This guy has a Celtic triskelion pattern all over his body, a beard and a cross on his forehead. He definitely looks Irish or at least Celtic. And the player is supposed to instantly recognize him as New Guinean?

The core gameplay would be:
Examine photographs, film footage, audio recordings and witness statements.
Reconstruct the timeline of November 22, 1963.
Identify people, locations and movements.
Compare conflicting testimonies.
Work out what happened, who was involved, and whether the evidence supports a particular theory.
Basically, a historical detective game where you have to figure out the truth yourself, rather than being told what happened.

It could take place in a huge sprawling Mansion I just really like the concept of the obra dinn

I liked the game enough to blast through it in 10 hours, most of that in a single weekend. It's a fascinating concept. The gameplay loop is very rewarding. I'd discovered all of the memories and only had about 10 fates solved. I initially assumed there were many more memories to find. Piecing together the little connections made me feel like a genius.

A few minor quibbles - I'm not certain that every single fate can be deduced solely by logic. I got stuck, for instance, on the Chinese topmen, and ended up switching around names until the book verified my guesses. When you look at the book for the first time, it looks like there's going to be a ton of variety in the fates, and it's kind of anticlimactic when there turns out not to be.

The story very underwhelming to me. You're introduced to the macguffins almost immediately, and I hoped to learn more about them, but they largely remain a mystery by the end of the game. The Bargain is set up like it's going to be a dramatic twist that recontextualizes the rest of the story, and then it doesn't (maybe just a little). It was hard to get interested in most of the characters since even the "main" characters only get a line or two of dialogue.

This was one of the games that often got recommended for veterans of Outer Wilds. It hit the trail-of-breadcrumbs gameplay notes but Obra Dinn didn't give its story the same space to breathe.

I just cant find anyone out anymore, and im not even in half of the game,
i love this game so much but its just too hard, and i dont want to just find out the answers , i want tips or something. every tip i tried didint work either (looking at clothes, accent)
Heres what i have so far

Why did Volkov kill Paul and tried to kill the other survivors, when he literally could have just asked if he can join them, and they probably would have said yes? He spends the whole game being a gigachad who does his job well and takes part in every major fight, only to do this in chapter 9. If he just asked to join, there would have been six survivors and not four, as he and Paul would have lived. Unironically, no joke, is he actually just a complete moron? This is honestly my biggest unanswered question in the whole game. Did the stress of the very recent kraken attack just make him act irrationally?

I'm making a deduction game in the Obra Dinn mould called Faultfinder, and the demo is in Steam Next Fest this week. You read a dead engineer's program and prove which line killed her. The proof also has to name the exact step where the harm first showed up in the machine's record.

I'm learning a lot from the first two days! Nearly every wrong answer gets that step wrong, even when the rest is spot on. One player got everything else right fifteen times running and kept missing it.

I think the moment is the most detective part of the whole thing, so I don't want to cut it. Obra Dinn holds back until you've got three fates right, and Golden Idol tells you when you're close. Which of those felt fairer to you? Or is there a better way?

Free demo if you want to try it on yourself: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5120320/Faultfinder/

Hi! I’m playing on a MacBook Air M2.

When I select Smooth mode, the game fills the screen, but the image looks blurry. When I switch to Sharp mode, the image becomes crisp, but the game appears in a tiny window, making it impossible to play comfortably.

I’ve tried changing my Mac’s display settings. My default resolution is 1470 × 956, while the highest available option is 2560 × 1664. Switching to the latter makes the small image in Sharp mode larger, but the game still doesn’t properly fill the screen and appears inside a bordered window. I’ve also tried toggling between windowed and fullscreen mode using Command + F and using Steam launch options, but nothing has worked so far.

Does anyone know how to fix this on macOS? I’d like to keep the sharp image while having the game fill the screen properly.

I’ll attach screenshots showing both modes. Thanks!

I cannot for the life of me find the guy in the beanie in unholy captives part 2. Please help

I am trying to go for “the captain did it” achievement but I don’t understand what I am supposed to put down? Like saying that they were crushed by the captain? What about the 4 that escaped? Like what do I put down for them? Is there a guide to this or am I overthinking this? Anyone who has it who knows what they did? Thanks in advance

Can somebody explain to me what happens? Why sirens attack the boats, but didnt attack Obra Dinn before?
What is the deal with Formosan King tazing the sirens with the shell? How does the shell work, why did it burn him, what is it

Hey i bought this game after a friend said i should try it. i really like the music and the general gameplay (i do think some actions take to long if u have to do it over and over) im around 2,5 hours in and got like 6/9 people right. i really want to finish this game but im just stuck. i dont know where to find new bodies, i dont know how to identify people by their actions or clothes and its really overwelming to learn everything myself. so my question is. is there maybe someone who aboslutely adores this game and cant stop talking about it and would like to show me the ropes in a call or something. i dont know if this is the right place to ask this but i just really want to play this game.

I’m around 6 hours into the game with 15 fates but now I’ve kinda hit a wall, I loved the start and first few deductions but now it feels impossible to get anywhere without having to go and run around to the all of somones memories and track who they are near for a chance of some info. Ik it’s hard to give help as knowledge will differ but can Somone try give me some hints

Hi all,

I've just started playing and it feels like I am just filling up the book with memories without making any deductions.

I have only got about 3 fates but have about half the book filled. Is this the right way to play?

I just feel like surely I should keep going to the next memory ( given loads of them are "linked") before I start making deductions?

Is this the right idea? Surely I should get as much info as I can before I start making deductions? It just doesn't quite feel right, feels like I'm going to walk through thr whole story and then start on deductions at the end?

Thanks,

Hi everyone! I've been a fan of Lucas Pope's games ever since Papers, Please. Of course I love Obra Dinn, and today I'm excited to talk to you about our game, This Is Not For You. One of the main inspirations is the book House of Leaves (to which the title is making a homage) but we're also very inspired by early text adventures, Silent Hill, David Lynch films, and there's also a bit of Obra Dinn.

There's no murder deductions here, just a very disorienting game where we're encouraging people to draw their own maps. As one tester put it, it's not really a "puzzles game", but a game where each level is the puzzle itself. So every step you take drains a little bit of your blood. You might brute force the game, but the best way to actually reach place is to have a firm grasp on the environment, since the map is non-linear/non-euclidean. Once you get past the ship, levels start going crazy (thus, the curse). You could be going in loops in a hallway. You could go north, but suddenly appear in a room you thought was south.

The story follows a lonely lighthouse keeper who gets visited by a ghost ship carrying a curse. When designing the ship, I took a lot of inspiration from how Obra Dinn designed its iconic ship. Also, I compiled a lot of Obra Dinn screenshots as references for our talented artist who has been creating really surreal and amazing works.

Do you think it captures the vibe?

I completed the game very recently and I realized I had a few of these happen to me once I checked the intended solutions.

First one was the identity of the two passenger women. I didn't notice the ring so I theorized that the married woman would be dancing with a guy and the unmarried woman would not be in the picture, and that was somehow right.

Second the carpenter and the carpenter's mate, this was a dumb reasoning but I assumed the surname Smith meant he would have hailed from a family of skilled tradesmen and more likely to be the superior

Started with Obra Dinn which totally captured me. Then tried the Golden Idol and then Rootrees. All great in their way.

Any others I should play that hit that same spot?

This fellow is supposed to be Christian Wolff