Jonathan Blow’s new puzzle game, The Witness, is now available on Steam. The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles, and below you can find the game’s PC requirements, as well as some 4K screenshots from the PC version.
As its description reads:
“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.”
Here are the game’s PC requirements:
MINIMUM:
- OS: Windows 7
- Processor: 1.8GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 4000 series
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 4 GB available space
RECOMMENDED:
- OS: Windows 7
- Processor: 2.4GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce 780
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Enjoy!
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I’ll solve the first 2 puzzles to access the island, light a joint & enjoy the pretty colours while walking around for a bit and that’ll be the last time I’ll visit Jonathan Blow Presents Pretentiousness Fantasy Island®
IGN gave this game 10/10! So is it any good?
They gave Gone Home 9.5 too. Id wait for more reliable reviews, cant trust the reviews on these websites.
That was my point too, suspicious that an IGNorant place like IGN suddenly would give a game a 10/10. “Heres Johnny” never scores or reviews games so he smartly avoids it all!
Too bad most modern reviewers state CONSTANTLY that a 10/10 does not mean that it is “perfect” but a “must play”. The only reason you don’t like 10/10s is because they upset your concept of what a 10/10 is to you, even if it isn’t even what the reviewer meant by it (which is the whole point, as it is THEIR review, not yours).
7/10 should not = bad. but in today’s game journalism “7” means trash
0-10% = 1/10
11-20% = 2/10
21-30% = 3/10
31-40% = 4/10
41-50% = 5/10
51-60% = 6/10
61-70% = 7/10
71-80% = 8/10
81-90% = 9/10
91-100% = 10/10
Therefore 10/10 doesn’t mean it’s perfect it means it scores within the top 10% of being perfect.
In essence scores out of 10 are ten times less specific than those out of a hundred which is where your grievance comes in when trying to rationalise and compare. If you factored scores down by a further ten then all games would score either a 0 or a 1. Which basically means it’s absolute garbage or it’s perfect which is obviously rubbish.
basically the more Naughts you have the more specific your actual score would become. I guess most sites feel scoring ?/10 is accurate enough. People just need to understand that 10/10 doesn’t always equate to being perfect.
Played 2 hours before going to work, Seems good so far, Although there is no FOV slider in-game, But Jonathan has stated they might be adding it in.
I f’ckin love this scene.
The story is quite “meh”, but the action scenes are top notch.
Agreed, some of the action was nice but the story was beyond terrible:
“Let’s drive to the end of the world, I heard it’s great there!”
Rag tag team of three fighters plus baggage kill most of the well organized pursuers.
“Actually, nevermind, let’s drive back the entire way!”
They kill the remaining enemies as well, no big deal.
“Let’s open up the water reserves for everyone, surely there was no legitimate reason for the supposed bad guy to limit water supply.”
The End, and then they all die of thirst.
So 100% of puzzles revolves around that Snake minigame? That’s disappointing if it’s the case. Though they may be creative, the potential of the whole beautiful island would be wasted.
Considering that it was (or will be soon) released on mobile platforms, it’s basically Myst 2016 Dumbed Down + Mobile Edition.
It still seems worthwile. It’s an original game, unlike many today’s productions.
Yes and no. There’s always the dots/lines/snake minigame (so far, I’m 2hs into the game), but most of those puzzles interacts with the environment in some way. In many occasions the game forced me to think out of the box.
“brimming with secrets: daunting and multilayered
mysteries”
This is an English major’s way of masturbating publically. The Steam review sounds honest at least.
“Johnathon Bl0ws the Witness”
I hope the Witness liked it….
Is this a bad P 0 r n Title or what?