Back in October 2018, we informed you about a new new sci-fi thriller game, called Observation. And even though Devolver had a Steam page for it, though it was not taking pre-orders like Deep Silver did with Metro Exodus, it has taken that store page down and revealed that the game will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store.
Observation takes players on a suspenseful journey to the outer reaches of space to uncover what exactly happened to astronaut Dr. Emma Fisher and the crew of the space station Observation. The captivating narrative unfolds through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M. Players assume the role of S.A.M. by operating the station’s control systems, cameras, and tools to assist Emma in discovering what is happening to the station and the vanished crew.
In addition, Devolver has revealed the game’s official PC system requirements via its Epic Games Store page. According to the specs, PC gamers will at least need an Intel Core i3-3240 CPU with 4GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GT640 or an AMD Radeon HD 7750.
Observation will release on May 21st!
| Minimum Requirements | Recommended |
| OS: 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 | CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K (4 * 3500) or equivalent | AMD Ryzen 3 2200G (4 * 3500) or equivalent |
| GPU: GeForce GT 640 (2048 MB) | Radeon HD 7750 (1024 MB) | GPU: GeForce GTX 960 (4096 MB) | Radeon RX 570 (8192 MB) |
| RAM: 4 GB | RAM: 8 GB |
| Storage: 12 GB | Storage: 12 GB |
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Time to review bomb Devolver Digital’s existing wares on Steam…
It won’t work any more remember. The review bombs will be marked as anomalous activity and be excluded from the overall review score on Steam.
Steam provides the option to opt out of said censorship.
Yeah but by default it is on. Most will be unaware of that option or won’t care to turn it on.
It’s unfortunate to say the least. The default setting should have been pro-consumer not pro-corporate.
The soy cartel has been pushing hard for the ability to delete reviews and for more censorship of game content, it would seem they have some friends working for Valve or someone who can pressure them.
To be fair there are millions of worthless trash 12 year olds revewing on Steam that should have their reviews deleted.
Literally anything that says 10/10 or anything like that or is one short sentence. Those are worthless trash that tell no one anything and were only put there for a popularity contest.
“worthless trash 12 year olds revewing on Steam”
Still worth more than any ‘professional’ review from PC Gamer, Polygon, IGN and Kotaku.
Good luck?
This has got to be the biggest stab in the back. I thought DD were a bunch of cool, down to earth people. They even took jabs at T2 for the lack of a PC RDR2 port, and then they go and pull this?, hell naw, screw them entirely.
I’m absolutely done with any dev/pub that ever tries to get chummy with the platform, because it’s obvious that they aren’t genuine enough to be legit.
Future, honest devs can place all the blame on the devs currently taking Epic’s bribes and lying through their teeth. History repeats itself once more, and no one has learned from it.
Oh noes, company with Woke Press Release turns out to care about money more than the bullshit they feed to the fans 🙁
???
oh, for sure.
Oh wait, you’re one of those Pro Epic dolts. Good to know, thanks to Disqus’s history.
I’m pro competition. Don’t like Epic’s pratices? take it up to Valve, they can put Epic in their place… or not, it’s not like they are lacking in money.
It’s like that cool old game eXperience112 but in space. Ohh Tencent Game Exclusive 🙁
it’s like saying you can’t watch this game on windows media player so what of it? you can watch it on vlc or something else. it’s also on youtube.
Is this game one of those cinematic things, like Asura Wrath and David Cage games?
the title is “observation” so my guess is you observe yourself to death out of boredom.
Playing at the observation station itself is a rather interesting idea. I may check this out eventually.
I just don’t care about Epic store exclusives anymore
But they care about the games you like lmao
Is time like this I’m grateful for the underground scene, to go and crack those games.
Any Publisher/Developer who supports Epic deserves to get their products pirated hard.
Boycott Steam while you are at it, they can end this feud if they want.
Steam isn’t some poor underdog
wow, really, they turned their backs on PC, after the recent jabs they made to T2 about RDR 2 PC porting?.
Jesus, the true colours never stop showing with these devs/pubs, do they?.
Jokes on you for falling to woke propaganda.
Jokes on them, because they’ve screwed their image in the long-run.
Man there is one colour alone, it is the colour of the bills that we use to pay them for our beloved games. Don’t get confused, we are numbers to them.
Devolver Digital: We are ethically superior to those greedy AAA publishers!
Epic: But we have tons of cash from Fortnite mtx and Tencent to spend.
Devolver Digital: Where do I sign?
Rebel galaxy has a hilarious rebuttal to those with Steam Stockholm Syndrome.
https://rebel-galaxy.com/rebel-galaxy-outlaw-launching-on-epic-games-store-qa/
Good answers, just don’t hold your breath for valve fanboys to stop crying.
This is Tim Sweeney commenting on the Windows Store back in 2017: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c4984744aeec2b5d5458b3f266e6ee3d9a9a61e6cd35a2b68c96f889fdf07d2a.jpg
and did he keep his ideology?
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say: no.
What he means by open is to not make a platform exclusive to just one OS, in this case Windows 10. Epic is still better than UWP.
It would take some impressive mental gymnastics to get away from that one, so let’s see your backflips.
So Epic is forcing the developers in some way? Maybe we should call the police lmao
I give that backflip a 2/10, it’s far too predictable.
Epic is clearly trying to force the public into their store by removing openness and it could even be argued, since their deals are with publishers rather than developers, that they could be forcing developers too in certain instances.
If a publisher owns a developer, then they don’t get to have a say, it’s the publisher money that is funding the game in the first place.
And yes, Epic is trying to “force” the public into spending money there, what would you suggest they do? Be a DRM free company like GOG?
how is the game being available in another FREE app “removing openness?”
the thing about console exclusivity is that you have to spend loads of cash just to play the different tittles and as a publisher you dont really have a choice but to deal with microsoft / sony, not the case on the pc
the fact that they went with another store besides the main one (steam) only reinforces the idea that the PC platform remains open. or are you people complaining about installing an app by any chance?
This crap has got to stop. I guess everyone has a price.
So why don’t Steam put their price instead?
Oh no devolver, no! Not you!
Yeah, same company that censored neon nazzi tatoos about a game set in prison. Slow on the uptake?
I have no idea what you’re talking about, but devolver at least until now was one of the best SH around, with no bullsh**
They made a developer apologize and censor one of the games they publish, S.C.U.M.
That game is utter sh** and they’re just the publishers, but i suppose if there’s people bothering them with such stupid stuff i guess that to avoid problems with the justice they just decided to censor that. Anyway i wouldn’t rate a company like devolver on that stuff, i’d rather rate them for this new here, which is greatly wrong and anti-consumer in addition to greedy.
Your selective outrage is duly noted.
“and they’re just the publishers”
lmao publishers fund the game and basically call the shots, how can someone be so naive?
Devolver Digital doesn’t work that way, anyway i don’t care if they censor nazzi or racist stuff, i don’t care they don’t either honestly, but i do care if they p0p0 on me with this anti-consuming stuff because they feel to show their greedy side.
Besides “selective outrage” makes no sense.
All outrage is selective for starters. Oh well, whatever makes you accept they are just like the others.
That we’ll see.
That we’ll see.
Yeah, same company that censored neo n*zi tatoos about a game set in prison. Slow on the uptake?
sweet another game I wont buy early.
enough already!
i was actually one of the few defenders of this store i wanted to give them a chance due to them taking a smaller cut than steam, but all those exclusives deals are just too scummy and are forcing users to use a store that still feel subpar even compared to windows store(yes that piece of crap is more featured than epic store)
im fed up,but mosty i also blames the devs/publishers that cater to those deals.
ill vote with my wallet i hope more people follow suit
Epic Games Store is helping me spend more on Steam due to the money they’re saving me when I pirate their games. ?
Boycott Steam until they address this! i won’t ask you to boycott Epic because you already do so, right?
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Man, my list of “Developers and Publishers to avoid” has been growing really damn quickly, gotta thank Epic for that one, showing me all the sell outs who’d screw over costumers for money.
Epic, making piracy great again!
I pirate games before it was cool to do so (read morally approved)
You realize literally the only “big” game Epic has scored so far is Metro and in the scheme of things, 4A is an indie developer and Metro is definitely not a “big” franchise.
You realize literally that you are f-ing retarded? That’s rethorical, don’t answer.
Very disappointed with Devolver Digital. They are definitely no CD Projekt RED. Now I am seriously concerned about Serious Sam 4 being EGS exclusive.
Aren’t Devolver Digital really hands off when it comes to their publishing? Are we sure this was their decision instead of the devs?
I don’t give a flying ****, I only care about the end result. What is the point of Devolver Digital being the publisher if they have no control of the developers under their umbrella. What do they even do then.
lend them money hoping for better returns
Yeah, only steam is allowed exclusives! Great anti-logic!
Steam/Valve does not pay developer/publishers to make them exclusive to Steam, infact they have always encouraged them to put them on as many Platforms/Stores as possible. What Epic Games is doing is the exact opposite. They are paying developers/publishers to keep games off Steam and other PC Digital Stores. You have to be a complete dummy or a console fanboy to side with Epic Games on this.
Oh yeah, tell me where Xenon Racer can be bought and launched without steam? But thanks for your Steam Stockholm Syndrome talking points.
have you exchanged your brain with a squirrel?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x-gGpZT1TQE/hqdefault.jpg
HAHAHA 🙂
You should ask the Xenon Racer developers/publishers or any other developers/publishers why they decided to make their games exclusive to Steam on PC because there is absolutely no restriction on them to release there game(s) on other PC Digital Stores in addition to Steam.
You Steam fanboys are some of the most delusional fools in the world.
You retrded people are a waste of space and oxigen.
You Steam fanboys are some of the most delusional fools in the world.
That has nothing to do with Steam, but pure Publisher/Developer choice, they under no contract nor obligation and can the release wherever they want.
While the games exclusive to Epic are under a contract where they can’t release the game anywhere else.
And I would in some way say that what Epic is doing is called tampering. Unfair business practices. Dont be surprised if Valve doesn’t file a law suit in the near future over this.
No it’s not. Companies pay for the exclusive rights to products all the time.
Pointing out the hypocrisy of defending Steam’s near monopoly while attacking other stores is not necessarily “siding with Epic.”
Can you point out where Steam has “always encouraged them to put them on as many Platforms/Stores as possible”? That would actually hurt their profits.
Steam created what videogaming on pc is today, so better to be an exclusive on steam compared to a steaming turd with no features and no history.
Hey idiot!!!! where did he mention steam? See this is the problem with JackA$$e$ like you. Devolver Digital also releases their games on GoG as well you fool. This is the problem with this Epic Store debacle, fools like you think that we are ALL here butt hurting & lobbying for steam. NO YOU SIMPLETON, I for one didn’t give a hell about steam, don’t even like steam, don’t even care for steam or all these launchers for that matter, because epic store, steam, Uplay & origin are all the same SCHITT. They’re just another DRM Lockdown madness, where everyone else Owns the product you pay for, except YOU!
What we care about is choice and not to see Epic Store become Steam 2.0 or worse. Because at this rate alot of games are going “Epic Store Hostage”, what that means is a lack of choice and a new twisted variation of an oligopoly. So get your head out of A$$ & stop with your nonsense. YOU DISINGENUOUS FOOL!
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Haha, WTF is this? This is hilarious as hell and sums it up just right. Thanks ?
LMFAO
Being stupid is hard so I’ll be nice to you.
The only exclusives on Steam are because Valve made them. Anything that Valve didn’t make that can only be bought on Steam is on the developer, not Valve.
Go home Tim.
Oh good god! You are absolutely RETARDED! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/57fe835dd95046aacb852347cfbf03661eb6a7ae02e7a8be3969c1d72f7dc014.jpg
They’re SJW cucks because they censored ONE thing?
Doesn’t seem to me like that SJW stuff we’re used to. Besides i don’t care as long as they deliver what they should, and this might be the time where they start not delivering that, and that could start being problematic.
I did in the past, but i’m less likely to do that again now, seen what turn they’re taking.
Never heard anything about EGS game being kracked,so it’s safe to say all of this exclusivity BS because EGS is secure and no one successful enough to make a krack for EGS game…
Metro Exodus would beg to differ.
Its steam version that kracked,not EGS…
It’s getting old really. Lot’s of people fanboying Valve’s money printing company just because the competition is trying to compete. Yeah yeah, boo hoo anti-consumer blabla, nobody cares. If i where a Steam consumer, i would boycott steam until they manage to fix this in some way (paying for exclusives or developing exclusive games for starters).
Steam has the fanboys. Epic has the games. LMAO
Steam has the fanboys. Epic has the games. LMAO
Not really since Steam censors lots of japanese hentai games
WTF, Devolver Digital? No Fuqing Way, they are suppose to be the next CDPR. This has gotta be an early April fools joke. I swear, I really hope that Flying Wild Hog took Shadow Warrior with them, when they got bought by another publisher earlier this month. UnFreakinBelieveAble! Their name ‘Devolver’ Digital, is starting to make sense now. Guess they are saying bye bye to DRM-Free & GoG.
Amazing how gullible people are.
“…they are suppose to be the next CDPR”
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According to Gamespot Bethesda will release Rage, Doom 2, New Wolfenstein on Steam. So there’s hope yet. Halo MCC Steam, and I doubt Square is going with Epic. So its more like:
Epic: Small Developer Games who benefit from Epics bottomless money pit. And Ubisfot.
Steam: Everyone Else.
That said I hope Bloodstained release on Steam, but since Epic is paying off any small developer and crowd funded game I worry.
But Japan indeed does not seem to give a crap about Epic.
“Japan indeed does not seem to give a crap about Epic”
Tencent is Chinese so…
Thank God for Japan, they also not fall for all this SJW, P C crap!!!
God Bless ‘Em!
Bloodstaineds KS explicitly lists a Steam key – digital or in retail packaging – for all backers who receive the game.
If they change their tune after already being funded, the way Phoenix Point did, there will be hell to pay for them in the future.
Guys focus on the positives…this year we are saving tons of money. 😉
Whats the name of that game you explore derelict ships and your character is also a woman?
edit: nope, STARDROP.
Adrift? Tomb Raider? idk
Alien Isolation?
>_< I had huge hopes for Devolver... oh well.. P.s. This game reminds me of the movie called Life from a year/2 ago.
Even Devolver does it?!
F-word! I wanted to buy My Friend Pedro. If that also gets this garbage, I’m out. Seriously, what a disappointment!
Honestly the time has been long overdue for someone to light a fire under steam, i’m actually pretty impressed by how quickly Epic is swinging out of the gate.
Looks very nice, tbh.
And I don’t give a damn about stores, I care about one thing only… My pocket!
If it’s cheaper, then I’m in!