Lucas Pope, developer of the hit indie sensation, Papers Please, has a brand new game that will release inside the next couple of months. Return of the Obra Dinn is a time travelling nautical adventure that's inspired by the Apple I era of gaming graphics and tasks players with figuring out just what happened to a missing vessel when it returns five years after it set sail.
"In 1802, the merchant ship "Obra Dinn" set out from London for the Orient with over 200 tons of trade goods," the game's blurb reads. "Six months later it hadn't met its rendezvous point at the Cape of Good Hope and was declared lost at sea. Early this morning of October 14th, 1807, the Obra Dinn drifted into port with sails damaged and no visible crew. As insurance adjustor for the East India Company's London Office, find means to board the ship and recover the Crew Muster Roll book for assessment."
That's the process that sets you off on a bizarre adventure that has you travelling back in time to see just what happened on the vessel, why were most of the crew seemingly murdered, often by each other? What happened to its haul of goods? Why did it go missing? And why has it now returned?
The game has been under development for a few years with very little in the way of updates from Pope outside of small devblogs on his official forum. He did however, release a demo a couple of years ago, which received a lot of attention at the time. We even covered its release here on Megagames. It's still available if you want to give it a try, but if you'd rather wait for the final experience, you only have a month or two to wait until you can get your hands on it.
Return of Obra Dinn will launch this Fall on Windows PCs and MacOS systems.
