Obduction

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 3,791 reviews of which 3,021 were positive and 770 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 10.14€ on Steam and has a 65% discount.

The Steam community has classified Obduction into these genres:

Adventure Puzzle Exploration Indie First-Person Mystery Surreal VR Walking Simulator Atmospheric Story Rich Open World Singleplayer Point & Click Nonlinear Casual Sci-fi Choices Matter FMV Survival

Media & Screenshots

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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.

Reviews

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Sept. 2024

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.

Sept. 2024

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).

Sept. 2024

Obduction was a really cool open world giant puzzle. There were a lot of head scratching moments and retracing your steps to see if you missed a clue. The start of the game is slow as there is no direction or what to look for. The community for this game was amazing from the reviews / walkthroughs / Discord dissucsions. Everyone helping you but not giving away the answers. If you are looking for a good game to kill some time and take on some confusing puzzles this is the game! I really loved this.

Aug. 2024

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.

Jan. 2024

As a huge fan of the Myst series, this game ended up satisfying my craving for another sequel to Myst. I must admit, I tried playing this game when it first came out, and I was not a fan. The beginning is certainly a slow start and it was not nearly as "clean" as Myst was in terms of the progression of the story line. However, once you get into it, the feeling of solving the puzzles is the exact same as Myst. If Myst is a 10, this game is a solid 6.5, but the more you play it, the better it gets. I would definitely recommend playing it (just after you've finished the other Myst sequels).

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