[01] Return Of The Obra Dinn Livestream - Murders Most Foul! - Let's Play Gameplay (PC)
15I'm finally getting around to checking out a game I've been wanting to play for over a year; welcome to my playthrough of Return of the Obra Dinn, a monochromatic, logical deduction game from the same indie developer who made Papers, Please - Lucas Pope. This is such a unique game and experience, just the kind of weird innovation that I am drawn to like a moth to the flame. Feel free to help out and try to make connections to help us solve the mysteries, but please keep direct spoilers to yourself. Thank you!
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Return of the Obra Dinn is a puzzle video game created by Lucas Pope. It was his second commercial game, following 2013's Papers, Please, and was released for macOS and Microsoft Windows in October 2018, and with ports for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One releasing a year later.
Return of the Obra Dinn is played as an insurance inspector for the East India Company in 1807. The fictional Obra Dinn, a ghost ship missing for five years, has suddenly reappeared with all hands missing or dead. The player is sent to board the ship and perform an appraisal, identifying all sixty crew members, determining their causes of death, and when applicable, naming their killer. This is accomplished through the use of a "Memento Mortem", a stopwatch that transports the user to a corpse's moment of death. The game, played from the first-person view, uses a "1-bit" monochromatic graphical style inspired by games on early Macintosh computers.
Return of the Obra Dinn was praised for its gameplay, art style, and narrative. It was named as one of the best video games of 2018 by several publications, winning several awards.
The Obra Dinn, insured by the East India Company, went missing in 1803 as it was to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. It has since washed up in port with all sixty passengers and crew dead or missing. The player is tasked to determine the fate of all souls on board, including their names, where and how they met their death, who their killer was, and their location should they be alive.
The game is played in first-person, allowing the player to fully explore the Obra Dinn, using a monochromatic dithering style to mimic the shading & color methods of early computer games. To help track their progress, the player is given a logbook that includes a drawing of all the crew members, the crew roster, and blueprints of the ship. They are also given the "Memento Mortem", a pocket watch-like device that can be used on a corpse. When activated, the player will hear the seconds before the death, and can then explore the moment of death frozen in time. This is used to identify who was present, to capture moments in other rooms or on other decks, and to make note of details in the scene. These are used to help connect the faces of crew mates to their names and roles. While exploring a moment of death, the player can use the pocketwatch again to enter more corpses captured in the vision.
With each death, the logbook automatically fills in basic information. The player is tasked only with naming those present & accurately describing their cause of death. Naming the crew is done through small clues, inferences, and logical deduction - mainly, narrowing possibilities as the game progresses. The causes of death are selected out of a catalogue, and some deaths will accept more than one solution. The player can revise their logbook as they gain more information, but to prevent guesswork, "fates" are only validated in correct sets of three.
The Obra Dinn, an East Indiaman trade ship, departs from Falmouth to the Orient in 1802 with 51 crewmen and 9 passengers. The ship fails to meet her rendezvous at the Cape of Good Hope, and is declared lost. Five years later, the Obra Dinn reappears off the coast of England with most hands dead. The East India Company sends their Chief Inspector to determine what happened aboard the ship. The inspector has received from Henry Evans - the ship's surgeon, and near-only survivor - the ship's logbook and the "Memento Mortem" stopwatch. With these and other clues, the inspector works out the sequence of events after the ship's launch.
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