The Witness

4.7
Challenging Puzzles

Genres

AdventureFirst PersonPuzzle

Features

Single Player

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles.

These puzzles 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 respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There are over 500 puzzles but no filler; each of the puzzles brings its own new idea into the mix. So, this is a game full of ideas.

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4.7

This game features

Challenging Puzzles

The Witness Ratings & Reviews

Game Informer

by Joe Juba

9.3 / 10

Fun and inventive challenges wait around every corner. If you want something more than a barrage of thoughtful puzzles (like a story), you should look elsewhere

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IGN

by Chloi Rad

10 / 10

The Witness has a power and pull that carried me throughout the more than 40 hours it took to complete it for the first time, and that, even now, beckons me back to confront the mysteries I left unsolved. Its graceful combination of tangible goals, obscurity, and freedom creates ample opportunity for small victories and grand revelations alike. For the most part, its themes weave themselves beautifully throughout the gorgeous world and wide variety of puzzles, but even when it breaks subtlety in favor of a more heavy-handed approach to exposition, it never detracts from the truly fulfilling moments The Witness offers in terms of solving its physical puzzles and unlocking its deepest mysteries.

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Eurogamer

by Oli Welsh

Recommended

Big, beautiful and rewarding, Jon Blow's enigmatic puzzle epic is virtuoso game design - and only a fraction too clever for its own good.

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The Witness System Requirements

Minimum

Recommended

OS

Windows 7

OS

Windows 7

Processor

1.8GHz

Processor

2.4GHz

Memory

4 GB RAM

Memory

8 GB RAM

Graphics

Intel HD 4000 series

Graphics

GeForce 780

DirectX

Version 10

DirectX

Version 10

Storage

5 GB available space

Storage

5 GB available space

Languages Supported

  • English

  • French

  • Italian

  • German

  • Spanish

  • Polish

  • Portuguese

  • Russian

  • Arabic

  • Japanese

  • Simplified Chinese

  • Traditional Chinese

  • Korean

  • Hungarian

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