Return of the Obra Dinn
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Oct 27, 2026
Daniel SanfordHOST
Yeah.
Daniel SanfordHOST
Yeah, but when I looked at the trailer for The Return of Obra Dinn, my first thought was actually, it was like if you took the opening cutscene of Link's Awakening on the Game Boy, but made it like an interactive 3D world, if that makes sense.
EuanGUEST
Yeah, it is.
EuanGUEST
Game Boy style perhaps would be another good way to describe it.
EuanGUEST
Yeah.
EuanGUEST
And there's a whole bunch of theories as to what happened to it.
EuanGUEST
So this is the return of the Albertan is kind of like in that's
Daniel SanfordHOST
working within that space.
Michael HannonHOST
This is a kind of like a investigative deduction sort of thing.
Michael HannonHOST
I think if you're looking like a Blueprints, an Obra Dinn, if you're wondering why I'm avoiding the term metrobrania is because I think that term is garbage and I'm not going to say it.
Michael HannonHOST
But I think it's that kind of thing of getting clues, filling out a journal, you know, getting deeper and deeper into this.
Alexander JollyHOST
this manner, so I think that's
KimHOST
Like you look at the scene, you can observe things and then you can like go into the past and observe what, you know, what happened in the past and the people who were there.
KimHOST
And it's basically an Obra Dinn like, but it has this like incredible, the story is immediately intriguing because there's something that happened with this fire that like, You meet kind of like the the like boatman who like brings you to this like down the river to this town.
KimHOST
Like does he's like she's like, oh, you've you were here during that that fire.
KimHOST
Like, what can you tell me about it? And he like does not want to talk about it.
11 MINS LATER
Cameron SwingleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When I say everything is done manually, I mean that the game tells you information down to kilojoules of impact force, black powder charge mass, material density, and the physical profile of the ammo you're using.
Cameron SwingleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You complete shooting range puzzles, make some money to improve your equipment, and uncover a paranormal mystery.
Cameron SwingleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Did I mention that the whole main loop is actually contained within a larger UI RPG within a directory of declassified government software? Or that the characters in said program are referred to as living inhabitants? Or that it all looks like Return of the Obra Dinn and shit keeps levitating? I can't recommend Ballistic.exe enough to the Foddyheads or physics nerds among us.
Cameron SwingleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Luna agrees.
ThalenHOST
Go.
KodraHOST
Okay, so what I will say is, one of the things that we discovered, because I was like, hey, you're enjoying all of these games, why don't I boot up Obra Dinn and see how you feel about that? Obra Dinn does not work.
KodraHOST
It is a third-person view, a first-person view where you are moving the camera, and that causes motion sickness.
KodraHOST
Ah,
Alice BellHOST
Mm
Jon HicksHOST
... it's like, um, Obra Dinn where if you get, if you get three of them correct, then it go, then it plays a little sound, and it locks those three in, and you can gradually kind of work your way through it.
Jon HicksHOST
The main challenge in it is that because it's medieval, there's a bunch of weird lingo in it.
Jon HicksHOST
So as well as, you know, you've got to sort of...
Jon HicksHOST
I sat down to play it, and I kind of just puzzled away at it, and it was one of those things where I sat down at sort of 10 o'clock at night, and I finished it at, like, half past one in the morning.
Jon HicksHOST
And then, like, I just sort of tore through it in one continuous thing.
Jon HicksHOST
It's, it's just, it, it is broadly speaking, it's the same Root Trees experience, which was itself a slightly diminished take on the Obra Dinn experience.
Jon HicksHOST
It has, like Root Trees, it's been, and indeed the incident at Gally House, it has now been picked up by a, uh, speculative publisher who is, uh, dolling it up and doing a Steam version of it that I'm sure will be, uh, more fancily presented and have more stuff in it.
SadieHOST
The Root Trees Are Dead, like puzzle investigation game a la the Case and Rise of the Golden Idol, which I really loved.
SadieHOST
Also a la like Obra Dinn has quite a few Obra Dinn inspirations in it.
LilyHOST
In it.
SadieHOST
In it.
OllieHOST
So yeah, you're a debt collector, and there's, like, other things.
OllieHOST
I've just basically gone with, like, Obra Dinn, but, like, a different variant of it.
OllieHOST
[chuckles]
TristanHOST
It, it feels like a mixture of, like, Obra Dinn mixed with, uh, Schedule I.
OllieHOST
Yeah, yeah, basically, yeah.
TristanHOST
Yeah.
Adam VianGUEST
It's exquisite.
Adam VianGUEST
As a puzzle designer, um, that and Obra Dinn are kind of, like, the pillars that you can look up to, you know?
Hamish SteeleHOST
Yeah, mm-hmm.
Hamish SteeleHOST
And then finally, if Detective Grimoire and Sally were investigating the murder of Mario, who do you think would be the culprit, and what would be their motivation?
Mike AlbertinHOST
There's some things about this remind me of
TylerPANELIST
another better game, Return of the Obra Dinn, which some of these mechanics, you know, trying to figure out what happened to these corpses.
TylerPANELIST
You know, this comes up in Obra Dinn, but it's done in a much more interesting way.
DominicPANELIST
Better in
TylerPANELIST
every way.
TylerPANELIST
Everybody go play Return of the Obra Dinn.
TylerPANELIST
It's fantastic.
DominicPANELIST
To my knowledge, Obra Dinn is also kind of like, you have to put the pieces together in the game of like, this person died doing this, this person shot this
Simon ByronHOST
Some games make a feature of this rule or logic discovery.
Simon ByronHOST
Is there a name for this? And do you have any favourites? The Witness and Obra Dinn are two that jumped to mind.
Simon ByronHOST
I love Obra Dinn.
Simon ByronHOST
I'm less hot on The Witness.
Simon ByronHOST
Sue me.
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