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The Witness

2016
IndieAdventurePuzzle
⏱ ~4h to beat (main story)
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The Witness was released in 2016. It is a Indie, Adventure, Puzzle game. The main story takes approximately 4 hours to complete.

About The Witness

The Witness is a 3D puzzle game where you explore a mysterious island full of natural and artificial structures. The game is focused on non-verbal communication that should make the player more attentive to the environment surrounding him. To complete the game, you need to solve puzzles in each of the eleven island's regions and get to the mountain in the center of it. While the regions differ a little, puzzles they feature are quite similar and, as a rule, have something to do with symmetry to be solved. Puzzles are activated at the grids you can find around locations.  There are two modes in the game. In the walking mode you can explore the island, and in the path-drawing mode you don’t move and focus on solving puzzles. While the game’s plot is quite unclear and The Witness doesn’t give many details on the hero’s background, its key feature is the visual aspect combined with music, inspiring quotes you can hear and the meditative tone of the game in general. The game features several visual illusions based on depth perception.

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atmosphericfirst-personexplorationcolorfulstory-richrelaxingmysterydifficultsurvivalopen-worldwalking-simulatorsandbox

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Frequently asked questions about The Witness

How long does it take to beat The Witness?

The main story of The Witness takes approximately 4 hours to complete. Total completion time may vary depending on playstyle and difficulty.

What genre is The Witness?

The Witness is a Indie, Adventure, Puzzle game, released in 2016.

Is The Witness worth playing?

The Witness is a indie game from 2016. Fans of this game often enjoy titles like The Talos Principle, The Unfinished Swan, Stray. You can add it to your backlog on ivoo.pl to track it.

What games are similar to The Witness?

Games similar to The Witness include: The Talos Principle, The Unfinished Swan, Stray, ABZU, FEZ, The Swapper, What Remains of Edith Finch, The Long Dark, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, INSIDE. You can discover and track all of them on ivoo.pl.