The Witness 2016

Is it still worth playing?

Thekla's 2016 first person puzzle game, in which you emerge from an underground bunker onto an island of structures and natural formations, with a mountain at its center as the goal. No text or dialogue explains the rules. Every puzzle is solved by drawing a path on a grid, which starts at a round node, ends on a rounded line segment and cannot cross itself, with extra rules that vary by puzzle. The island is divided into eleven regions you can explore in any order, and you can move on when stuck. Some optional puzzles hide a single path across the environment, visible only from the correct viewpoint. There are more than 650 puzzles, and you do not have to solve them all to finish. Each puzzle is a small discovery: you work out the rules yourself, and you can still leave a region when you are stuck.