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Return of the Obra Dinn - Game of the Month Club

  • Babycastles 147 West 14th Street New York, NY, 10011 United States (map)
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February's game of the month is Return of the Obra Dinn hosted by Orien Joseph Longo.

~ New Time~ Doors are at 7pm! Talk starts at 7:30!
Suggested Donation: $5-$10. No one is turned away for lack of funds.

Return of the Obra Dinn is a first-person puzzle/mystery game where you play as a chief inspector of the British East India Company, sent to investigate the sudden reappearance of the "Obra Dinn", a merchant vessel thought to be lost at sea five years ago. Your job: find out what happened to the ship's crew and document how they died, and who or what killed them. Questioning a ship full of skeletons won't be easy, but luckily you have been provided with a magical book and the "Memento Mortis" - a watch that shows you the moment of someone's death.

Created by Lucas Pope, the one-man team behind 2013's Paper's Please, critically-acclaimed Return of the Obra Dinn is equal parts Myst and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, with just a dash of Lovecraftian horror, told through the 1-bit dither of a 1986 Macintosh Plus.

After being in development for four and a half years, with programming, design, art, sound and music by Pope. The game was released for the PC on October 18th, 2018, following ports to the PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One a year later on October 19th 2019. It went on to win the 2019 IGF Award for Excellence in Narrative & the Seumas McNally Grand Prize; Best Narrative at the 2019 Game Developers Choice Awards; and Best Art Direction at the 2018 Game Awards as well as multiple nominations for Game of the Year and Best Indie Game.