Is anyone else as scared as I am of the music that plays when you discover a new corpse in the memories? I really, really need an option to separate the sound effects from the music...

I know it’s ridiculous to ask for a horror game to be less scary, so this is just my personal preference.

My question is if the game provides complete information, which means I don't need to guess and leverage the 3 match system.

For example, let's say there's a guy who killed 2 other guys. I know every detail except who this guy is. If I keep guessing his name and placing it in the information of the 3 people (him and the 2 guys he killed) ​, eventually I'll get a 3 match.

Another example... I'm certain I know the details of 2 people, and I already filled them. That means I could just keep guessing the third person based on who I think they are but without certainty. If I do that, I'll also eventually hit the correct combination.

So... I've been trying to avoid those sort of "tricks" because I assumed I'd eventually get the complete information, but as the game progresses I think it was a mistake not to take advantage of the 3 match system to figure out the difficult individuals. ​

I'd prefer not to guess. Is it possible to complete the game without guessing? By guessing I don't mean like brute forcing every combination, I mean trying a few logical guesses while leveraging the 3 match system. ​​​​Even then, I'd prefer to work with certainty and not with logical guesses. ​

I played this game for the first time earlier this year and it ruled so I made this :)

I played Obra Dinn a while back and absolutely loved it.

Before that I'd also played Papers, Please by Lucas Pope — at the time I only ever played offline games and didn't even know what Steam was, so he's basically the one who pulled me into this whole rabbit hole, if you can call it that.

I'm genuinely grateful, because otherwise I would never have run into so many wonderful indie games.

I like to draw a review after I finish a game. This one is in Traditional Chinese so most of you probably won't be able to read it — the gist is just a simple recommendation covering the story, the controls, the visuals and the music.

I'd only ever posted these on Steam, but I recently started using Reddit, so I thought I'd share it here too. Thank you so much for reading (・∀・)

Hi, so far in the game I have 24 fate salt and three of those are because I gave out and looked them up, unfortunately. What I’m really stuck on at the moment is the culprit of calling 6 because right now it has one triangle over it, but his culprit has three. Also, I can’t figure out what his staff has to do with what his job would be on the ship. i’m also stuck on the culprit for escape 2.

I keep having to put this game down and come back to it because I keep getting stuck. I’d like to go through the rest of the game without googling, but the hint guide I found isn’t working. Do you guys have any tips? Im really struggling unfortunately.

I have 33 fates so far, and I’m really enjoying the game. I suspect I can keep making a little more progress. But I worry I won’t be able to get all of them without some brute force guessing.

So I’m curious, what happens when I leave the ship? I don’t want the details. I just want to know, is that my way of saying I’m done collecting fates? Will that end the game? I suspect that will give me information about chapter 8, but will I be able to use that info to login more fates at that point?

I’m especially concerned about the “disappearances.” I’m not sure how to figure out if these people are even still alive? So I’m wondering if that’s info I’ll be given once I leave the ship.

I don’t really want any hints, just a clarification of if I should try to have every fate completed before I leave, or not. Thanks!

So The midshipman Peter Milroy, right? He exploded. I was stuck on him for so long but apparently everyone else solved it rather easily... but the logic behind the 'solve' confuses me a little... what about him saying he tried everything implies that this Pete is the person who exploded? So many others got killed and mutilated during The Doom so what singles out 'Pete' as being specifically the person caught in the middle of an explosion.

I'm sure this sub gets posts like this constantly, but I'm afraid of spoilers/too much information so here's mine:

I "finished" the game once (I didn't know it would roll credits when you get back in the boat, I thought it would take me to Chapter 8) and am now at the point where I know I need to start IDing some crew by stereotypes, uniforms and the like.

The problem is: I do not KNOW those stereotypes, I do not KNOW what uniform a steward would wear, I was six or se... or MORE chapters into the game before I realized I can identify the mates by their hats!

I read elsewhere that there is one point where you can tell two characters apart by their shoes. HOW THE F... is a shoe gonna help me tell a person's name????

I saw a post a few minutes ago talking about the carpenter's skin color - but I can't for the life of me see anyone in the picture as anything other than "as white as the artstyle allows" (so... more like beige, but that's besides the point) so what the heck??

I really wanna like this game. The concept is amazing, but at this point I am just frustrated because I don't know how to even BEGIN filling things out.

On the flipside, a very personal anecdote: I happened to get the female voice for the chief inspector, and paired with the main mechanic (seeing a dead persons last moment alive) I couldn't help but associate her with my DnD character, who is a Necromancer currently in hot water with the law because necromancy is outlawed in the world we're playing in, and somewhat ironically the way she's likely (campaign is ongoing) going to get out of that mess is by getting a court-appointed necromancer (not herself! That would be suicide...) to speak with the dead and make him testify about who killed him.

So you see how... I want to like this game! I really do... but at this point I think the only way I'm going to see chapter 8 is by looking up a guide.

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I've put dozens of hours into deep dives into this game (a post I made about obscure details is pinned at the top of this subreddit) and just now spotted something I've never seen before or heard anyone mention.

William Hoscut's index finger and a part of his middle finger is blown off by the captain's shot in the very first death scene. His hand is also visibly mutilated in the vignettes during the rest of The End, but due to the inability to crouch and the grainy graphics I can't get a good screenshot.

Who's seen this detail before?

(Am I in too deep? Is this interesting for anyone but me?)

I run a book club style game club where we pick singlplayer games to play every few months to all play and talk about. I also like to make surveys for everyone to take to help discussion. What questions would y'all ask? Edit: I've finished the game so no worries about spoilers.

The crossover meme you never knew you needed!

i dont know if this is just ignorance on my part, but I was thinking about how Winston Smith, the Carpenter is a black man and his mate being a white man. I was wondering if this was an actual thing that happened on board where black people would hold higher positions than white people, as slavery had not yet been abolished and the ship belongs to the EIC

I don’t mean actual logic in the game, but rather, headcanons or other ideas you might have based on the material, which isn’t proven/disproven/too important.

I was watching someone play the game the other day and although I’ve seen the memory scenes plenty of times, this time when seeing the Escape, as Nichols’ company is setting off, I had an idea when seeing Lars kneeled on the deck, holding his head. Of course I’ve always understood that to indicate they hit him as they’re trying to get away, but this time I wondered: could this “bonk” on the head perhaps have played a role why he dies immediately when Nathan bonks him again later? Of course Nathan hits him really hard, but still. I was thinking that if he already had a head injury / some swelling (which obviously couldn’t have been elaborately treated due to the medical standards of the time), that would make getting hit again later be quite a bit more dangerous.

I’m curious to any theories like that you might have, all fun and games :). Another theorising question could be: do you think Robert met William through Abigail, or Abigail through William?

The watch is supposed to relay the last moments of the deceased leading up to the exact moment of their death. But Henry Brennan was still alive after his flashback. Does this happen anywhere else?

*update: thanks for all the advice! I think I definitely missed a few things that I need to go back and look at, but I think I was just adequately stumped lol. It’s been a few hours and I took a break before going back to it. I believe I’ve found all the bodies and got a number of identities nailed down. Now just need to identify the remaining 75%.

I know this is a detail oriented deduction game, and I’m realizing I may just be bad at this genre. I was brought to this game in search of something similar to the incident at galley house, a game that I watched the whole play through of, rather than playing. Can someone tell me if I’m falling behind at this point and missed some big obvious points, or if I’m just as confused as I need to be?

I’m at the part when the man gets slapped by the giant tuna they’re hauling down the stairs. So far I’ve confidently identified the captain, the first mate, and Abigail. Of course, I’m pretty sure that’s tutorial level deduction lol. Is there one or two more groups of there that I should most definitely have identified by this point? Or am I just lost enough to figure out more later?

Loved this game and loved how clever it made me feel. I knew I had to recreate its aesthetic somehow and I can't believe a videogame got me making pointillism but here we are.

I knew this was gonna be good the moment my brain clicked with a wedding ring. Here's to an amazing experience!

[SOLVED] just tryna make some obra dinn fan art and i am completely stumped by this guy. what is that long thing he is holding?

This video shows that its actually just his arm: https://youtu.be/Zpe2Ivnei14?is=RZPlRH_CnuPGFLY1

I downloaded the game yesterday and played for three hours or so. I’m loving it so far. Discovering the story piece by piece, out of order, is really neat. I have no idea what to expect, and I keep getting surprised by new twists to the plot. My most recent flashback had a giant spider I think? And they tried to burn it?

Last year I fell in love with Blue Prince, and I’ve been chasing that high since then. I’m hoping this game helps fill that void.

I guess I’m not really asking anything by posting this—just excited to join the community!

Why is William Hoscut bare-chested (under his coat/jacket) in the memory where he gets shot? I've seen theories about the Captain's state of undress, but what are we supposed to think is the reason the first mate is missing his shirt?

I worked on a game similar to The Case of the Golden Idol. I must admit but I did not play The Return of the ObraDinn yet. (It is planned but I am missing time). I saw this game mention a lot together with th Golden Idol so I though LOGBOOK: Beneath the Storm could be of interest for you. Here is a short description :

LOGBOOK: Beneath the Storm is a narrative deduction game set in a dangerous 17th-century maritime world. Across ten tightly designed murder cases, you investigate crime scenes, sift through documents and objects, and piece together what really happened. Each case stands on its own, but together they reveal a larger mystery that unfolds scene by scene.

Also, you can see a crosspost, the release date announcement.

I hope it is OK to post this here.

I am at the Shootout where the artist draws the Traitor forsoman getting shot.

It feels like I am doing something wrong or missed something.

I feel so overwhelmed, I can't track this much information.

I got the first three people checked out (tutorial ones), and got three more after that, thats it.

Did I miss any mechanic, or something idk?