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As others have said in more eloquent reviews, I think this is a decent game that I cannot recommend to anyone aside from the most die-hard fans of puzzle games, i.e. people who are happy to solve puzzles for the sake of solving puzzles and nothing more. My thoughts on the game align perfectly with Joseph Anderson's, so I would highly suggest you watch his review if you are considering playing this game. You can listen to it instead to avoid puzzle spoilers. Having the endings of the game spoiled makes no difference since none of the endings are worth the time it takes to play through the whole thing.

For my first couple of play sessions, I ended up cheating and just looking up the answers to puzzles whenever I got confused or tired of them after a while. My third and final play session with this game resulted in me defaulting to looking at guides before even trying to solve the puzzles on my own. Obviously this is mainly my fault as an impatient player, but I have played through many other 3D puzzle games (Portal, Talos Principle, etc.) in which I felt shameful for looking at online guides, and did so sparingly. With The Witness, I felt nothing.

To sum up my thoughts: I feel like this game has glimmers of brilliance, but overall is just a giant missed opportunity.

me saque el platino y me senti super listo

amazing but I was too dumb to figure out the puzzles

I'm not one to drop games but uh, yeah it's not the best. I think the shadow puzzles are cool, but everything else is meh. The world seems interesting to explore at first, but it quickly becomes annoying when you're trying to find something and are just running around in circles.

I tried to enjoy this game, but it felt like I was aimlessly running around most of the time.


Yeah this is definitely the greatest game of all time. Hardly any other work (and without a doubt no other game) has probed me to think so hard and deep and left me feeling so complete and enlightened. A masterpiece I will defend to the grave.

el mejor juego de puzzles de la historia

Esse jogo me fez perceber o quão burro eu sou

Me aburrí en el medio xd igual algún otro día