Status Bliceheart May 5, 2026
This game is making me fear things I never knew I would fear.
Return of the Obra Dinn (2018)
Mac · Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · Xbox One
4.38 from 1221 ratings · #95 top rated on Grouvee
3129 members have it in their collection · 101 playing now · 1103 backlogged · 1020 wish listed
How long? Main story 9h · with extras 9h · 100% 10h (from 99 logged playthroughs)
Details
- Developers
- Lucas Pope
- Publishers
- 3909
- Genres
- Adventure, Indie, Puzzle
- Themes
- Fantasy, Historical, Mystery
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Oct 18, 2018 (Worldwide) Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Oct 17, 2019 (Europe) Nintendo Switch
- Oct 18, 2019 (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
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Rating distribution
5 stars
684
4 stars
381
3 stars
104
2 stars
39
1 star
13
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status zaharcubic Jan 19, 2024
+Amazing atmosphere
+Distinct visual style which is really appealing
+Satisfying progression via the in game book completion
+Ingenious hints to unravel the crew's fate
-It can become pretty difficult to deduce some of the member's fates, especially towards the end
-Sometimes the visual style gets in its own way and clutters certain scenes with particle effects that make it hard …
+Amazing atmosphere
+Distinct visual style which is really appealing
+Satisfying progression via the in game book completion
+Ingenious hints to unravel the crew's fate
-It can become pretty difficult to deduce some of the member's fates, especially towards the end
-Sometimes the visual style gets in its own way and clutters certain scenes with particle effects that make it hard to figure our what's happening
Status WildScallion Aug 9, 2023
Maybe my excitement has surpassed how much it's sucked me in. I enjoy pieces of it and am not bothered by graphics, but the clunkiness of navigating the menus and systesm on a switch is preventing me from being consumed by it. I still haven't seen all the memories and am hoping once i'm in detective mode going through each …
Maybe my excitement has surpassed how much it's sucked me in. I enjoy pieces of it and am not bothered by graphics, but the clunkiness of navigating the menus and systesm on a switch is preventing me from being consumed by it. I still haven't seen all the memories and am hoping once i'm in detective mode going through each memory pulling a thread it will be easier. Echoing other peoples frustrations with the ambiguity of verbs (was this person spiked or speared?).
I'm also frustrated by trying to find the next chapter once the ship is fairly cluttered with previous corpses.
Status SuperFieroStatus Jul 3, 2023
Don't know if I'll write a formal review, but I just beat it. I believe if the developer makes another, similar game, it will be a homerun for me. I think this had a little too much awkwardness to make it super enjoyable, and a lot of my "solving" didn't feel authentic. Too may times I had to brute force …
Read moreDon't know if I'll write a formal review, but I just beat it. I believe if the developer makes another, similar game, it will be a homerun for me. I think this had a little too much awkwardness to make it super enjoyable, and a lot of my "solving" didn't feel authentic. Too may times I had to brute force my way through solving. And that might be intended? Maybe? But it felt anticlimactic. I enjoyed the theme, but wish there was a little more information on the story. I do appreciate when a story isn't blatantly pushed in your face, but there are aspects I'd like to know more of, especially after piecing together so much of it over time.
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Status SuperFieroStatus Jul 3, 2023
Man, does this game really get in its own way. I understand that allowing people to just jump between memories via a menu could be immersion breaking (though, having a really tedious mechanic is more immersion breaking for me), but come on. Meet me halfway. If this is expecting me to take notes of where every memory is, and which …
Read moreMan, does this game really get in its own way. I understand that allowing people to just jump between memories via a menu could be immersion breaking (though, having a really tedious mechanic is more immersion breaking for me), but come on. Meet me halfway. If this is expecting me to take notes of where every memory is, and which are nested in what other memory, then maybe an in-game notes thing? I've solved 24 so far. My assumption is that each you solve makes the subsequent ones easier, because your pool of people narrows. So maybe the first chunk is the most tedious. I'm really liking the concept of this, just not the execution. Also, I think the 1-bit style is interesting, but this might not have been the game for it. I don't hate it, I just don't think it's adding to my experience, and might be detracting a tiny bit.
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Status Lygodesma Jun 20, 2022
Not really getting into this. What am I supposed to do? I just walk from memory to memory, check every person I can find there, mark their cause of death but it all seems little connected and I do not advance anyhow. I know I am supposed to look for hints, but what are those? It's also very confusing that …
Not really getting into this. What am I supposed to do? I just walk from memory to memory, check every person I can find there, mark their cause of death but it all seems little connected and I do not advance anyhow. I know I am supposed to look for hints, but what are those? It's also very confusing that I supposedly have to collect informations about the sailors, but I cannot really distinguish one particular sailor from the other as they all look the same to me on the picture so singeling out one and gathering informations about them feels very tedious.
Somebody got some clue to help me here?
Status KennaM May 26, 2021
Just started this last night and had to force myself to turn it off after a few hours otherwise I would have just played through the whole thing in one night. I feel like I still have no idea what happened on this ship because every time I discover a new scene it's just an entirely new tragedy or horror …
Read moreJust started this last night and had to force myself to turn it off after a few hours otherwise I would have just played through the whole thing in one night. I feel like I still have no idea what happened on this ship because every time I discover a new scene it's just an entirely new tragedy or horror - I love it!
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Status BMO Feb 24, 2021
Got my physical copy today. As soon as I am done playing The Messenger, this is the next Switch game I am going to play. Maybe, if I'm lucky, I've found a fourth game that feels like home.
Status BMO Jul 24, 2020
Physical edition on sale over at Limited Run, for those interested. Just ordered mine.
Status maimegidola May 20, 2020
I just binge played this game through two 6-hour sessions. #noragrets