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Return of the Obra Dinn is a narrative puzzle game where you play a shipping company agent assessing what happened on board a fictional East India Company ship where all the passengers have mysteriously died. Exploring the ship, you can revisit the moment of death for each body in order to identify each of the 60 crew members and how they died. It’s an imposing challenge that must be teased apart with patience, deductive reasoning, attention to detail and some guesswork.

Unfortunately, Return of the Obra Dinn is not available on Android, Mac, PC or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme, and at a lower age rating:

DetailsGame Details

Release Date: 18/10/2019

Out Now: PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Brain Game, Puzzle and Narrative

Accessibility: 21 features

Components: 3D First-Person and Pixels

Developer: Dukope (@Dukope)

Costs: Purchase cost

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Tangle Tower is a murder mystery game, from the same developer as Snipperclips, where you explore a grand old house and its intertwining families to solve a mysterious murder.

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25 Easier Skill Rating than Return of the Obra Dinn

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Tangle Tower is a murder mystery game, from the same developer as Snipperclips, where you explore a grand old house and its intertwining families to solve a mysterious murder.

Tangle Tower is a murder mystery game, from the same developer as Snipperclips, where you explore a grand old house and its intertwining families to solve a mysterious murder. You are given the events of the murder, each person's movement and a range of items to find.

I Am Dead is a puzzle game from the creators of Wilmot's Warehouse.

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