6 Best And Worst Things About Observation | Observation Review (PC) 

I've got what I expected and the interfaces and puzzles were neat, the story flew by and Kubric would be proud. It was entertaining for me because it've been exactly the thing I was looking for. SPOILER BELOW WE are the BORG. Or at least thats one way to interpret the ending. Having more than one voice in "our" head, being (wo)man and machine at the same time and "infecting" things with our touch to "bring them". I've had the feeling we've unleashed the Borg on Earth by surviving. I really wish we would've had a choice at some key moments, like deciding not to kill the captain, or play an active role with the sphere to land Emma safely and/or keep her at a safe approach speed and trajectory as shes doin' the unaided spacewalk jump of faith. I think the game would've benefited from having the ability to collect surviving crew members and "bring them" along to the final part of the story, even if only as observers.

I'm getting tired of FPS's being dressed up and re-released with no imagination so this looks interesting at least.

SPOILER The multiverse idea was a good aspect of the game imo.

After ADR1FT, Alien: Isolation, Observer & SOMA comes Observation as one of my favourites in the same line.

Honestly i got stuck a couple of times in the game's unclear missions too, and some tiny bug in and there, but i really loved it. Terrific atmosphere, fascinating story, and a true interactive ambient where you have to use you're brain to make thinghs work.

Alien: Isolation's graphics and claustrophobic corridors meet Gravity's spacewalks, science and problem-solving layered with Space Odyssey's supernatural sci-fi vibe and several HAL 9000 moments...overall pretty decent.

I'm getting Five nights at Freddy's meets night trap vibes. But in a good way. Also it's very much how I approach most IT problems. Say I know what I'm doing, then fumble around clicking all the icons until the thing I want happens

Appreciate your pointing out the publisher NoCode. Just that glimpse of " Stories Untold" was enough to entice. Thanks!

i LOVE this game ! space station wandering is great, story neat, core fiction only, but the end a bit ...too vague

I loved FAR Lone Sails and Inside, so I'm down for this. Thanks!

The Saturn reveal was fantastic so why, why WHY would you spoil it in the first 0.1 second of a review?

Thanks, Mathew, now I'm paranoid about my kitchen appliances! I loved Stories Untold and this game is definitely on my list.

Very interesting point of view Matt. There are clearly mixed feelings about this experience but yours intrigued me quiet a bit.

Really enjoyed the game, but my God did the glitching animation that occured with every little hit drive me INSANE! Also, play Deliver Us The Moon if y'all haven't yet!

am I the only one who realized the Probes you can use in Observation looks very similar, if not exactly the same to the alien drones you see in Stories Untold? Aswell as the tentacles you see coming out of the ground in the snowed-in area in Stories Untold are the tentacles that come from SAM and the alien being

I loved every bit of it, even the frustrating moments and the overall slow pace of the game.

I actually loved the ending, just because it was so vague... rarely a game has left me as intrigued to think and discuss about it after I have seen it (unfortunately I didn't play it, I've just finished a complete walk-through-video, but it was still great :D)...

I really enjoyed the game. The atmosphere it created I thought was good. A few things it could have done better obviously, but I overall enjoyed playing this game. My one complaint is that often I was over complicating things. I assumed there was information I had to gather or something I had to do, rather than Click a button (R on computer) and click somewhere on the screen. I often over complicated the process and lead to me taking a while to complete.

Here's my take on the ending SPOILERS BELOW I think that the raging storm on Saturn represents the great filter, and by successfully reaching it and thus interfacing directly with the hexagon, humanity has successfully evolved and passed the great filter. The evolution of humanity is thus represented as the combination of human and AI. That is the next step in humanity's evolution. Now who are the hexagons? I don't know, I guess another species that passed the great filter and is trying to push humanity beyond it as well.

This game was great but MY GOD was the sphere control motion-sickness inducing.

Great fun, except for the final "separation" puzzles, which are ridiculous if you are trying to use WASD keyboard controls. You really need a joystick to end this game! 10 sec countdown with oblique selections required -- not WASD-friendly.

Nice vid

the ending seems very interesting though so vague no one really knows what it meant or what was happening the whole time , only assumptions! Hope we get closure with a sequel.

I Loved Stories Untold and observer do a great work with tyr stoy telling elements🙌

Spoilers: I feel like the game would be ended better on entering Saturn, or on something like that. I loved the game, and the slight bits of weird felt right, even the multiverse, right until the Sam Change. I felt it could have been more vauge and more subtle and achieved a better affect. I also got stuck on things sometimes, I felt like the game could have been a little more clear. Other than that, I like this game a lot. It's a unique take that I enjoyed a lot.

I did enjoy this game a great deal. The ending was... Well... Unsatisfying to say the least. The only think I can really be upset about is the replayability. There is no reason to play it again once you have finished, and that can be a disappointment.

It’s a shame this wasn’t coop, I loved the video you made on that game with an annoying raven and a watch

OMG! That part at 10:32 made me so angry. I won't spoil it, but when I found out what to do, I'm like... You had to do that?

I really liked the game, and I liked the sci-fi/fantasy elements as well, but with the concepts they teased I was prepared to be disappointed by the story. I really enjoy sci-fi mysteries like in Observation, so overall the ending didn't fall as flat as I'd thought it would. Worth playing

I’m thinking of buying this game are the puzzles easy or hard

Overall, I was very happy with the game. I found the story line immersive, despite the simplistic tasks needed to progress the story line. I would have like to seen more complex puzzles. The details of the station are superb and the UI for the puzzles very well thought out. For the cost I'd give it a solid 7/10 and hope to see more from this dev. SPOILERS: It was fun to use my imagination to translate the symbols from the hexagon puzzles. At the end I almost expected there to be an "Adam & Eve" type scenario as some of the documents found on the station pointed to earth nearing crisis, and this event was a "reset". Or was it an Adam & Eve ending after all? I would have liked to have seen a few different endings based on decisions made around morality and when you're in front of the Hexagon on Saturn you'd be judged and get a suitable ending.

Just refunded the game after running into game-breaking bugs. For one, I was able to use an inside control panel while I was outside and ended up glitching through the wall of a part of the station I was definitely not supposed to be in yet and couldn't get back out. I also don't understand why they didn't add volume settings in their game, not to mention the beginning issues with the language settings or the lack of them to be exact. Could've been good but unfortunately, it just isn't, at least for me.

Yea, too many times i had to reset my game that i thought i have encountered a game breaking bug, but turns out i just missed a step because the objectives being too unclear. And i agree. This game is UI porn..

I'll watch a walkthrough video by others for future games by this developer, as while I enjoyed the art, the gameplay interaction - the variety of mundane mini-puzzles and memorization hidden behind clever interfaces - I found tedious and an unwelcome interruption to the story. I can see where others might find the puzzle bits more engaging/immersive to the story, but my experience was just suffering through them to move the story along. A similar review for Stories Untold, except the ending for that one felt like more of an annoying PSA. The ending for this one was appropriately vague for the themes covered.

never played a refreshing game like this in years , it has alien isolation vibe too , the only negative thing is that the game sometimes treats u like ur actually an astronaut like how tf am i suppose to know that smh

The story is great but oh boy is this not fun to play. May just look up the ending so I don't have to deal with this gameplay

Well, I found the ending (and really, the entire thing) to be a whole lot of nothing. The final puzzles are the same as the first puzzles - the game gives you the answer and you simply tap it in via an irritating interface. There's an ending sequence which had some technical issues for me (unintended clipping through the environment for a lot of it which left the screen flickering and me seeing outside of the level) and concluded with some done-to-death sci-fi stuff that was even less surprising than I'd expected. The sparse dialogue hints that you went through some kind of arc but there wasn't one present while playing, in the storytelling or the mechanics. Ultimately it's the kind of thing I would probably have overvalued and oversold to people when I was younger, mistaking vagueness for intelligence and forgiving the numerous annoyances as an uncompromised vision. If the story or gameplay were compelling I could easily forgive the other, but neither really worked for me. If you're after beautiful retro-future interiors and a scary atmosphere, play Alien Isolation. If you're after a great puzzle game with some rumination on the nature of AI and the soul, play the Talos Principle (or the Turing Test, or The Swapper). If you want to pipe hot existential dread straight into your consciousness, play Soma. If you want 2001, just watch 2001. I can't recommend this above any of those, even for the £7 I paid in the EGS sale. I'd be a bit bummed out if I'd paid £20 for this. The 9/10s I'm seeing dotted around are totally mystifying, the metro review (which I hadn't seen until a moment ago, after writing all of the above!) has a more accurate take on it from my perspective: It’s upsetting to play a game that has clearly had so much effort expended on it; as you realise that all its obvious potential is slowly being drained away, like oxygen out of a leaky spaceship. The fact that you’re an AI rather than a human has almost no bearing on the story or your interactions, and the denouement is entirely underwhelming. It’s a rare video game that has both good storytelling and a good gameplay, but either on their own can still be perfectly compelling. Observation has neither. In Short: 2001 is hardly the most obvious movie to use as inspiration for a video game and perhaps predictably the end result suffers from slow-pacing and a lack of meaningful interaction. Pros: Fantastic visuals and a stunning, and impressively realistic, portrayal of space travel. Great music and atmosphere. Cons: Extremely dull and simplistic gameplay that goes out of its way to be as slow-paced as possible. Predictable and unsatisfying story that lacks originality and narrative depth. Score: 3/10 The gameinformer review is especially weird, "I ripped through Observation in one six-hour sitting, propelled forward by the novel blend of challenging puzzles and gripping storytelling.". The game's three hours long even with a good bit of getting lost, the puzzles have zero challenge (the answer is literally printed on the screen next to where you input the answer half the time) and the storytelling is increasingly uninteresting as it progresses. Their suggestion that the replay value is "moderately high", and that "navigating the station is easy thanks to a snappy interface and simple controls" makes it sound like they played something else entirely. Ah well, I'm glad to see that some people are enjoying/buying stuff from a small UK developer at least. I picked up stories untold when it was free too, I'll give it a go.

Why can't graphics be sharp anymore? Bloom, blur, chromatic aberration and CRT effect make this look so muddy.

Um....spoilers?

This is another automatic pass due to being a Epic exclusive. Might get it on a Steam sale in the future, if I remember it’s existence, so not that likely.

This game is a bit too hard for me tbh

It should also be said that if you want to play it on PC, it's only on the Epic Games store, which I have been hesitant to start using, especially as some developers have been a little unhappy with them lately. At the same time, there's currently 10 euros off any purchase on their store atm, and (thanks to this video) I really want to play this game, so I just took the plunge and picked it up for about 9 euros.

i liked the gameplay but i honestly thought the story was really bad. so much shit was introduced but not explained

Spoiler It was all a simulation. Wait... Wrong game.

Second :)

Almost a verbatim ripp off of Space odissey. Lame.

One of the worst games I ever came across. Game design and gameplay is awful. Today's game developer don't know how to make good games.