Follow-up to his acclaimed game Braid, Jonathan Blow just announced the launch date for The Witness, his open-world puzzle game for PCs and PS4, in an intriguing and beautiful new trailer:
If you're catching a distinctly Myst vibe, there's a very good reason for that:
Inspired by Myst, The Witness has the player explore an open world island filled with a number of natural and man-made structures. The player progresses by solving puzzles which are based on interactions with mazes presented on panels around the island, though the rules and outcomes of solving the individual mazes are part of the puzzles that the player will have to come to learn themselves through both visual clues around the island and through audio logs that the player can find. Blow aimed to include as little instruction as possible, wanting to have players come to understand the rules of these puzzles for themselves and coming to moments of realization while exploring the island. The final game will have about 650 total puzzles to be solved, though the player is not required to solve them all to finish the game.
Also love the cello soundtrack by the incomparable Zoe Keating.
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