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Essays 22 June 2020, 02:32

author: Darius Matusiak

Return of the Obra Dinn. The most beautiful, unusual games

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  1. Release year: 2018
  2. Developer: Lucas Pope
  3. Genre: first-person adventure

Ghost ships has always been a worthy subject for writers or filmmakers, but for games it somehow failed to break through. So it's all the more worth a look at The Return of the Obra Dinn, where we assume the role of an insurance agent for the East India Company. Obra Dinn, in turn, is a ship that, after being lost at sea, returns to Port several years later, only without a living soul on board. By studying the tracks and the diary entries, we need to reconstruct the events of the past.

A detective production of the creator of Papers, please is notable for its graphic setting. The monochrome, two-color images were inspired by games for the first Macintosh computers of the mid-1980s. Macs at the time had just such one-bit monitors. And while these machines were popular mainly in the DTP industry, the list of games available for them turns out to be at least decent.

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Darius Matusiak

Darius Matusiak

Graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. He started writing about games in 2013 on his blog on gameplay.pl, from where he quickly moved to the Reviews and Editorials department of Gamepressure. Sometimes he also writes about movies and technology. A gamer since the heyday of Amiga. Always a fan of races, realistic simulators and military shooters, as well as games with an engaging plot or exceptional artistic style. In his free time, he teaches how to fly in modern combat fighter simulators on his own page called Szkola Latania. A huge fan of arranging his workstation in the "minimal desk setup" style, hardware novelties and cats.

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