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A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
Obduction is a adventure, puzzle and exploration game
developed and published by Cyan Inc..
Released on August 24th 2016 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Dutch and Portuguese - Brazil.
It has received 3,851 reviews of which 3,070 were positive and 781 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.
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System requirements
These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1 64 bit or newer
- Processor: CPU Intel i5-2500 equivalent or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce 660 GTX w/1GB / AMD 7700 series w/1GB equivalent or better
- Storage: 20 GB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC
- Additional Notes: For VR: NVIDIA 970 or AMD 480 (equivalent or greater)
MacOS
- OS: Sierra 10.12.4
- Processor: Intel CPU capable of 4 or more threads
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000, Iris 5000 & 6000 family w/1 GB VRAM or better. Most Macs from 2012 on.
- Storage: 20 GB available space
- Additional Notes: MacOS 10.12.4 (or later) is required to play Obduction. Any MacOS versions prior to this may result in random crashes. Metal support is required to play Obduction.
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I'm 68 and the only games I was ever interested in were the Cyan games. I found MYST a few years after it's release, but all the others I literally had to get when they were actually first released. I have to admit I had to have hint help on all of them, being old and no computer experience previously. I have to give kudos to the gamers that actually beat these games on their own, my guess they started as young children. On my first attempt at Obduction I was pretty lost, as basically a novice at critical game thinking. I barely made it halfway before I got so stuck back in 2016, that I couldn't fine the hint/answer to a puzzle, so I quit the game. then this year we decided to go through all the games again for brain training to keep sharp. We did pretty well, but still needed some help, but not as bad as the first time around. With Obduction it really kicked out butts, and it was disheartening to see some had gotten through in 8 to 12 hours. Even with help we were at it for 95 hours! Yes, 95! but most of it was my tenacity in trying to figure things out, and being hampered by missing many small details, that real gamers learned to look for long ago. I highly recommend Obduction! Totally a thinking game, one does need a lot of patience if you aren't a big gamer.
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Look, you might need to use a walkthrough on a point or two, especially if taking long breaks between playing. Some clues and paths are... not obvious. But this game is beautiful and worth the effort.
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I really enjoyed Obduction's world building and plot, and most of the puzzles. If you like Myst-like games you're almost certain to like Obduction. It does have some issues: The swapping mechanic can lead to a lot of waiting and made one puzzle I otherwise found pretty clever feel very tedious. Similarly I was sometimes was frustrated by how long it took to navigate around. Another problem, as I saw it, is that the game sometimes unblocks or blocks areas in response to events without giving any indication that it has done so, which ultimately caused me have to look up how to get to an end game location. You will also probably get the bad ending at first, not because you can't tell you're headed into the bad ending, but because it has been so long since you interacted with the thing that would lead to the good ending that you've probably forgot all about it. It's like 95% really good though.
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Even though I was a bit too young to play Myst when it first went huge, I watched my dad play it on our Windows 98 when I was little. Flash forward to 2008, and I asked for a DVD-ROM drive for Christmas so that I could play Myst IV: Revelation on our Windows 2001. I was late to the game, but I was obsessed. I was also a teenager and kinda stupid, so a lot of the puzzles were way over my head, but luckily there were websites that had text walkthroughs (YouTube was an infant and Let's Plays hadn't even been conceived). Obduction was a lot of fun. I know it has mixed reviews, but it was great to play a game that FELT like Myst after so long of only having the same 5.5 games to occasionally revisit. The worldbuilding here was so beautiful, and it was cool seeing mo-cap characters like Myst used to have, now that we're in an age of CGI realistic NPC models. I also really enjoyed this because it was kind of easier than any of the Myst games, and even though I'm older and smarter, I'm also busier and tireder. Obduction gets two thumbs up from me. I hope the team at Cyan keeps making new games again, instead of another from-the-ground-up remake of a Myst game (as of writing this, the Riven remake came out a few months ago, and I had replayed it on Steam just last year).
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I have, for a VERY long time, been a fan of Cyan games, Myst, Riven etc... all great games, so I expected a lot from this game and I was not disappointed. As expected, a beautifully imagined world with some very complex and obscure puzzles to solve, and as we come to expect from Cyan games, very little in the way of hand-holding... there are hints... kind of, but nothing to actually give away exactly how a puzzle is to be solved, you have to actually think about it, and I love that about Cyan's games. All the clues are there, you just have to look and read everything to find the answers. The only real problems with this game come in the VR implementation. For the most part it works fine, but it has its problems. Certain controls don't work properly, for example: There is a small cart you have to drive about, sometimes when you get in the cart, you are seated 45 degrees off from the direction you were facing, you can rotate 180 degrees to drive it backwards, but then the movement controls don't work by VR interaction, you have to use the thumbsticks, which kind of defeats the object of the VR implementation. Also, when starting a NEW GAME in VR, setting the options before starting does nothing, and all the options reset, so you then have to pause and change your options again. There are some issues when playing with gamepad also, but not nearly as many: Some of the controls don't work unless you are standing in a very specific orientation to whatever it is you are interacting with, but it is still playable. It is an excellent game with an excellent story and it is well worth playing, it's just a shame the VR aspect is so poorly implemented. So I would suggest just simply playing with mouse and keyboard, as using a gamepad does also have some minor issues.
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Obduction is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.
Obduction is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 28.99€ on Steam.
Obduction received 3,070 positive votes out of a total of 3,851 achieving a rating of 7.72.
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Obduction was developed and published by Cyan Inc..
Obduction is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Obduction is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Obduction is not playable on Linux.
Obduction is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Obduction. Explore additional content available for Obduction on Steam.
Obduction does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Obduction does not support Steam Remote Play.
Obduction is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Online players
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Developer
Cyan Inc.
Publisher
Cyan Inc.
Release
24 Aug 2016
VR
VR Supported
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