As you bask in the otherworldly beauty and explore the enigmatic landscapes, remember that the choices you make will have substantial consequences. The strange worlds of Obduction reveal their secrets only as you explore, discover, coax, and consider their clues. You’ve been abducted from your cozy existence and added into an alien landscape with pieces of Earth from unexpected times and places. As you walk beside the lake on a cloudy night, a curious, organic artifact falls from the starry sky and inexplicably, without asking permission, transports you across the universe. Get Obduction for free at Epic Games Store until 5 PM CET Thursday, July 22nd 2021įrom Cyan, the indie studio that brought you Myst, comes a new sci-fi adventure. The game, when launched through the GOG Galaxy downloader, is initially in non-VR mode however.Obduction a spiritual successor to Cyan’s previous adventure games, Myst and Riven is free to grab. Obduction supports SteamVR headsets including HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. It seems to have rebounded somewhat with successive optimizations as well as new content, which has garnered the game a ‘Mostly Positive’ overall user rating on Steam, a 78% positive rate out of a total of 1,635 reviews. It definitely reflects the studio’s brand of visually stunning environments mixed with cerebral puzzles, although it did suffer from somewhat of a rocky launch-in part due to high hardware requirements at the time. We wouldn’t go as far to spoil the game (even slightly) for newcomers, but it’s safe to say Obduction is a both mentally taxing and hardware-intensive we felt confident enough to give the game a very solid in our review even its ‘experimental VR mode’ state, which it has since been shed with its official launch a few weeks after our initial review.

The game is free to keep, but you have to make sure to add it to your account before June 1st at 10 PM UTC ( local time here). To get it, simply log into (or sign up for) your GOG account, and add the game by clicking this link. GOG is giving away Obduction (2016), the latest VR puzzler from Cyan, the studio behind iconic ’90s adventure puzzlers Myst (1993) and Riven (1997).

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