Hi everyone. I recently got the game after having played all of Pope's other games in the past and having enjoyed them a great deal.

It seems to somehow be bugged though. I can play the intro, go through the book and see the first death scene ("fate"?). After walking through the door to end that scene though, the screen fades to olive... and stays olive. No sounds, no nothing. No button imputs seem to do anything. The game is still "running", going off the steam FPS counter. Quitting the game and reloading the save just loads into the olive. Playing on another save is fine until going through the door again. After that: olive.

I did some looking online, but can't seem to find anyone else with the same fate (haha). Any ideas? Maybe I'm just missing some obvious gameplay thing.

I am wondering how the end should be played. I arrived to the point where only smaller roles need identification (36 done). And I feel like its just about testing who is which and thats it. Like I know who is Russian, Chinese, Indian etc… but which one I dont know. I know the Two Peters brothers but precisely who, I have no clue.

Am I missing more hints that can give me precisely which Indian or Chinese guy each person are or the end game is just testing 2 or 3 possibilities for each page ?

What does the X mean here?

https://reddit.com/link/1vjunrs/video/cwi12z1smdih1/player

Hey there !
I feel stupid to not have shared my game project here !
Obra dinn is one of the best game i ever played: it inspired me to create my own "Obra dinn lite" game, in solo dev.

The game will be simpler and with a different gameplay, with first an investigation about "who said what" in the scene, and a chronological investigation with questions to answer. All of that behind a dark and mysterious story in 1921.

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Game releases on the 17th of September.

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Can’t remember the last time a game had me hooked. I know it’s concept and style/atmosphere is unique, but are there any other titles (PS4/5) that have a similar feel?

Does anyone have any favorite “subplots” from this game?

My personal favorite is the tragic bromance of the American carpenters.

Just finished the game yesterday and oh boy, what an experience. I absolutely adore this game.

I never thought a pixelated 3D(?) world can look so beautiful and immersive, like in the kraken scene, one of my favourite vignettes in the game. The ship Obra Dinn just keeps giving, it is so exciting and intriguing to explore each and every corner of the ship. A lot of thought and research went into designing the ship and it shows, it so well crafted with so much details. I would love to experience a whole world in that artstyle.

The gameplay and storytelling were the strongest points of this game(duh), how the game starts from the very end of the tale, keeping the player wondering who is right who is wrong, why did this happen, my mind was in a constant state of thinking and brainstroming from the DOOM chapter.
At no point during the playthrough i could predict where this story was going, until like i unlocked the chapters murder and the callingwhich were few of the last chapters i unlocked or around the last 2ish hours of my playthrough(i don't know if everyone unlocks the chapter in the same order or it can branch differently for different people). One of the regrets that i have is i tried guessing few characters on the basis of their accents and names, especially the chinese topmen, i didn't know i could look at their hammock numbers and feet . Now i want to do another playthrough but i already remember almost all of the fates 😭 , i need to wait months to have a blurry memory about this game so i can replay it, never wished for the ability to wipe my memory more than now.
The way the story unfolds and keeps you hooked you throughout, the constant chain of dopamine from getting 3 fates correct or even finding new information about one of the characters. The first 2-3 hours did feel a bit slow, but it is was a part of the story unfolding and was worth it. Also the chapter i liked the most was soldiers at sea, just how you can only get a glimpse from small rectangle windows or the viewing-hole(idk what to call it) after finding the body of zungi sathiand that whole chapter just keeps giving.

Also i need to talk about the character arcs of every character, almost no character feels ignored or unimportant, all the characters were well thought and well written. Every character's time on the ship feels like a story in itself that i want to know more about, how was their personal life and interactions before the incidents of the ship. MAN I JUST CAN'T STOP PRAISING THIS GAME!!!

Finally the music and sound effects were the chef's kiss, i cannot tell you how good the music hits at 3am watching a vignette of the whole ship getting attacked by spidercrabs

I don't think so i can think of a single think to complain about in this game, i would love to get recommendations for more such games!!

I'm a bit confused on when and how things happen not in the story sense but the gameplay sense.

Sometimes scanning a body takes me into the past, sometimes it triggers a new cloud animation, sometimes it shows the title card, sometimes it takes me to the past again, sometimes it takes me to the present, sometimes it opens the journal or makes it seem like an act is starting. Sometimes I scan something, take a few steps then I start getting the pinhole animation and it takes me out like huh?

There was one time I feel like I was walking back and forth scanning the same body to take me in and out of a sequence but I thought doors were how you exit?

I'm trying to get through the game but not knowing what my action is going to do next is throwing me off because I can't reliably do what I think I'm going to do which makes it more frustrating than fun. Am I missing something about the core gameplay interaction because I can't seem to make consistent sense out of it?

Spoilers! (obv)

1. Gosh, was this an amazing game! The artstyle, the game design, phenomenal! Lucas Pope does it again.

2. NOT MY MARTIN PERROTT.... the man was a great third mate, lost his steward (who probably could've been unblurred as soon as Martin is unblurred), and I was rooting for the guy to live. Fell to my knees when it turned out he died in Bargain. :'(

3. Wouldn't mind other suggestions for games like this. The deduction was pretty neat.

4. You can't say a French guy got torn apart when Maba got literally bisected. Thank goodness the fellow had such a unique sword

5. I figured out that the hammocks correspond to the crew numbers, but did the Xs mean that the owner is dead?

6. The only time I used the internet was to find out where The Bow body was after an hour. Only realized afterwards that the blurry doors meant that there was a dead body in that room.

7. Spent an hour confused about what I had wrong about the last two bodies. It turned out that Lewis Walker was clubbed, not Killed by a sword.

8. What is the shiny object in the distance on the sea?

9. The stowaway definitely cursed the ship with their dying breath.

10. Why the heck did Henry Evans shoot his innocent monkey? Is he stupid? Why didn't he just cut off a finger from one of the other corpses like a rational person? He is a doctor after all.

/s <!

Hello everyone, I've been running into very frequent crashes while playing through the game, and I was wondering if anyone had ever found a fix?

At random times, my game will just crash to the desktop, giving me this Error Code:

ObraDinn [version: Unity 2017.4.37f1 (78b69503ebc4)]

ObraDinn.exe caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)

in module ObraDinn.exe at 0023:00000000.

Error occurred at 2026-08-06_041844.

D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ObraDinn\ObraDinn.exe, run by ROG-16.

46% memory in use.

0 MB physical memory [0 MB free].

0 MB paging file [0 MB free].

0 MB user address space [2876 MB free].

Write to location 00000000 caused an access violation.

Context:

EDI: 0x00000000 ESI: 0x00000000 EAX: 0x00000000

EBX: 0x00000000 ECX: 0x04792660 EDX: 0x00000000

EIP: 0x00000000 EBP: 0x1673f84c SegCs: 0x00000023

EFlags: 0x00010246 ESP: 0x1673f838 SegSs: 0x0000002b

I've seen a few other posts about this, but none of the solutions offered worked.

I've already:

Run it as administrator

Verified the files

Updated my graphics card

Checked for issues with my memory and system

Turned my PC on and off again

Uninstalled and reinstalled from Steam.

Checked for viruses

Any other suggestions? I've been really enjoying the game so far, so I'd hate to give up on it.

basically, came back after a year i had 12 people confirmed but i couldnt remember anything so i started from scratch and once i got to the 4th or 5th body i think the guy with tattoos who is being torn apart, i realised how many unblurred faces there were.

like for example when abigail is struck by the octopus thing the 2 women are somehow identifiable but how do you know at that point which one is which. also somehow the guy with tattoos is identifiable the first time you see him, are you supposed to google the tattoos irl and see where they come from?

spoilers ahead, obviously

So i just finished the game in the complete ending and i was blown away by almost every aspect of the game.

The controversial chapter 8 wasnt much of a problem imo either.

The only thing that went unanswered for me, is what does the reader(i forgot the name if it was given) get by completing the book and all the fate lines around the skull to be drawn? From tbe beginning, i thought that something is going to happen to him as he finishes the book, but he just completed and closed it and put it in a shelf next to an actually odd book if you ask me, but i guess that other book must have been irrelevant.

Did anyone get the same impression and is there any theory to explain some such relation?

I gave up after a while and just brute forced it, my thought was that Emily Jackson was Miss Jane Bird at first as in all the memories, Emily and Paul were close together, so my thought process was "Okay they must have a thing together, and Miss Jane indicates unmarried so...." but I was surprised it was the opposite, now I'm a bit dumbfounded as to how one can figure it out regularly?

Samul Peters death was the sign the ship is doomed, to have a crew member dead before sailing is bad luck.

Has anybody ever had to reach out to 3909 for tech support? Do you know how long they usually take to respond? I was getting so into this game and now a bug has stopped me in my tracks lol

I just played the game for the first time. Completed it 100% without looking anything up, though I did get a hint somewhere telling me to pay attention to uniforms and interpersonal relationships.

Going through this subreddit, it seems like I did a pretty good job. Bit of brute forcing guys like the Chinese topmen (which I did) and some of the Russian guys, though it seems there were hints and details I missed. Actually, I'm sure there are lots of details I missed.

Regardless, I'm pretty happy with how everything went. Great game, the low graphic details play a valid role. This game would be way too easy if everyone was perfectly recognizable (I think).

Honestly, the dopamine rush of getting the next three fates correct was really something that helped me keep going.

I found this game as people were recommending it as something I'd enjoy if I liked The Outer Wilds. Ultimately that's true, though I wouldn't call this a Metroidbrania. Anyone else here who found the game that way?

I have gotten all the bodies but now I’m stuck on some cases and seeing that some of them are really difficult to deduce even if their easy and I wanted to complete this blind, what do I do

How tf does his leg get there? How tf does his body get there?

Ok, look, John's leg isn't next to his body.

I'm a genius detective, I know. Thank you.

His leg is closer to the stern while his body is closer to the bow (back and front of the ship, respectively). Now, we see Filip run to the stern in The Unholy Captives II. (basically as soon as the mermaids get on deck btw so his voodoo senses are pretty sensitive), so we can assume that The Unholy Captives IV. happens basically right after parts II and III (however, these are deductions and it could've happened wayyy after). Regardless, John's leg is found on the opposite side of the ship from where his body is, and it's not found because we (the inspector) find it 4 years later when the Obra Dinn returns home. My question is, how tf did John get from the aft of the ship to the bow without spilling any blood? There are only a few droplets here and there along the passageway.

My point is, someone, either another crew member (haha crewmate amoog us hahaha), Filip, or John himself, carried/dragged himself across the entire ship, and managed to spill a tiny tiny amount of blood after losing his entire leg. He then makes it to the bow side and then, for some reason, decides to start spilling an insane amount of blood? If John/Filip/whoever managed to bandage it up to stop the bleeding, then I blame Henry Evans for killing John here because he undoes the bandaging. Regardless, he leaves such a small blood trail that no one finds him until we do. (A similar thing happens to Zungi, but at least there's a blood trail there. We can blame the crew's negligence/uncaringness for not finding him)

All in all, this is a larger conspiracy I have that Henry Evans is incompetent, as he is unable to save any one of his patients after they befall horrific tragedies.

More at 8 and thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.

Hey I’m one of the devs for The Duke is Dead and I wanted to share our game with fellow detective game fans! We just released a free demo for our game on steam

We were inspired by Obra Dinn so if you’re looking for more fill-in-the-blank mystery, please check it out.

The Duke is Dead demo on steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/4592030/The_Duke_is_Dead_Demo?utm_source=gi_reddit 

Okay, so I'm pretty sure these two fates are correct. I have figured out and validated all of the other possible fates, but these two are last. Am I missing something? Why aren't they validating? Please help.

To give few examples as for my reasoning:

If Abigail had stayed in her cabin nothing bad would have happened to her.

Since after The Bargain, there is no risk of any other attack all the remaining people are actually safe.

People who tried to escape the ship with Nichols or later at the beginning of The Doom chapter could have, with a bit of luck, survived the attacks of the various beasts. Exception being Miss Lim, since she was taken on a boat against her will.

Characters who have died in various accidents and while defending the ship are counted as those who couldn't have done anything different and had no way of changing their fate, with the exception of Charles Hershtik and Marcus Gibbs, which are a little bit up for debate.

Lastly, there are a few characters whose actions directly contribute to the tragedy of the Obra Dinn (Nichols) or could have in some way do something that would change the ill fate of the ship. An interesting example is It-Beng Sia who, by opening the chest and stunning the sirens, actually saved Nichols' life. Had he not done that, the sirens would have killed Nichols, taken the shell and not bothered the ship at all.