The Witness for Windows

The Witness is a computer video game of the puzzle genre, which was released on January 26, 2016 on Microsoft, PlayStation platforms. Later, the game is planned to be released on iOS. The game was announced back in 2008, and it took at least seven years to develop it. What did the players get as a result?

The Witness Review

The player will have access to a huge and completely open world for research, and this location will be a medium-sized island in the middle of the ocean. The main aspect of the player’s interaction with the game world will be solving puzzles. The game plot, as such, will not be, however, the player will be able to understand the game world much better by exploring it, finding and reading excerpts from books, listening to audio recordings also found during the trip.

It is interesting that the number of tips, as well as teaching moments in the game will be minimal. However, the number of puzzles in the game The Witness will be quite large, not less than 600. But the developers argue that it will not be necessary to solve all these puzzles to complete the game.

At the very beginning of the game, the player will be thrown into a very incomprehensible pipe and in order to get out of it, he will need to solve his first puzzle. Thus, the developers of The Witness hint that the game will make it clear from the very beginning that it will not be easy to pass it, and you need to work hard, strain your brains!

Then, exiting the pipe, a huge world opens up in front of the player, full of similar puzzles. The game world has a size of several tens of square kilometers and stone figures of people will be placed all over this world. They all went about their business as if they were just petrified.

It is also interesting that the game has several endings. The first is the usual Happy End, but there is also a secret one, but the developers do not disclose its details.

After the release of the game, many players gave it high scores. However, critics liked the game most of all, many of whom called the game a real masterpiece of the gaming industry, which is hinted at by good ratings.

The only thing you can blame this game for is the complexity of the puzzles, which take a lot of time to solve. Be prepared for the fact that some of your friends and comrades will not be able to withstand this, and impatient ones will simply leave her at the first failure.

This is how The Witness is – complex, but if you figure it out, incredibly interesting and mysterious.