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After an organic artifact transports you far from Earth, you explore an unfamiliar landscape where pieces of human places sit alongside alien environments. As the stranded visitor, you investigate what happened and search for a way home. Progress comes from observing your surroundings and piecing together clues found in buildings, documents, recordings, symbols, and machines. The game offers little direct guidance, so mapping routes and remembering details can help you work out what to do next. Many puzzles connect distant locations and systems: an action in one place may affect a machine or route elsewhere, and travel between different worlds is part of solving them. Your discoveries gradually reveal more of the setting and its inhabitants, while your choices have consequences.

An alien artifact carries you to worlds mixing Earth fragments with strange terrain, where you explore and solve linked puzzles to get home.

Released 24 Aug 2016

80%positive of
4.0k player reviews
$29.99 $11.99
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Explore Earth-Alien Worlds

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Solve Environmental Puzzles

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Connect Distant Machines

A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.

Developed by Cyan, Inc. · Published by Cyan, Inc.

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Common Player Critiques

  1. Slow, Repetitive Backtracking
  2. Long Loading Screens
  3. Tedious Or Obscure Puzzles
  4. Bugs And Crashes
80%
positive of 4.0k player reviews
76/100
Metacritic

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Back of the Box

Platforms Windows, macOS
Achievements 15
Age ratings
  • ESRB E10+ — Fantasy Violence Mild Language
  • ClassInd (Brazil) 12 — Linguagem imprópria Violência
  • IGRS (Indonesia) 15 — Rokok dan/atau rokok elektronik, minuman beralkohol, narkotika, psikotropika, dan/atau zat adiktif lainnya Kekerasan Penggunaan bahasa
  • Steam (Germany) 16 — Gewalt Alkohol / Tabak Schimpfwörte
Controller support Xbox
Controller required No
DLC / extras 2 listed on Steam
DRM / EULA
  • Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA Obduction EULA 1
Content notices
  • Fantasy Violence
  • Mild Language
  • Age rating for: ESRB
Metacritic 76/100 View on Metacritic
Website Official website

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Obduction is currently listed at $29.99. Get it on Steam here.
Who made Obduction, and when did it come out?▾
It was developed by Cyan, Inc. and published by Cyan, Inc., released on August 24, 2016.
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