The Witness

Intricately interwoven puzzles

Made For

& Mac
Please check system requirements before purchasing. You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you. You don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you got here, but there's one thing you can do: explore the island in hope of discovering clues, regaining your memory, and somehow finding your way home. The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler; each of those puzzles brings its own new idea into the mix. So, this is a game full of ideas.

5 out of 5 stars

Too Much of the Same Note It’s just too much of the same puzzle—or slight variations of the same puzzle—over and over. Maybe it builds up to something more, but I stopped playing midway, bored by the repetition. None of the screenshots show that in each of those scenes you find numerous puzzles, similar to the game’s icon, that must be solved. The environment has nothing to do with the actual gameplay, other than giving you something to walk through on your way to the next set of puzzles. And I get that maybe I didn’t play it long enough … that some payout may have awaited me if I’d only been patient enough. But I lost interest. The developers didn’t create enough interest or diversity to make slogging through the same puzzle worth the effort.