

However, this sense of immersion, storytelling, and discovery doesn’t last long.

Cyan Worlds makes use of old-school full motion video and real actors as NPCs to help deliver the premise. The first hour of the adventure features decent pacing, builds a sense of intrigue, and delivers puzzles in a fairly clear manner. Yet while this new release from Cyan Worlds might respect the intellect of its players, it does not respect their time.Īfter being abducted by aliens in the opening sequence, players find themselves on a strange world nearly devoid of life, but brimming with tiny buttons to push and switches to flip. Obduction follows in the footsteps of games like Myst and Riven as an open-world, environmental puzzle game that requires an attention to detail and a saint’s patience from its audience. LOW A third of the game is loading screens.
