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Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Observation is a indie, adventure and space game developed by No Code and published by Devolver Digital.
Released on May 21st 2020 is available only on Windows in 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Italian.

It has received 4,729 reviews of which 3,711 were positive and 1,018 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 6.12€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for 1.34€ on Instant Gaming.


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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 x64
  • Processor: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 x64 OS Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 x64 CPU Intel Core i3-3240 (2 * 3400) or equivalent | AMD FX-4300 (4 * 3800) or equivalent
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce GT 640 (2048 MB) | Radeon HD 7750 (2048 MB)
  • Storage: 12 GB available space

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March 2025
I recommend Observation purely for its unique premise, atmosphere, and suspenseful mystery, and not for its gameplay, which I thought was mostly tedious. Watch the full review here: https://youtu.be/zgD4jaU5feQ
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Dec. 2024
Excellent, Beautiful, Immersive. Gripping Narrative. Believable near future hard sci-fi that can stand toe to toe with Stanislaw Lem. Instills a great desire for the betterment of humanity. Wonderful voice acting, great pacing. Interesting puzzles that remind you of the good days of Riven without being too obtuse. The game requires your attention which fosters more immersion. If you're stuck, breathe, all of the answers are logically in front of you; this is not moon logic. The controls are better than reviewers led me to believe; however, a controller is strongly recommended. TECHNICAL PROBLEMS: To launch the game I had to set Compatibility Mode to "Windows 8" and to get more than 6 fps, I had to use DXVK to change the API to Vulkan (drag and drop 2 files in directory(dxgi.dll and d3d11.dll) - easy) 21:9 Ultrawide Support: Game does not support, but ROSE has two fixes linked on Observations' PCGamingWiki page. One can remove cinematic letterboxing, but it returns midway through and re enables towards the end. I want more.
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Oct. 2024
Very nice puzzle story. Quick note : All can be done with a mouse/keyboard but the very last operation. I had to plug a joypad just to finish the game.
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Sept. 2024
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu 끝없는 암흑의 바다 한복판에서.
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April 2024
Inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey (tt0062622), Coherence (tt2866360), The Cloverfield Paradox (tt2548396), Constellation (tt19395018). Observation (tt9106212) is top-notch Sci-fi thriller itself. As “the guy in the chair”, you help Emma Fisher overcoming obstacles, by gathering information, hacking computer systems, and looking for useful objects on international space station (zero gravity, ofc). Although the camera movement is slow, however, it does a good job of retro future vibe. You have to expect that it isn’t an action game anyway.
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Observation
7.6
3,711
1,018
Online players
17
Developer
No Code
Publisher
Devolver Digital
Release 21 May 2020
Platforms
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