#Spooktober 20 – Return of the Obra Dinn

October 20, 2023

If you haven’t played this murder mystery, it’s high time you start. And I don’t care if the graphics look weird to you (they are), and if you suck at puzzles (I do): the game is a masterpiece in storytelling, the music kicks asses, and the whole thing has perfect atmospheres for the Haunted Season.

The Obra Dinn is a merchant ship in the East India Company, and it has been missing for five years. It has reappeared with no one alive aboard, and you’re the lucky inspector sent on board to try and figure out what the hell happened. And hell might be involved since the ghost ship seems to hide many secrets. Sixty people were on board, and for each of them you need to provide a cause of death – if any – or the current location if you think they survived. Deaths are linked, of course, but will you be able to reach the end of the thread and discover what set in motion the fateful events that doomed the Obra Dinn?

music and theatre

Ma se io avessi previsto tutto questo

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Summertime

Paths of the Mirror

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architecture, engineering and construction

The Universe within a Room

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