Games

Viewfinder

Sad Owl Studios

2023•Platformer•PEGI 3•About 6 hours

Taste attributes: actionadventurescience fictionanimalsrobots/ai/spacefastfresh & originallightimaginarylinearglossybig & variedemotionally undemandingsolving the riddle/not as it seems

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Boxlist takeA fantastical platformer that is inventive, expansive and glossy. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Pace: balanced · Originality: very fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score

IGDB rating

84 / 100

113 ratings

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About This Game

Viewfinder is a puzzle game where you can reshape the world around you by taking photos with an instant camera.

Summary: IGDB

Story

Viewfinder is an inventive first-person puzzle game built around a remarkable ability: to take photographs and two-dimensional images and place them into the world, where they become real, three-dimensional spaces the player can walk through and manipulate. This reality-bending mechanic serves a deeper story. The game is set inside a simulation created by a small team of researchers desperately working to solve an existential crisis: in the real world, all plant life on Earth has been wiped out, leaving humanity without a viable source of oxygen. The player character enters this digital space...

Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

ActionAdventureScience fictionAnimalsRobots/ai/spaceSolving the riddle/not as it seems

Keywords

PhysicsExperimentalAbstractNarrationEnvironmental puzzles

Where to play

Details

Developer: Sad Owl Studios
Publisher: Thunderful
Released: 18 July 2023
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
Modes: Single player
Perspective: First person
Time to beat: 4h rushed, 6h normally, 7h complete
Age rating: PEGI 3
Taste scores: How we score
Source: IGDB

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