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Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
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Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
Viewfinder is a puzzle-platformer, puzzle and first-person game
developed by Sad Owl Studios
and published by Thunderful Publishing.
Released on July 18th 2023 is available only on Windows.
It has received 8,505 reviews of which 8,015 were positive and 490 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 7.49€ on Steam with a 70% discount, but you can find it for 5.27€ on Eneba.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i5-9600K / AMD Ryzen 5
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 970
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 20 GB available space
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So..... consider this a lukewarm recommendation, worth a look only at a 70% discount or higher. Viewfinder is the epitome of marketability. Anyone can watch a few seconds of a trailer and be impressed and intrigued. Beyond that "whooa!" first impression, the game is all sizzle and no steak. It's short. The worldbuilding is dead on arrival. As a silent protagonist, you quickly realize that you're in a simulated world and that the people who created it were working on some kind of problem. You seem to be here to try to piece together what they were doing. There's one 'voice' who talks to you from outside the simulation, and then notes and recordings of three people who used to spend time within the simulation and who built it, and then some sort of AI that lives in the simulation. All of this falls flat on its face. It's dull & uninspired & zombies along following well-worn videogame conventions. I began feeling sorry for the voiceactors who worked on this, which tells you a lot. Some OK puzzles, some cool tech. Over-delivers on possibility and under-delivers on cleveness and fun. In a way, you are buying the pitch for a game they didn't make.
While the storytelling was not that great and the characters where not very well written (except for the cat ofc) Viewfinder is a very satisfying game. The puzzles are very intuitive and rather on the easy side, the design is great and the experimentation even greater. It's interesting to find ways to solve the puzzles with as few steps as possible especially towards the end. Will always remember Cait fondly!
This is on the edge of the recommend. The mechanics are sheer brilliance. Taking photos and replicating the scenery lets you do impressive things like even "cross section" the level. The gameplay & puzzles are good. Some optional challenges give you the best examples of meaty puzzle solving and maybe there could have been more challenges and exploration of the mechanics, but it's good overall. The aesthetics are nice, interesting and cool levels. Straightforward, but nice relaxing vibes. So what's the problem? Well, the problem is that the dev team clearly spent all their energy making the game mechanics and puzzles and environment... and the actual storyline feels like a last minuite addition to give all the levels some context. The problem is, whoever they delegate the writing to, was nowhere near as good at their job as the people making the gameplay mechanics. Firstly, the theme is totally wrong. It could have been about "memory", "nostagia", "art" or "remixing", all which fit the theme of taking photographs that come to life. Instead it's about "climate change" which is way too heavy of a theme for this sort of game, especially with the "save the world" element added in The premise is that you're in a virtual world to find past technology that you can use to fix the real world and... this is just dumb. The audio logs and diaries of the scientists in the simulation clearly showed they were spending a lot of energy on solving this problem, so if they had succeeded they obviously would have released their findings and our protagonists wouldn't have been in the situation in the first place. What's more, while using a simulation for research purposes makes sense, it seems a bit deluded to spend huge amounts of time developing a hyperrealistic simulation of the real world, then spend all your time researching solutions in the simulation without even momentarily popping out to make sure your solutions work in the real world too. It also really doesn't explain why the camera mechanics are such a big part of the world... or the teleport pads for that matter. The biggest problem with the plot is that it has such a downer ending. While there's a tiny bit of (nonsensical) hope at the end, the fact the moral of the game seems to be maybe we shouldn't bother trying to fix climate change is incredibly depressing and somewhat harmful. To add to this, the game ends with you effectively killing a cat and destroying the simulation, just to get back to the real word. This is insanely bleak, and very contrived. However, I want to give special hatred to the last level. Not the level itself, it was fine and I got it after a few times, but the HINTS! After one failed attempt, a thing in the top right of the screen popped up telling me I could get hints in the game menu. I don't mind having accessible hints, but I detested having the game suggest this through a notification, especially after failing a level only once. I spent a while struggling to through the settings menu trying to turn off hints, but despite a bunch of accessibility settings, there was no setting to toggle this. It was frustrating, like the game was condescending to me. I was trying to get in the mood for the final big challenge of the game and its story, and instead this immersion shattering event kept taking me out it. And then it got worse. I start the level, only to see full screen message box pop up on my screen effectively telling me how to solve the level. My fury was immessurable. I play puzzle games to solve puzzles, not to be told how to solve puzzles! I'm insulted that developers felt the need to throw hints on my face and not even give me the option to turn them off. This isn't an action game with puzzle elements that some players want to skip, this is a puzzle game. Throwing up hints ruins the core gameplay unless players specifically ask for them. And the worst part is, the final level wasn't even that hard and I was making steady progress. I would have had a fine time playing it if the game had just let me play it, instead the overriding emotion from the final level of the game is anger, the developers hadn't trusted me to play the game they had made and I had paid money for. Why make a gameplay experience and then try to ruin it for the player the moment they experience any difficulty? And so that's my review of Viewfinder. Great mechanics, decent gameplay, alright puzzles though maybe a bit short, the writing sucks, and condescending and annoying hint system that seems to only kick in the final level.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Viewfinder is currently priced at 7.49€ on Steam.
Yes, Viewfinder is currently available at a 70% discount. You can purchase it for 7.49€ on Steam.
Yes, Viewfinder received 8,015 positive votes out of a total of 8,505 achieving an impressive rating of 9.13.
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Viewfinder was developed by Sad Owl Studios and published by Thunderful Publishing.
Yes, Viewfinder is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Viewfinder is not playable on MacOS.
No, Viewfinder is not playable on Linux.
This information about Viewfinder is not available yet.
This information about Viewfinder is not available yet.
No, Viewfinder does not support VR.
Viewfinder is a single-player game.
No, Viewfinder does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Viewfinder does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Viewfinder does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Viewfinder 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.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Viewfinder.
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Sad Owl Studios
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