I don't think the game is awful (I actually enjoyed most of the puzzles that I got to), but I wouldn't recommend it. As soon as you start the game, there's no direction or story for the player. My experience with the first few hours was that the environment was pretty and there's lots of things to check out around every corner, but without any motivation, I got bored fast.

I could have sworn that I had 20+ hours in game, but was surprised that I only had about a third of that. The game just drags on and without any direction, any progress feels meaningless.

I eventually realized that I just didn't care what happened and moved on.

i have only played for 3 hours but it feels like ten times that amount, the biggest issue is that there is no guidance on where you should be going, and there is no way to know if a puzzle you find should be solvable with your current understanding of the game, the chance you run into something you can solve was very low in my experience

so i feel like the game just is either too hard for me or just drops you too early to figure it out on your own

if you like games that dont hold your hand at all and you want to break your brain trying to figure out what to do and how to do it you will love this game

on paper i should love it but unfortunately i just got stuck and lost motivation to keep trying, ill probably give it another shot at some point

Have you ever missed the point-and-click-puzzles-on-an-island of Myst, but wished it didn't have any of that pesky *world-building*, *plot*, or *characters* in the way? Do you think more video games should contain 30-minute-long recorded philosophy lectures of ill repute? Do you go to gaming to feel more intelligent than other players? Do you really, REALLY enjoy drawing lines through boxes?

If you said yes to any of the above statements, you may enjoy The Witness. I did for maybe 1/6th of its runtime.