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The Witness

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
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Developer: Thekla, Inc. Publisher: Thekla, Inc.
Genre: Adventure, Indie
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Hungarian
Tags: Puzzle (844), Exploration (496), First-Person (439), Open World (394), Singleplayer (386), Colorful (319), Indie (303), Atmospheric (292), Difficult (288), Walking Simulator (254), Adventure (239), Mystery (146), Nonlinear (141), Philosophical (135), Relaxing (131), Surreal (98), Casual (86), Great Soundtrack (59), Beautiful (53), Story Rich (45)
Category: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Captions available, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, Family Sharing
Release date: Jan 26, 2016
Price: $9.99 75%
Score rank: 93% Userscore: 85% Old userscore: 85% Metascore: 87%
Owners: 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000
Ownership data: 2026-11-12 (UTC)
Followers: 121,363
Peak concurrent players yesterday: 275
Playtime total: 07:49 (average) 03:02 (median)

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