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Puzzles That Turn Looking into Play
Action games verb shoot. Puzzle games verb push. But Witness, Obra Dinn, and Lorelei share a different verb: look. How the design of observation-as-play has evolved across the genre. This hub collects the relevant essay and reviews.
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- The Witness
More than five hundred line-drawing panels. Observation itself becomes the verb.
observationnarrative-puzzlepathfinding - Return of the Obra Dinn
A monochrome mystery where an insurance assessor must identify sixty crew and reconstruct their fates aboard a ghost ship.
logic-gridobservationnarrative-puzzle - Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
In an eerie monochrome hotel, over 150 ciphers, numbers, and symbol puzzles weave through every floor.
logic-gridobservationnarrative-puzzle - Her Story
Search a police database of live-action video clips to reconstruct the story of a missing husband. An FMV mystery.
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