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RE: Get our #gaming together - Share what you're playing
I just finished Return of the Obra Dinn. It's a relatively short indie game, it took me a dozen hours to finish it. It's an amazing little origami of a game and very unique in style and content. You investigate the deaths of sixty people on a ghost ship in 1807, and in so doing, body after body, you reconstruct the full story of their doomed cruise. I think the star of the show is the ship itself, explored through multiple vignettes of daily life in the age of sail.
The art style is lovely. What is it, though? FPS? Exploration?
There's no combat. You explore the ship and when you find a body, you use a magic watch to 'see' the instant of death, in stop motion. But once you're in that moment, you can look around: see who or what killed him, who else was present, and what was happening in the meantime in the immediate vicinity of the death. So it's a puzzle game of sorts; to see the full picture and find your answers you have to follow all the clues hidden in plain sight through all the death scenes.