The Witness

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You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you. You don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you got here, but there's one thing you can do: explore the island in hope of discovering clues, regaining your memory, and somehow finding your way home.

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Developer:
Thekla, Inc
Engine:
Custom built engine
Release date:
26 January 2016
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (118)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (8795)

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Description

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

You don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you got here, but there's one thing you can do: explore the island in hope of discovering clues, regaining your memory, and somehow finding your way home.

The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler; each of those puzzles brings its own new idea into the mix. So, this is a game full of ideas.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows 7
Processor:
1.8GHz
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
Intel HD 4000 series
DirectX:
Version 10
Storage:
5 GB available space

recommended*

OS *:
Windows 7
Processor:
2.4GHz
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce 780
DirectX:
Version 10
Storage:
5 GB available space

User reviews

Zarvanis
Recommended | 20 May 2026
20.5h played

The Witness? More like Pretentious Myst, amirite? All jokes aside, this is a very good puzzle game that does overstay its welcome. It took me 20 hours to beat it without a guide, but I could've shaved many hours from

Helpful: 4
ᓚᘏᗢ
Not recommended | 19 May 2026
34.2h played

its fun enough, for most of the game. there's lots of creative ideas and a pretty world to explore. unfortunately, its like the game is trying to fight against you actually playing it with incredibly tedious animations

Helpful: 3
DruminFoo
Recommended | 27 May 2026
13.3h played

This is a genius game. My only gripe is the sometimes very pretentious audio recordings of people philosophizing. It feels like the game is presuming to tell you what ideas you should subscribe to. But those few moments

Helpful: 3
Elosy
Recommended | 26 May 2026
7.6h played

If you like puzzles even a very little bit, just play it. It's a life changer, at least for a while after you finish it. You will see, lol. Also, after you finish it, look for the easter egg ending at the start of the

Helpful: 0
willjosh44
Not recommended | 30 May 2026
29.0h played

not for me. Its a mobile game style draw the line grid puzzle. seperate the shapes, patterns, etc. Theres only so many times i can do that and it introduces varies rules that it doesnt tell you to keep this grid line

Helpful: 2
Chris
Recommended | 21 May 2026
8h played

This is one of my favourite games. It's just a ton of well-designed logic puzzles in a nice environment, but there is plenty of depth that makes it magical. I will say that if you don't enjoy logic puzzles in general,

Helpful: 1