The Witness Reviews

Inverted controls

isaiah41.10

Down is up and up is down. Please add this or I will get a refund. Thanks??

We need better control

denisvj

I dont like the controls, why is so hard to give us controls like the console.

The game won’t download, I’ve tried everything. Stopping and restarting, deleting and redownloading, restarting my phone, and all of the other things you would hypothetically suggest I do. It’s been downloading for two days now.

Severe battery drainage issue

tamuro2000

Just 3 hour game play drained my iPad Pro battery from 100% to 25%!! Unbelievable!!

Beautiful, mysterious, immersive

Gimmelston

Many games these days brag about being procedurally generated, so the content is always changing. Not this game. Every inch of this island has been carefully constructed, designed to serve a larger purpose. It is expansive, gorgeous, and mysterious. It is rich with wonder. You will want to live on this island forever to discover all of its secrets. You will accomplish things you at first thought impossible. You will feel like a genius and like a fool. You will feel something inside yourself begin to open, to expand. There is more to you than you know.

A successful puzzle adventure

BoomBoomChicaBoom

This is a great great game and very well suited for mobile. It reminds me of the Talos Principle, which I absolutely adore but which is also significantly less well suited for mobile (I played the desktop version). A beautiful little world to explore with a surprisingly mind bending assortment of puzzles all based around a very simple core concept. Just great puzzle design.

Great but not so battery friendly

iAi95

Din’t play if your charger isn’t nearby... 15 mins of play takes 40% battery on iPhone 6s

Good game, doesn’t look good on 6

GamerRage

The game is great, but has terrible quality on my my iPhone 6. It works great on the 6s, but I would like to be able to enjoy the game on my phone, especially after I spent $10 on it.

Lost Progress

Dijaff

I had started the game last week and was getting into it, had solved a bunch of puzzles. Just installed an update to the app (haven't gone to iOS 11 yet) and I login to find I've lost all my progress! It's very nicely dropped me back at the start of a new tunnel, and no ability to load my prior game. I know iOS can cause trouble and these things happen sometimes - my phone is probably low on space and memory - but stilllllll. I have had it for probably a week and it lost the whole game/concept that I had played before, not just recent progress. Please get save working better!

A game with something to say

nadeemps

Very, very few games use their main gameplay mechanic to pass a message instead of relying on text or cutscenes. From the symmetry island’s fading yellow lines to the monastery’s flashes of inspiration, this game teaches you an incredible language of satori. What few bits of dialogue exist serve to underscore the importance of the game’s message. The Witness says things in ways no book nor film ever could. One small suggestion for the iOS release: give a little haptic feedback for iPhone 7 and above whenever you hold down on a circle to begin tracing a path!

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