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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 in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Arabic and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 8,143 reviews of which 7,673 were positive and 470 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam with a 50% discount.

The Steam community has classified Viewfinder into these genres:

Puzzle-Platformer Puzzle First-Person Singleplayer Abstract Psychological Surreal Adventure Physics Action-Adventure Dark Humor Atmospheric Narration Exploration 3D Platformer Colorful Story Rich Platformer Stylized Retro

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System requirements

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Windows

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

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

I'll try to be concise with my view. The game is beautiful and the puzzle mechanic is interesting, however around half-way through the game you start feeling that something is missing, that something is complexity. The game does introduce new elements to the mechanic in each chapter, however there is no increase to complexity, in fact closer to the end it becomes more simple. It does feel that the devs either ran out of creativity, or feared to scare the public away with harder puzzles. All in all the game is good and is worth playing, but it is no where near Portal or Talos Principle. A story, that is very cliche and as equally poorly done is another negative side of the game, albeit easily solvable with tuning out. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/7279488-One-Grumpy-Russian/]One Grumpy Russian score 7/10 - cute puzzle game with interesting mechanic that, while engaging, does not live to its full potential Fore more grumpy reviews follow me as a curator at [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/7279488-One-Grumpy-Russian/]One Grumpy Russian

Aug. 2024

The game was good, probably like a 6-7/10 I'd say. I could tell it was inspired by Antichamber, one of my favorite games of all time, but this one feels like it lets its environment design and storytelling take priority over its gameplay. Also, they REPEATEDLY said that sound travels faster than light, from a character who's supposed to be a scientist. Is that a joke? Is that supposed to say something about how their world differs from ours? Part of me believes that somehow they actually flipped them around, but honestly that seems too basic of a thing to get wrong. Were they talking about specific dense media where sound waves travel unusually fast and light travels unusually slow? I really have no idea what that was about and every time they said it I was confused.

July 2024

A good puzzle game which could be 100% improved by the removal of all dialogue.

July 2024

One of the most innovative puzzle games, similar to Superliminal. Puzzles are not too hard, but very fun to solve.

April 2024

I think this review is going to sound a bit negative, so the first thing I want to make clear is that I don’t think Viewfinder is a bad game, I just think its been massively overrated by some of the reviews and awards. While the main gameplay mechanic of using photographs to rewrite parts of the environment is unique, the actual puzzle design is very basic. Most of the solutions are completely obvious, especially for an experienced puzzle gamer like myself. Need to get from platform A to platform B, but they’re separated by a bottomless pit? Take a photo of a wall and use it to create a bridge. Button needs to be powered by 2 batteries but you’ve only got 1? Take a photo of the battery to create a copy. Exit teleporter is upside down on the ceiling? Take a photo, rotate it 180 degrees and place it on the floor. Even though you have the freedom to place photos anywhere, the simplest option is usually correct. And there are a couple of ways that the puzzle design prevents the player from doing anything really creative. Most puzzles give you a limited amount of film, which restricts how many photos you can take (usually 1 to 5 photos per puzzle). Meanwhile, the exit teleporters are usually powered by a switch which is connected by a long wire, and if you break the connection, it won’t work anymore. So you’ll either have to stand in a specific place to ensure that everything you need fits into the photo frame, or place a photo in a specific position to avoid breaking something important. Later puzzles introduce a few new mechanics. Blue coloured objects are fixed in place, and can’t be copied or overwritten by photos. Cameras which operate on a timer allow the player to take a photo of themselves, which can then be used to place yourself past obstacles. And some cameras destroy what you take a photo of, effectively changing the “copy and paste” mechanic to “cut and paste”. But because Viewfinder is really short, none of these mechanics are ever explored fully or combined together in really complex puzzles. It only took me 4 hours to complete the main story, and I’ve just got 3 more optional puzzles to solve. This feels like the first half of a really good game. This is also a rare example of a game that would actually be better without the story. There’s no proper introduction, so I have no idea who the characters are or what they’re actually trying to achieve by solving the puzzles, while the dialogue and voice acting is kind of annoying.

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-50% 24.99€ 12.49€

9.1

7,673

470

Online players

111

Developer

Sad Owl Studios

Publisher

Thunderful Publishing

Release 18 Jul 2023

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