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Orten Was The Case

94% positive of 127 Steam reviews

Released: 2023
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam, Epic, Xbox / PC Game Pass, PlayStation

Made by Woodhill Interactive.

About the game

Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.

Tagged by players

Time Manipulation
Conspiracy
Metroidvania
Time Management
Dystopian
Detective
Nonlinear
Dark Humor
2.5D
Mystery
Lore-Rich
Open World

What players say

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Orten Was The Case

94% positive of 127 Steam reviews

View on Steam

Released: 2023
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam, Epic, Xbox / PC Game Pass, PlayStation

Made by Woodhill Interactive.

About the game

Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.

Tagged by players

Time Manipulation
Conspiracy
Metroidvania
Time Management
Dystopian
Detective
Nonlinear
Dark Humor
2.5D
Mystery
Lore-Rich
Open World

What players say

Recommended
Orten Was the Case is a beautiful and incredibly well-thought-out game. The art style is one of its strongest features. At times, it genuinely feels like you are playing inside a painting. The time-loop structure is also extremely well designed, and you can really feel how much work must have gone into making all the different events, characters and locations fit together within the same repeating timeline. The…
14 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Recommended
This game is such an incredible flavor! The gritty street setting, the characters that become more complex with each pass through the time loop, the complexity put into the puzzles. I would never have imagined that a game consisting of a 12ish minute loop could introduce me to a world with so much detail and energy and subtle nuance. I have not yet finished and there is clearly so much more mystery for me to unravel…
6.7 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
I am not good at playing timed games. This is one of them. I am confused at where to go. When I restart the game the next evening, I am required to re-do the time loop. Whcih means I have to do achunk of the game anew. And I already forgot where to go from the previous day. I am stuck. Obviously, the game has its own followers who are good at playing it, but I am not one of them. As such, I cannot recommend the game…
1.8 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.
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