The Witness

Overview

The Witness will be a first-person adventure/puzzle game where players must explore an uninhabited island, solving puzzles in order to progress further into the game. Jonathan Blow (the creator of Braid) is the project lead on the game. He has revealed that the player starts by waking up in a room, leaving your first puzzle to be figuring out how to unlock the door. The game is likely to deliberately conjure up similarities to Myst, much in the same way Braid used Super Mario Bros. as a well-understood gaming starting point.

The game is set to be released in 2013 for PC, iPad and Playstation 4.

Gameplay

The gameplay will be highly focused on exploration and discovery. The puzzles will start off easy, guiding a light from a starting point to an end point on the side of a panel. The puzzles quickly ramp up and become more complicated. The player moves at a strolling pace, giving them plenty of time to take in their surroundings or contemplate a shape off in the distance. Little instruction is provided, allowing the player to explore on their own and achieve the satisfaction of figuring out the puzzles for themselves.