Obduction
From Cyan, the indie studio that brought you Myst and Riven comes a whole new adventure that will become your world. The new worlds of Obduction reveal their secrets only as you explore, coax, and consider…
Obduction is an adventure developed by Cyan Worlds, released 24 August 2016 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Xbox One and iOS. The main story takes about 11.5 hrs to finish.
What Obduction is
Obduction is an adventure game developed by Cyan Worlds and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Xbox One, iOS, Mac, Oculus Rift, PC (Microsoft Windows), SteamVR and Windows Mixed Reality. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"As you walk beside the lake on a cloudy night, a distant thunderclap demands your attention. A curious, organic artifact falls from the starry sky and inexplicably, without asking permission, transports you across the universe. You’ve been abducted from your cozy existence and added into an alien landscape with a stereotypical Kansas farmhouse, a white picket fence, and a rather bizarre little ghost town - well… almost ghost town. Adding to the oddity, you discover a strangely kluged kiosk that reassuringly welcomes you to Hunrath."
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 15 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Obduction holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 72, across 74 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 11.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 17 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for CPU Intel i5-2500 equivalent or better, 8 GB RAM and GeForce 660 GTX w/1GB / AMD 7700 series w/1GB equivalent or better. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 20GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Obduction launched on 24 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Obduction yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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