and boring. Who makes a game based on a single puzzle type? This guy, that's who. The game world is nice looking, but so are fan-made drawings on imgur and Deviant Art. There is just nothing to the world or story at all.

You will walk around a beautiful world, but spend 90% of your time staring at a line puzzle of increasingly obtuse solutions. I did not at all get the same sense of presence and philosophy and that the story bits instilled in The Talos Principle. And that game had such varied puzzles.… Expand
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C571987b
Mar 29, 2021
Όλο βλακειες βάζει η sony δωρεάν..Οκ,το πιάσαμε,το φθηνό κρέας το τρώει ο σκύλος
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