Return of the Obra Dinn is a challenging, unsettling mystery game. The ship left port in 1802 with a crew of fifty-one people. It turned up in 1807 adrift and empty, its sails torn. As an insurance ...

Return to Obra Dinn is one of those rare games where creativity isn’t just present—it defines the experience. From the very start, you realize this isn’t a conventional game. It doesn’t rely on triple ...

One thing about me is that I am a sucker for a good mystery. That’s why I’ve been delighted by the so-called “Metroidbrainia” genre rising to prominence. That label includes games like Return of the ...

Assuming Inkle aren't feeding us false intelligence, the Heaven's Vault developers are making a narrative deduction game ...

Return of the Obra Dinn puts the player in the first-person shoes of an insurance claims sleuth, looking to piece together a mystery. The ship aboard which the game takes place is a more expansive ...

I’ve talked about Return of the Obra Dinn before and how it is one of my all-time favorite games. But then an issue arises when you have something so unique in style and substance that there is no way ...

Here’s what we know we liked in October. Yes, one of them is more of a demo than a full game, but at three hours there’s ...

Ever since Return of the Obra Dinn in 2018, something has been broken in me. That game is amazing, one of my all time favourites, but it's also completely unreplayable, as most detective and puzzle ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Return of the Obra Dinn “Realistically I think it’ll take me around half a year,” Lucas Pope wrote four and a half years ago about his game Return of the ...

I was one of the smartest kids in my elementary school. This did not continue into middle or high school, and definitely not into college, where I was spectacularly average, but for a couple of years ...

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