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Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium, Dark Souls, and Return of Obra Dinn were among the mentioned titles.

Really cool to see an investigation style game like Obra Dinn with such a minimal UI.

If you count names and causes of death as separate puzzles, Return of the Obra Dinn is around 100 puzzles long.

If you liked Obra Dinn you should try out 'The Roottrees are Dead'.

Like, taking a couple of artsy-ish games, how much does Return of the Obra Dinn or Outer Wilds really change the player as a person (even if the end of the latter is particularly emotionally poignant)?

> how much does Return of the Obra Dinn or Outer Wilds really change the player as a person?

The visuals are original and very well done, so much that it is now almost impossible to talk about dithering without mentioning the Obra Dinn at some point.

> how much does Return of the Obra Dinn or Outer Wilds really change the player as a person (even if the end of the latter is particularly emotionally poignant)?

I also loved the conceit of the Obra Dinn but the visual style made me feel physically ill to the point I couldn't continue with the game.

Another great one-man-team is Lucas Pope, creator of Papers Please and (currently in development, but the demo has already seen great reception) The Curse of The Obra dinn, as well as a few Ludum Dare games.

There's been some other methods that essentially create a dither texture on the surface itself but, to me at least, this has a different quality than the "screen space" dithering that Obra Dinn employs.

The ending is mind-blowing, and, similar to Return of the Obra Dinn, the whole universe story is weaved perfectly, everything falls into place at the end.

Lucas Pope did a really nice write up on how he developed his dithering system for Return of The Obra Dinn.

One of the most effective ways to see this at play is watching most recorded Let's Plays of Return Of The Obra Dinn.