There’s a January happening soon. Sorry to bring it up, but there it is. By way of commiseration, however, there’s also a new Jon Blow game – his first since 2008 – in the form of The Witness. The first-person puzzler may be slow-moving, but its backdrop is a lush, Myst-like landscape. It’s beautiful. So will it run on your machine?
Blow’s last game, Braid, made our list of the best PC indie games.
Here are the basic requirements:
- OS: Windows 7
- Processor: 1.8GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 4000 series
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 4 GB available space
And the recommended specs:
- OS: Windows 7
- Processor: 2.4GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce 780
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Four gig isn’t very much at all – perhaps we’ve the sparsely-sketched textures of that art style to thank. The graphical requirements aren’t too painful either, particularly when you consider that The Witness looks like this. Cue slow-panning environment shot:
The Witness is out on January 26th. Think you’ll manage to solve some of Blow’s 600+ puzzles?