They are also given the Memento Mortem, a pocketwatch-like device that can be used on a corpse. To help track their progress, the player is given a logbook that includes a drawing of all the crew members, the crew roster, and blueprints of the ship. The game is played as a first-person adventure game, allowing the player to fully explore the Obra Dinn, using a monochromatic dithering style to mimic the shading and color methods of early computer games. Return of the Obra Dinn is effectively one large logic puzzle. The player is tasked with determining the fate of all souls on board, including their names, where and how they met their fate, who their killer was, and their location should they be alive. It has since washed up in port with all sixty passengers and crew dead or missing.
The Obra Dinn, insured by the East India Company, went missing in 1803 as it was to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. The Memento Mortem being used to investigate the cause of death of one of the crewmembers The game, played in first-person perspective, uses a "1-bit" monochromatic graphical style inspired by games on early Macintosh computers. Investigation is accomplished through the use of the "Memento Mortem", a pocket watch capable of transporting its user to the moment of death of any corpse located.
The player is dispatched to the ghost ship to perform an appraisal, reconstruct the events of the voyage, and determine the fates of all sixty souls aboard, providing a cause of death for those deceased or a probable current location for those presumed living. The Obra Dinn, a merchant ship missing for five years, has reappeared off the coast of England with no one alive aboard. The game is set in 1807 with the player assuming the role of insurance inspector for the East India Company. Return of the Obra Dinn was praised for its gameplay, art style, and narrative it won several awards including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize. It was Pope's second commercial game, following 2013's Papers, Please, and was first released for macOS and Windows before being ported to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One a year later. Return of the Obra Dinn is a 2018 adventure and puzzle video game created by Lucas Pope and published by 3909 LLC.
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