The bird of the North

🔸 EXPECTATIONS: a narrative deduction game, Obra Dinn style. 🔸 REALITY: a short narrative deduction game inspired by Obra Dinn. 🔷 The Bird of the North doesn't hide its main point of inspiration: The Return of the Obra Dinn. From the main gameplay mechanic, to the music (those bells!) and its art. It's not at the same level of its reference, but it gives the formula a spin and explores interactions in a way that can lead to great results. Here's how they are different: 🔹 Gameplay wise we don't roam the scenes freely. We can observe a static (and completely in 3D) scene, giving a snapshot of a point in time of the story, but from birds' eyes. And I mean literally: we can jump from bird to bird in the scene, and look around from their positions, giving us different (spatial) perspectives. That helps give the impression that we are not really there, since we are not 'boots on the ground', we're just looking at the past god-like style. In the end, this is only used to present large scenes where multiple groups of characters interact between each other, in clusters, and I wish some scenes required to look at the environment from different angles to discover details only seen from …

The game is fun, but quite short if you can figure out general dialogue routes. Presuming that you finish it in two hours, this would be $3.50 for each hour of play, which might not be worth it to some people. I'd say it's overall fine, though, and if the demo intrigues you, the price tag should be acceptable.

A fun, though short, story and deduction game. Very clearly inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn, so if you like that game and want something similar, you should give this a try! While it doesn't reach the same heights of puzzle or story as its inspiration, it's still an enjoyable single-session story for you to put in order.

Short but awesome game from start to finish !

Excellent game! It's a great homage to Obra Dinn, plays really well, tells a good story, and is just the right amount of difficulty (don't expect a big challenge). A delicious 2 hours adventure that is worth every penny.

Short but sweet, the puzzles are well constructed to be solveable without being too easy.