he killed millions

>>714811971 (OP)
I got filtered by the chinese dudes and I didn't want to look up the answers so I quit the game

>>714812376
Hammocks

>>714811971 (OP)
Wrong person

>>714812505
No I mean the guys climbing the ropes and shit. The hammock part was fairly easy but there are literally no clues for the chinese rope guys.

>>714813025
you just have to wing it sometimes

>>714813025
IIRC each has a specific sock, but I just yolo'd that part.

>>714812837
This dude killed the entire ship pretty much

>>714812376
pretty sure I brute forced the chinese dudes with trial and error

>playing it
>so far so good
>suddenly a buch of portraits become unblurred and I have no idea why
>can't figure them out
>keep going, maybe the next scenes will have more hints
>barely make any progress
>get overwhelmed and take a break
>forget everything
>start the game over
I've done this 3 times already
I think I'm too low IQ for this game

>>714814681
You just need to explore each scene to its fullest and progress will be straightforward. Only much later in the game you're required to backtrack to previous scenes and the deductions get more complex.

The black american carpenter with a white american mate made no sense.

>>714814681
Dude it's a 7-9 hour game. Commit to one Sunday evening. If you keep replaying the start you'll get bored of that segment and never finish it.

>>714813025
>there are literally no clues for the chinese rope guys
their shoes

The Formosans did. They knew it was dangerous. They didn't even bother telling anyone. By the end I was wondering if the sea creatures were even in the wrong there.

>>714812505
This games art direction did not do it any favors, tiny details like this are easy to miss. The end game was a huge pain in the ass for me because I missed this

>>714816512
Fucking faggots. Many good MEN died because of their stupidity.

Everything was his fault.

>>714816512
pretty sure the creatures attacked only after the chest was opened

>>714816715
It's true some of the clues are very obscure but the guessing mechanic helps balance it out, don't be afraid to use it.

>>714816512
The mermaids were pretty good willed considering what the crewmen have done to them, since they actually returned the Obra Dinn to its destination hence the name of the game, Return of the Obra Dinn.

>>714817390
kino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GadL-6wpp3U

straight up one of my favorite gaymen moments ever

>>714814681
Same, I agree with the anon saying play it all in one go. I think for me I found the UI itself kind of complex and convoluted, but it IS a quite difficult game and the art style further complicates things (It's a necessity, of course). My high IQ friend came over and basically beat it in one sitting and cucked me brainfully.

>>714812837
KILL STREAK

Did Lucas Pope really build these games solo? crazy to think about it.

>>714816715
this, it was fine til that point. Great game anyways, loved it

cool game, but the "true ending" was really lame, wish there was more to it

>>714813025
I just brute forced that one lol

>>714820139
Honestly, the journey was so amazing, I don't even care about the destination. This game will always have a special place in my heart.

>>714811971 (OP)
I wish more people tried making copies of this game, it has the perfect balance of giving you nothing while giving you everything

>>714814681
ignore the blurring completely and use your own deduction, I did. I don't think it's a necessary or helpful element of the game. sometimes you can make an educated guess on blurry guys while unblurred are perfectly fine to ignore for a while. there is definitely a point where you can figure out the carpenters' identities fairly easily while one or both are still blurred.

I think Pope tried to make the game more forgiving with this mechanic but it's distracting and you're better off following your own powers of observation.

>game has an unconventional boss fight

I liked this game until every second guy was "killed by unknown creature"

>>714822059
>whitest man in New Guinea
>has celtic tattoos
>game acts as if he should be really obvious
Lucas Pope is a fucking fraud

It’s been so long since I beat it that I’ve forgotten pretty much everything and almost all the characters.
Give me 2 more years and I can play this game again and enjoy it just like the first time. Finally, being a brainlet is paying off lol

>>714822289
You forgot
>Is french

>>714822214
Yeah, that was the downside of the location it takes place on, not enough variety.
I'd love a follow up that takes place in a mansion for that reason.

>>714822289
He was one of the most obvious ones
It's the chinks who were fucking guesswork

>>714821378
it's a great idea because it's basically a walk-in picturebook wrapped around an old pen and paper logic puzzle, like you'd find in an old book of puzzles for kids. It had the potential to spark off its own little subgenre but no other indies took up the mantle.

>>714819430
I love the music in this game. There was more than once i just stopped trying to find stuff in a chapter and just listened to the soundtrack play for a while.

>>714821378
The Roottrees are Dead is an Obra-like. Not as good obviously but it might scratch the same itch

>>714812505

>>714811971 (OP)
>dude here is a rooster of 40 nameless, faceless faggots you are supposed to give a flying fuck about to put up with some magic book shenanigans (lol mystery right) to figure out how they died some ridiculous death
I don't care. Next time learn how to make your audience give a shit about your nameless, faceless chars you are supposed to give a shit about to get invested in your shit mystery game. The Golden Idol manages a lot better in that regard.

>>714819430
This track is my favorite in the game.

>>714823202
you were unironically filtered. My condolences

>>714819430
my man

>>714823343
You can eat all the shit you want. Fee free to take my share.

>>714822968
NTA but this looks pretty cool, might give it a try

>>714823202
>he didn't get comfy while uncovering the mystery of a lost ship
Some people just have shit taste.

>>714820139
I feel it would have worked better if it went it forward chronological order, so the last scene is with the third mate making the bargain with the mermaid to return the Obra Dinn back home, but I guess it couldn't really work with the way the memory death scenes operated. Maybe if you could actually visit the Lazaette and the cells would open up in order to reveal a new corpse.

>>714823202
>ai loving jeet is a retard
Shocking.

>>714823202
>The Golden Idol manages a lot better in that regard.
kek, that game's all right but you need to get tested for autism if you believe this

>game requires you to be both anti-racist and super-racist

>>714811971 (OP)
The chapter you have to unlock by the end was disappointing, not sure what was I expecting but it was definitely something more than that. 10/10 game. When shit goes down is such a cool moment I won't ever forget.

>>714823853
>>714822059
im ashamed to admit that these both took me too long to get

I fined this guy's family 40 pounds because it's funny.

>>714811971 (OP)
There was one guy, who either got disintegrated by a cannon blast or yoinked out a porthole by the Kraken and I don't even remember what the right answer was because I just did little variations of my guess when I had two people locked in for sure to get me the triple.

I think it was blown apart by a cannon but I was annoyed there wasn't any blood splatter or at least a few wayward limbs to give a rock solid answer, particularly since there was another guy right next to him who also got rocked by the canon and you could clearly see him getting gibbed but the other guy was no where to be seen.

Two things I didn't realize as I was playing that are huge helps:
1) When reviewing the transcript of a death scene the lines spoken by the guy currently dying are marked with an X.
2) You can insert placeholder titles for characters when you have a partial understanding of their identity (an officer, a midshipman, etc.).

ENTER.

>>714822716
What about the Golden Idol series.

>>714822059
>precisely filters you according to your IQ bracket

>>714825734
golden idol filtered /v/, too hideous for the zoomers to bear looking at

>>714823202
>He doesn't get the Favstian urge to uncover why a captain was killed by his two crew mates on a deserted ship
You must not be white.

>>714822059
If you were relying on ethnic assumptions I guess this guy would fuck you over because of his funky celtic tattoos, but if you're just following the narrative, it was obviously him getting fucked in every hole by the kraken

>>714811971 (OP)
>ate everyone on board
What the fuck was his problem?

>>714825863
>I'm old so I have to like ugly stuff
I didn't sign up for this.

>>714825734
Golden Idol is OK but the puzzle solving boils down to 'look at this wacky picture and rearrange the words of this incomplete story to match it'
there's less pure logic going on because the game feeds you half of the answer every time
haven't played the DLC or the sequel yet

>>714823853
I successfully meta-gamed this guy knowing that the dev was a liberal white guy, so there was no way he'd be the servant.

>>714824910
Pretty sure that one allows you blame the Kraken or the guy who lit the cannon for blasting him. There are a few others where you have multiple options and your choices are reflected in the insurance payouts in the ending.

>>714824910
If you scour for details autistically enough there are rock solid evidence for every fate except one or two if I remember correctly. But the dev himself expects you to do some guesswork if you're not on the spectrum.

>>714826486
I didn't have that meta knowledge, but I guessed it would be the case and made a face when I switched their professions around and got the unlock.

>>714826459
The DLC and the sequel are both good

>>714813025
I didn't know about the hammocks, I remember it would accrue two fates that im certain of, and then cycle through the combinations of the Chinese dudes for the third fate until I score a hit

>>714816982
Literally everything. The fuck was his problem? How badly paid were captain's mates during that time?

>>714813161
>>714815859

>>714826959
Depends how much you liked butt stuff

>>714811971 (OP)
To save trillions

>>714826298
he was crashing this ship with no survivors

>>714820139
I think this is the biggest problem the game has. It makes a special note about there being an entire chapter locked until the post game that's supposed to explain something huge about the plot. I'm not usually a fan of big huge gay dicktwists but Obra Dinn would have been way better if there was something crazy that happened that that like redefined the rest of the game

>>714825290
Bloke was an absolute legend.

>>714827197
I don't think that any twist or epilogue revelation fits this game since the player doesn't even know what's going on until the very last fate. Can't put a twist on a story that's told in reverse.

>>714816512
Fuck seaniggers. They attacked and killed many good men and innocent people and got what they deserved. The captain literally saved the ungrateful crew by killing the mermaids until they called off the kraken. If it wasn't for him the ship would've sunk and everyone would end up ripped apart with no mercy

>This game
>Outer Wilds
>Golden Idol series
Brehs, I need more. More explorative investigative kino that gives me some brickshitting revelations.
I bought but haven't played The Roottrees Are Dead. Haven't played the sequel to Case of the Golden Idol either. Anything else out there?

>>714828475
Painscreek Killings and Thimbleweed Park, though neither are as good.

>>714828475
Lucifer Within Us. However it is very short and absolutely not worth paying full price for.

>>714828705
>Thimbleweed Park
Not that anon, but I tried that one a short while ago and I really couldn't stand the writing.

>>714828475
Unheard - Voices of Crime had some pretty good moments.

>>714828475
The Painscreek Killings is really good. Not perfect but a very fun little mystery. And if you haven’t played Rise of the Golden Idol I liked it a lot. I don’t know if it’s better than Case but it’s got its own charm. Manages to not necessarily retread the exact same plot as the original and some of the cases aren’t even murders, but still plot important puzzles. The DLC has also been enjoyable so far. Still two more expansions left to release

>>714822059
what cracks me up is that me being a complete fucking retard made me get him early
>assume new guinea was how the french guiana was called back in the day because the name is kinda similar
>indians and whites on the same place
>this guy is the only one covered in tattoos
>there is only one new guinea soul in the ship
>hmmm, i guess he could be descendant of the natives and some colonizers

>>714811971 (OP)
I forgot everything about this game t b h even though I’m pretty sure I got the platinum (?)
Just came to this thread to see if there’s anyone bitching about not seeing the numbered tags

>>714811971 (OP)
why do people say this game is not replayable i literally forgot everyone

>>714828475
Rain World is the only game to match Outer Wilds' levels of kino but the game is so impenetrable and punishing that it's begging you to look up anything about it, which in the process ruins any value it has
only game that demands "just trust me it gets better bro"

>>714823853
the other guy calls him boss in one of the voice lines it's pretty obvious at that point

>>714811971 (OP)
I didn't really like this game that much, but I do like the fact that you can straight up put the captain as responsible for all the deaths since it's his job to prevent them.

>>714829203
I remember this one, really cool concept but the story kinda fell apart right at the end.

>game lets you deduce things based on racism like "the exotic guy has exotic tattoos" and "the guy with a turban and a scimitar is from persia"
what did Lucas Pope mean by this?
also for anyone who has yet to try rise of the golden idol, I wouldn't recommend it. I was already not a huge fan of the first game but this one is not only easy, it has a worse story and like 60% of the chapters aren't even about a murder

how fast can he crack the Obra Dinn case?

>>714828475
The Ace Attorney series is guess

My favorite part of this game was playing for a few hours, then getting up and noticing my vision was completely fucked

apart from this and ace attorney
what are some good mystery games?

>>714811971 (OP)
Everyone else on that ship was a turbosperg. They had it coming.

>>714823554
It's wokeslop

>>714833248
There's so many it'll be easier if you were more specific
Danganronpa for example is a good one if you liked the courtroom theming of Ace Attorney.

Check out Senna and the Forest

>>714828475
Betterified VI

>>714827129
does the game actually end if you just fill the entire book with nonsense?

>>714839056
>Betterified VI
Is this some sort of weird Super Mario World rom hack? What am I in for here?

>>714828475
I wishlisted Death at Fleming Manor. The trailer and screenshots seem fairly in-depth.

>>714839397
It's a custom world made on the Super Mario Bros X PC engine that people used to use before romhacking got advanced enough to sidestep the need for its existence.
Betterified VI: Bestified (don't play the other 5 sub-par inside joke hacks before it) is ostensibly a comedy-based custom world that shows off a bunch of SMBX's custom asset tools. However, it's also jam-fucking-packed with more secrets than you could ever believe actually exist within the game. Secret worlds and bosses, religion mechanics, bad/true endings, esoteric multi-step secrets with debug keyboard commands that almost always end up paying off in the form of something mildly silly. It goes deep beyond belief.
It's not kaizo difficulty either, it's pretty casual-friendly (as a casual myself), though the game does nothing to stop you from using base-game SMBX cheats.

Here's a download link;
https://www.smbxgame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29122
And here's the release trailer;
https://youtu.be/uWw2SSdcHWs?si=vO6EnYOO6M7ZdxP-

Also Super Mario Bros X was made by Redigit, the main man behind Terraria, which is why the fireball sprites look exactly like a Terraria spell.
The Harpy King is REAL.

>>714839894
nta but I LOVE weird custom-campaign shit like this, stuff that not many people will play but is absolutely jam-packed with effort and unique stuff.
Now that you posted this, it reminded me of a similar thing for Portal 2, A Minuted Millions:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/a-minuted-millions
I recommend going in blind, great stuff. Playtime is roughly 1-2 hours, single map (kinda).

>>714839894
How does it compare to La Mulana?

>>714841748
Hey, thanks for the recommend! Yeah, same stuff, I like little hand-crafted experiences that no one else has seen but has passion poured into it. Betterified VI itself is the culmination of a long-running joke where the original Betterified was a shitpost remix of a hack called the Invasion 2 originally used to showcase SMBX's custom tools, but that added context is not required to enjoy it. I haven't done any Portal 2 modding before but Source modding is far from difficult.
>>714841748
It isn't even a fraction as Cryptic and deep as La Mulana, admittedly. The puzzles are much easier and most simply test your intuition to stop and go "wait, is that being serious?". But I'd also say it never overstays its welcome, with every level having its own weird gimmick that no other level shares and half of all levels being entirely optional. But if you want a GAME and not a silly custom campaign, Betterified VI is not that.
t. someone who was filtered hardcore by La Mulana when discovering the b-sides

>>714842736
ALSO, I remember another one called Terminal 7 for Half Life 2. Very good. Also Mario Themed:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/terminal-7
Someone in the comments said its on the workshop, so that's cool too

>>714822059
>portrait looks like an abo
>has funky tribal tattoos
>new guinea is an island of abos
aussies get an advantage on this one

>>714826219
>it was obviously him getting fucked in every hole by the kraken
Nigger, that was the fakeout.
You see him explicitly getting ripped apart and the next scene a guy mentions how a frenchman was ripped apart by the beast.
You never see the actual frenchman die, he's just right next to the creature, holding a weapon before he's never seen again.

>>714823853
>the game prides itself on being able to use historical details to inform deductions
>takes place 50 years before slavery was abolished in USA and 25 before even UK did it
>both characters are explicitly american
>but the nigger is the boss
I was so mad.

>4/5ths of the crew is fucking dead
>Have been attacked 3 different times by hellish spawn creatures
>Private rooms are empty, blood soaks the walls of the ship

>Still sleep in your same hammock in the same place you always do

Closed the game after this.
This isn't detective work.

>>714839231
You get a letter from the wife of one of the survivors telling you the guy who gave you the book was so mad he died.

>>714848823
Damn, the captain claims another one.

>>714848964

>>714848617
>>but the nigger is the boss
There were free blacks anon, even in the slaveowning states. A large percentage of them owned slaves lol

>>714825863
there's nothing ugly about the golden idol

>>714824910
Multiple correct answers for some characters.

>>714825734
I liked it, but haven't gotten around to the new one yet.

>>714826459
>>714826763
DLC is a full order of magnitude harder.

>>714826645
No. Every single one has solid evidence.
>
>714831394
Rain world is the greatest game I hated the hell out of.

>>714811971 (OP)
Any games similar to this before the summer sale ends? I already bought case of the Golden idol and have been enjoying it.

>>714823853
>>714822059
this had to have been a troll

>>714851579
>>714848252
This too, this game definitely had some horseshit. How this guy wasn't the french guy after that dialogue was absurd, nevermind him being from fucking new guinea

>>714819430
>huh, what happened to this guy
>looks like he got shot through the wall by something
>is that a slit?
>what's going on over there?
>

>>714823324
>>714819430
>>714852057
Fucking based taste

>>714848964

>>714851069
Roottrees are Dead, Unheard

There's also this text adventure game "Type Help" on itch.io but the Roottrees devs are turning it into a graphical one
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/The_Incident_at_Galley_House/

>>714848964
fucking lmao

>>714828705
>>714830709
I don't really recommend Painscreek anymore now that games closer to Obra Dinn like Golden Idol and Roottrees exist.

>>714828475
I've played Tunic last week and while it leeds mroe into the adventure genre being a Zelda clone, the mysteries and puzzles are top tier

The 'Roottrees are Dead' is alright for a obra dinn like. Some of the threads are a bit crazy but I liked website investigating.

>>714831801
The counter to that racism claim would be the carpenter boss I guess

>>714811971 (OP)
I'm 21 correct deaths deep and I still have no idea who this fucker >>714812837 is at all. I know he's not the gunner's mate but I'm going insane I swear to god.

>>714848617
It makes sense due to ship culture. Seniority and merit are valued more than anything else. Even if you nepo your way in as an officer you won't go far without actual skills.

>>714856769
If all else fails, sleuth two correct fates first, then brute force through all possible combinations to get him right

>>714856769
It's Brennan duh.

>>714856769
He's the true Captain of the ship

>you will never get to play Obra Dinn for the first time again
Somebody hit me over the head with a brick so I can forget everything about this game and play it again

I stopped caring to finish the game legit after the 6th or 9th hour of playing.

>>714859103
I did a 2nd run forcing myself not to guess, using the captain as check mark when I find the corresponding clue. Gets you the joke achievement along the way.

i wish all the worst on anyone that ever recommends the roottrees are dead. one of the worst puzzle games i ever played and a massive nothing burger of a story. genuinely, genuinely a massive waste of time

>>714860529
oh, im sorry. it was pretty cheap.

>>714860529
Worst """puzzle""" game has to go to blue prince what a load of fucking shit.

>>714860529
Sure "your dad's gay, bro" is no big deal now but still kinda-sorta shocking in the 90s.

>>714839839
Good catch, thanks.

>>714812837
check out the accents, the game can be solved completely without brute force

>>714860529
The logical deductions and connections I think were actually really well done and felt balanced so i never felt compelled to brute force any of the IDs, but yeah once you realized which direction the "mystery" was going, it sucked a lot of the tension and excitement out. also the free AI gen photo version is much more interesting than the full release because it gives the whole thing a kind of creepy and uncanny edge that really benefits the atmosphere.

>>714864382
>compelled to brute force any of the IDs
This is a weird complaint to me for these types of games
Because if we're talking about Golden Idol/Obra Dinn, i felt like those games convey enough information and clues to you to somewhat comfortably deduce identities

>>714862907
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING

>>714848792
>I'm retarded
Thanks for letting us know.

>>714865234
>>714862907
>Roottrees 2025 version
>"Hey ChatGPT, is this hag's dad a gay?"
>"Dude bro, two buff men don't just hang out all day half-naked and oiled up all the time. He's gay and gay as fuck"
>"Well there you go ma'am, your dad's gay and your uncle's gay and that's why they were passed for inheritance. That'll $3500+tip, thx"

>>714848964
KEK

>>714849349
the twist got me so bad

>>714828475
>AAAAHHH FUCKING HELP ME
>hmmm so "you" want "me" to "help" "you"
>curious
>noting this down

>>714821378
lucas pope is unironically a genius and a game like this isn't easy to make even for team of developers and he did it basically solo
that's why most of these clones are more of just "fill in the gap" puzzles

>>714819430
>Was this guy shot through the wall or something? Let me look through the—OH GOD

>>714867271
Same. I was like 'who is this faggot?' for half the game until I realized why he was rolling up on that dipshit's manor only to get smeared and then had a hearty chuckle.

>>714868729
This one was a lot of fun. Not super difficult but a cool idea. If I had one note I wish there was more side missions beyond just the interlayer communication translations. It would have been cool to have to go back and follow up once they start traveling to different layers and helping each other. But if you don’t go way out of your way to do so you might not even realize that’s happening.

>>714848964
S-should I be worried?
The captain could be haunting us

>>714868729
I really liked this game, but found the scientists and the last area to be kinda gay.
the thespians faggots in the middle area had the coolest language twist.

>>714848964
LOL

>>714831394
I know nothing about it, but I gave Rain World 2 hours and it just wasn't fun. All I was doing was platforming with random enemies to avoid, I don't even understand how it could be better when it's a gameplay focused game over story.

>>714811971 (OP)
why did he get shafted in the ending?
when you're going over who gets their estate fined or rewarded, he's on the punished side, despite DOING NOTHING WRONG
what is wrong with the British government?

>>714826974
>tfw spent half an hour analizing Chinese feet sticking out of hammock and taking notes on them

>>714868729
the game peaks in the nobles area and never recovers, just a steady decline after that