Thekla, Inc·Released Jan 26, 2016·Single player
The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler; each of those puzzles brings its own new idea into the mix. So, this is a game full of ideas.
The Witness is one of the most fulfilling games I've played in yonks and it accomplishes a rare feat. It's varied, playful, elegant, mysterious, challenging, and intensely focused all at the same time.
Big, beautiful and rewarding, Jonathan Blow's enigmatic puzzle epic is virtuoso game design - and only a fraction too clever for its own good.
Find purpose and meaning on a mysterious island through its cleverly designed puzzles.
After the phenomenal critical success of Braid, Jonathan Blow's next game is a PS4 exclusive puzzler. But is it genre-defining genius or merely a pretentious puzzler?
Blow does it again. Exquisitely layered puzzles populate a world that will keep you guessing.
In both structure and detail, The Witness is an original, difficult, and ultimately rewarding puzzle game.
The Witness is uplifting and frustrating
While playing The Witness for this review, I wrote an email to its lead creator, Jonathan Blow. It was a moment of weakness. I feared that Blow’s
The core mechanic of The Witness is deviously simple, but the clever puzzles are among the best games can offer.
