The Witness is Coming to Xbox One Next Month

The Witness is Coming to Xbox One Next Month

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Alan Pettit

Jonathan Blow of Thekla, Inc. has announced via the Xbox Wire that his acclaimed exploration puzzle game The Witness will be coming to Xbox One. The Witness released earlier this year on PC and PS4, receiving extremely good reviews from critics and gamers alike. It currently sits at an 87 on Metacritic. Blow had this to say about his creation:

"The Witness is a pretty unconventional game. You wander through an open world, so you can explore whatever catches your eye. Throughout the island you’ll find many puzzles, all with different themes. But these puzzles aren’t just arbitrary and meaningless; they communicate ideas. As you play the game, you’ll find yourself absorbing a nonverbal language, and you’ll know what to do even if you can’t quite explain what you know.

In the process of releasing The Witness, we’ve learned a lot about the way people play it. Some people blaze through puzzles and finish the game in 25-30 hours; some people take their time really investigating details, and spend over 100 hours exploring, finding new things the whole time. To my surprise, The Witness is a really good game to play with a friend, even though I didn’t design it that way; we’ve received a lot of notes from people who had a great time playing with their wives/husbands/girlfriends/boyfriends.

This is a game containing a lot of surprises. I recommend going into it without spoilers. If you get stuck, or something seems difficult, you can turn around and go somewhere else, and come back to the hard problem later. Elsewhere on the island you might find clues to the thing you’re stuck on, and you may have a very enjoyable experience when you make the right connections. On the other hand, if you look for answers in online videos and online forums, you’re likely to have an empty experience — you’ll know the answer, but you will have skipped over the good part of the experience. The most enjoyable part of this game is what happens in your mind when connections come together."

The Witness will be available on September 13th. No price was announced, but it sells for $39.99/€36.99/£29.99 on PC and PS4, we should expect the same price point on Xbox.

Comments
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  • Mediocre!
  • I don't know how the game really is, I was just going along with the Mad Max thing.
  • Ummm...$40?
  • Although $40 is a bit steep for this, it is a great game. I would consider $30 fair. $40 is a bit pricey, but I'll still probably snap it up. Only watched Dan play it for a while on stream that one time he decided to take suggestions.
  • Ummm...$40 is right. I'll wait for a sale. My price point for this will be about $20. And, what is up with Screenshot #15? Looks like development mode.
  • No buy. :) :)
  • Be nice if it had a retail copy, I don't like paying that much and not having a disk.
  • Sweet i was hoping this was coming to the xbox.
  • Every time I see this and I think, "Oh they rebooted Myst, how lovely." While I would love to play this at some point, $40 is a bit steep. Come talk to me when its at least half that.
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