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Gameplay

In Obduction, the player's character has been abducted from Earth by aliens and transported to one of several alien worlds, with the goal to try to find a way home. The game, played out as an adventure game from the first-person perspective, has the player exploring the environment of several different worlds, which includes a mix of alien landscapes and familiar human settings, solving puzzles, and making decisions that can influence how the game ends. The game features traditional navigation controls for first-person games as well as a node-based point and click system. Many objects in the game can be selected and examined in a full three-dimensional view, allowing the player to discover possible hidden drawers or features that aid in puzzle solving.

Plot

The player-character is at a park at night when they witness strange lights in the sky. Investigating further, they encounter a seed-like object that immobilizes the character before they lose consciousness. When they wake, they find themselves and a small sphere of the nearby area on an alien world, along with several other spheres of Earth transported there, such as a country house and a small early 20th-century Arizona mining town, all enclosed within a larger sphere-field that prevents them from leaving the Earth area. The town is strangely empty and seemingly abandoned, but hologram recordings of the town's mayor, Josef, reveal this place as Hunrath and that several humans from across the 20th and 21st century had been abducted across time and space to this planet. The player eventually finds C.W., an inventor from 1870, who has locked himself away to protect himself from some threat, and implores the player to help connect up power systems to allow him to return them to Earth.

As the player completes these tasks, they learn from journals left by other humans, including the previous mayor, Farley, that Hunrath is one of four «cells» created by the mother seeds of four Trees that are all linked across time and space to a Heart. The mother seeds cause large spherical areas on the respective world to be swapped with the same volume from a paired world through the Trees. In addition to Earth, these cells include portions of Soria (home of the technologically-advanced Mofang alien species), Kaptar (home to the insect-like Arai species), and Maray (home of the peaceful Villein species). Smaller seeds from the Trees fall with some frequency, seeking out species on that planet and then bringing them, along with a small sphere of the world around them, to the paired world. Humans in Mofang have been recording this for at least 150 years. Obduction Game free Download Full Version.

The player learns that they have arrived just after a major conflict between the abducted species. Initially, humans and the other species worked together to try to understand how the Trees and seeds worked, and were able to construct seed-swapping machines to travel between their respective cells for collaboration. The Mofang felt that the other species' were holding them back, and devised a plan to set off a weapon of mass destruction in the other cells so they could progress along unfettered. Mofang that were more allied with the other species learned of this plan, and the humans and Villeins took steps to «lock down» their cells to slow the Mofang, and most took shelter by entering cryogenic sleep within the Villein's «Silo» on Maray.

C.W., who had stayed behind to work on his plan to return their cell to Earth and believes the others are dead, instructs the player to restore water to the roots of each Tree, which will provide the energy needed to swap the cell back to Earth. The player proceed to do this for the cells from Hunrath, Kaptar, and Maray. While at Maray, the player discovers that a Mofang disguised as Mayor Josef had just been able to sneak in one of the Mofang's weapons before being discovered and killed by the Villeins. At this point, if the player attempts to touch the weapon (despite prior warnings not to), the weapon annihilates Maray, killing the player and all those in the Silo, ending the game. Alternatively, the player can remotely destroy the weapon, and restores water to its tree, while the Villein start to revive the sleep. Finally, the player enters the Soria cell to discover that the Mofang weapon set up on Kaptar had been sent back to Soria by the Arai some time in the past which wiped out most of the Mofang. Further, the player witnesses Earth outside of the Soria cell, but the Arizona landscape appears devastated by some type of massive event.

With the four Trees siphoning power, C.W. instructs the player to reconnect a large battery, a necessary element to pinpoint the cell's return to Earth, as well as to destroy the Mofang's bleeder that would siphon off the energy generated by the Trees and halt the process. The player can opt to connect the battery or leave it disconnected. If the player connects the battery, then C.W. initiates the swapping process and the Earth cell returns to Earth in the middle of the same devastated landscape seen before on Soria. Farley reports that she and only a few other humans had been able to make it back to Hunrath before C.W. swapped the worlds, and expresses disappointment at what C.W. had brought them back to. C.W. and the player can only look on as a massive dust storm overtakes the town. If the player disconnected the battery, C.W. becomes distraught when the process starts, believing they will end up in hell. When the swap is complete, they find Hunrath, as well as the other three cells, on a lush, green Earth-like planet, with the barriers on the cells destroyed. Farley contacts C.W. stating that she and all the humans and alien allies are awake now and they will soon join C.W. and the player to enjoy this new world. Obduction game free Download for PC Full Version.

Development

Following the release of Myst Online: Uru Live, Cyan's team began discussing what their next project should be, debating between another work in the Myst franchise, or an entirely new property. They opted for the latter option, as it would give them more freedom to create and not be limited by their established canon for Myst, though would risk alienating fans of the Myst series. Following its announcement and Kickstarter, the team discovered that fans were very open to the new direction, showing great interest in Cyan's puzzle and adventure approaches.

Obduction was formally announced on October 17, 2013, via a Kickstarter campaign headed by Cyan co-founder and CEO Rand Miller. The basic goal was set at US$1.1 million. Though Cyan had estimated it would take around $2.5 million to complete Obduction, they set a lower goal as to avoid appearing greedy, according to Miller, hoping to bring in at least a multiple of the initial request. In the accompanying video, Miller states that the video game is intended to serve as the spiritual successor to Myst and Riven. Taking inspiration from his earlier material, Miller remarked that the setting of a mysterious alien world would parallel the beginning experience of Myst. Noting that the announcement comes twenty years since the release of Myst, Miller emphasized that collaborators from the original two Myst games, as well as those who assisted in developing Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, would have a hand in Obduction's development. The campaign ended on November 16, surpassing the stretch goal of US$1.3 million, meaning that the game will also have support for the Oculus Rift. Though they did not bring as much as they desired, the success of the Kickstarter allowed them to engage with other funding mechanisms as to assure completion of the game.

Internally, the game was developed with the mantra of «Myst in space»; comparable to Myst's Ages, the player explores different alien worlds, with means to travel back and forth between them similar to the Linking books. Though they initially wanted to move away from being too Myst-like, treating the title as a spiritual successor, they found that during development they were naturally brought back to structuring the game similar to Myst. The game includes three non-player characters (NPCs), which originally were planned to be rendered and animated within the game's engine, but by March 2015, Cyan decided to return to the use of full-motion video of live actors that will be incorporated into the game, in the same manner as they used in Riven, with Miller considering that it was part of Cyan's legacy to be able to use this approach.

Robyn Miller, who composed the soundtracks for Myst and Riven before leaving Cyan, returned to work on Obduction's soundtrack and appear as an NPC in live action sequences. Rand had reached out for Robyn's help late in the projects' development, and the two recounted their earlier success during this. The two are considering a future project they would fully collaborate on together. Obduction Free Download Torrent.