The Witness
There’s no way around it, The Witness is a mind-shattering beast of a game. It’s jam-packed full of mysteries on top of mysteries.
The game starts with the player in a tunnel. Opening the door, you then enter a courtyard. Solve a couple of the line-puzzles, and you open the gate, allowing you to boldly strike out across the island. And from there, hundreds of puzzles, secrets, and locked doors await.
A bit of an outlier, The Witness does feature dialogue and video clips. Save for a handful of audio logs that are so well hidden that they qualify more as easter eggs, these aren’t telling you a story. Instead they are quotes about philosophy, logic, and religion.
The Witness doesn’t tell you a narrative, hoping you’ll pull greater insight from it. It simply gives you pieces of insight, and grants you access to a logic-controlled world where the narrative is just you, learning. There are very few things the human mind can’t wrap itself around. We just need the time, and the right steps to get there.
