Right?! Thank you. That’s exactly how I feel about it, and yet all I’ve seen are people praising it left and right and comparing it to Outer Wilds, which is a masterpiece of an actual mystery game and far and away stratosphericly better than Obra Dinn.

Obra Dinn just… immediately hands you all the cool parts, and all that’s left is finding out tiny minutiae. And the setting is just a bog-standard example of its genre. And you already know the end, almost immediately, and aren’t given any reason to care about how it got there (and how it got there is very predictable, apart from minutiae like exactly how did each random crewmate die or ‘what was this guy’s name’). And the tools you’re given to ‘solve’ the ‘mystery’ basically just amount to “use this tool and see what happened directly!” - you don’t have to do any deduction or puzzling at all, you just have to use your eyes. There are no satisfying surprises. Just stuff like, “huh, I guess this person I don’t care about killed this other person I don’t care about, woopdedoo” or “this guy fell overboard I guess, oh well,” or whatever.

Sorry I’ve needed to vent about this one for a while I guess. :P

I did like the art style they went for. That was cool. Black and white is underrated.