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5/5 per ciò che fa è perfetto, miglior investigativo sicuramente

Um dos melhores jogos de investigação. O jeito em que você descobre as informações faz com que você se sinta um detetive real, pois foi você quem juntou as peças e fez sentido de tudo que aconteceu. A história também é incrível.

Justiça ao meu mano Brennan.

JOGAÇO! Ótimos gráficos, mecânica de ver as mortes e uma ótima jogatina para desafiar a sua própria mente. Ótimos personagens e uma perfeita narrativa. 10/10

Bit of an experience with this one. This is the game I was in the middle of when I was hospitalized years ago. After that I kinda stopped gaming for a few months and my PC died so I didn't have a way to play. Now I do again and fortunately I had forgotten enough after three years to fully enjoy the deduction based gameplay despite having to replay half of it.

So what is this? Well it's a game from the Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope who seems to have a knack for making a captivating experience out of an otherwise dull occupation. Return of the Obra Dinn has you fill the shoes of an insurance agent tasked to investigate the titular ship that found its way back to English waters with no crew remaining and find out why that happened.

The core gameplay is a beautiful thing and can really make you feel smart. Basically what you do is you search around the ship from a first person perspective in a 3D space and find the remains of the crew. You're armed with a book that has the ship manifest with simple descriptions of characters, two images from an artist on the ship depicting the whole crew through both, a layout of each of the ship's decks, and a glossary to help you define some seafaring terms like what a midshipman is or the various decks.

The book also has a plethora of blank pages you need to fill out by learning what happened. You do this with the OTHER object in your possession, a magic pocket watch that allows you to see the final moments of a live of whoever's remains you observe. Basically you activate the watch and it plays audio similar to a radio play where you hear the person's final moments and then it shows you the moment of their death frozen in time. You're then free to look around it and note to yourself who all is involved and what's happening. You can focus on people in the scene and it'll show you their face in the mentioned artist's images in the book and it's also worth really looking around for all sorts of details that could help you identify other people the scene isn't even about. Through these scenes you can find other bodies to investigate and the ship will open up more after completing scenes.

It was really a fantastic experience. There were a lot of times I was able to just look around and piece answers together with what was shown in the various scenes but I also encountered times where I just didn't know an answer and would google stuff to help me out. Like with one instance the game shows you a guy with like tribal body tattoos and I was like "ok most people here are from places that don't usually do that kind of thing in the 1800s" so I googled "tribal body tattoo" + [whatever country in the origin list I didn't know much about] and ended up being pretty sure I knew where the guy in the game was from and thus could match his name to his face. It's a wonderful feeling. There's a lot of similar things to that too where you gotta have a sharp eye like if someone is wearing a wedding ring or even keeping track where they sleep and what shoes they have on. Hell there's even some fates you discover on the outer fringes of a scene that doesn't even prominently feature the characters!

It's all expertly woven together. All the fates intertwine and it tells a most compelling story. It's brought together in a nice little package of atmosphere with various songs to set the mood of each scene. Also the sound design coupled with the
radio play descriptors of a scene make for a super immersive experience. I mean, I don't know for sure what a man being torn apart by a fantasy beast sounds like but it feels like Pope does with all this. Oh also the game is entirely 1-bit color palette so it give the feel of playing something like Oregon Trail in a way. The whole thing together just works so well.

SO yeah this is a pretty excellent game. It made me feel smart and really compelled me to do all the everything just by being masterfully atmospheric and presenting a tale that keeps on giving. I'm reminded of The Outer Wilds or Myst in how it felt to play but the way it's presented and how you explore the story in chapters give it enough of its own feeling to call it a pretty unique experience. I know some would argue that detective type gameplay can only be enjoyed fully once since you know everything on subsequent playthroughs but I think since it has enough style Obra Dinn could still be worth Returning to (lol) the same way one might revisit a good book. Definitely recommend to anyone to give a chance but those who like figuring stuff out will be who enjoys it the most.

A nautical who-done-it mystery adventure where you play as an insurance assessor with the power of witnessing a cadaver's final moments.

If you were able to figure out the next word in that sentence as you read it, you'll feel right home.


An exceedingly clever puzzle game. There's not much to be said about this game that hasn't been said already, but I'm glad I finally got around to it. I now see the appeal.

Brilliant design, with a compelling story that unfolds brilliantly throughout each death.

Conceptually, pretty fantastic, and the closest thing I've experienced to Outer Wilds since playing it a couple years ago. However, there are a few key mechanics (or lack thereof) that make this a less freeing adventure than I might hope. For one thing, I hate the fact that you can't take notes on characters, such as their attitudes towards other characters, their assumed associations, etc. Leaving me to try to remember all the faces and all the little facts I discovered about them is pretty aggravating when, if provided with a notes feature, I could feel proud of myself for putting things together faster than the game wanted me to. Another thing that bothers me is the part where the game says "oh hey, there's another body over there to check out, go check it out!" Like, yeah, sure, I'd love to, but right now I want to further inspect the scene you just showed me, as well as refer to my journal to try to piece things together. Just a bit more on rails than I would like.

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Great game except for the fucking socks

Just brilliant. One of a kind.

Melhores jogos já feitos, não existe nada igual a este jogo.

É uma obra prima, é minha segunda vez jogando o jogo, mesmo não tendo o impacto de estar descobrindo a história pela primeira vez, é muito legal rever o Obra Dinn e é muito gostoso refazer o mistério, afinal acaba-se tendo pontos de vista diferente daqueles que você teve a primeira vez, me atentei a mais detalhes e até fiquei intrigado ao perceber quantos detalhes eu perdi enquanto jogava pela primeira vez por sinal esse jogo a primeira vez, sem você saber nada do que acontece é simplesmente fenomenal, é como assistir sexto sentido, seven e afins sem saber o que vai acontecer no filme, resolver o mistério do início ao fim é muito foda e o jogo te prende muito, a primeira vez que joguei eu zerei em uma sentada só, o jogo tende a durar umas 8 horas acredito eu, lembro que comecei a jogar no final da tarde, não consegui dormir terminei de madrugada completamente extasiado pelo que tinha acabado de jogar, é um jogo muito único e facilmente um daqueles jogos que você não esquece, desde que joguei ele nunca mais saiu do meu top 10 jogos

A masterfully written story wrote in blood that has you closely examine every minute detail to figure out who died and how. While you only get to experience the game for the first time once, I replayed this about a year and a half after my first playthrough and by then, had forgotten most of the finer details of the story.