Viewfinder
Viewfinder is a puzzle game where you can reshape the world around you by taking photos with an instant camera.
Viewfinder is an adventure developed by Sad Owl Studios, released 18 July 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $7.49 at GOG. The main story takes about 5.9 hrs to finish.
What Viewfinder is
Viewfinder is an adventure game developed by Sad Owl Studios and released in 2023. It was published by Thunderful. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Viewfinder is an inventive first-person puzzle game built around a remarkable ability: to take photographs and two-dimensional images and place them into the world, where they become real, three-dimensional spaces the player can walk through and manipulate. This reality-bending mechanic serves a deeper story. The game is set inside a simulation created by a small team of researchers desperately working to solve an existential crisis: in the real world, all plant life on Earth has been wiped out, leaving humanity without a viable source of oxygen. The player character enters this digital space to retrace the scientists' steps, solving intricate photographic puzzles to reach the teleporters…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 46 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Viewfinder holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 112 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5.9 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $7.49, that works out to about $1.27 per hour of the main story, or $1.04 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i5-9600K / AMD Ryzen 5, 8 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 970. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 20GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $7.49 at GOG, 70% below its usual price. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Pakistan is the cheapest region we track at $8.49 (about $8.49), while Germany pays €24.99 — 3.3 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 8 on Steam, which is about $8.49.
What it launched against
Viewfinder launched on 18 July 2023, within three weeks of Baldur's Gate III, Baldur's Gate III, Dave the Diver and Remnant II. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Baldur's Gate III, Baldur's Gate III, Dave the Diver, Remnant II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Viewfinder yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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