The Witness
The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no…
The Witness is an adventure developed by Thekla, Inc, released 26 January 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS and Mac. The main story takes about 19.7 hrs to finish.
What The Witness is
The Witness is an adventure game developed by Thekla, Inc and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Custom Engine. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you. You don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you got here, but there's one thing you can do: explore the island in hope of discovering clues, regaining your memory, and somehow finding your way home.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are mystery, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 2 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Witness holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 20 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 537 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 19.7 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 35 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8GHz, 4 GB RAM and Intel HD 4000 series. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Witness launched on 26 January 2016, within three weeks of Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami and Darkest Dungeon. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami, Darkest Dungeon.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Witness yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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