The Witness Game Guide & Walkthrough (2024)

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Solve them all! This guide for The Witness will provide you with all information necessary to complete this difficult logic game. Simple solutions to puzzles is not the only thing that you will find here.

Last update: 06 March 2019

This guide for The Witness will provide you with all information necessary to complete this difficult logic game. Simple solutions to puzzles is not the only thing that you will find here. Predominantly, this guide includes descriptions of all the rules that govern individual puzzles, thanks to which you will be able to find a solution for the majority of them, without pondering on the rules. Of course, even if some of the puzzles turn out to be too demanding, in spite of hints, you can find exact solutions for them in this guide. The text also provides exact whereabouts of audiologs hidden in the world of The Witness, thanks to which you learn about the mysterious storyline of the game. The Witness is an adventure game with sophisticated logic elements, developed by the author of Braid and his Number None studio. The game takes place on a large mysterious island where, for unknown reasons, all people disappeared suddenly. The game is about exploration of the extensive world, solving puzzles, as well as about finding various traces and clues thanks to which you will be able to solve mysteries of this world

Lukasz "Salantor" Pilarski

The Witness in a nutshell

The Witness is an adventure game with logic elements. The game is a spiritual successor to the Myst series. The game was developed by the creator of Braid and his studio, Number None.

The Witness is set on a large island. For some reason, all of its inhabitants have disappeared. The game focuses on exploring the island, solving puzzles and finding hints that will help you discover the secrets of this place.

The action is presented from the first-person perspective. The core of the game is to explore the island and solve puzzles. The Witness requires good perception and the ability to make connections. There are no tips here. You need to find and connect all pieces of a puzzle to solve it.

General tips

You are stuck but you want to solve a puzzle yourself? Below you can find a few tips that will help you do that.

  1. Take a walk around the island. Do that after you leave the fort. Ignore all puzzles on your way and focus on locations. Visit each one of them and memorize their locations. Check the paths and locked shortcuts leading to them.
  2. Choose which puzzles you want to solve first. You can explore the entire island. The puzzles can be solved in any order. In many cases, you will have to go back to a given puzzle due to its difficulty. It is possible that one of the puzzles near the Fort will be too difficult for you. You can also find a puzzle located on the opposite part of the island that will be a piece of cake. If you have problems with a certain puzzle, leave it for later. There is a chance that you will find the solution in another place.
  3. Look around. The hints are around you. Pay attention to the shapes of items near a given puzzle. Look at panels from different angles and perspectives - from above, from a side, from behind, by standing behind another object, from up close and from a distance. Pay attention to the surroundings and look for similar objects. Sooner or later, you will find the solution.
  4. The most important thing to keep in mind is a puzzle's location. If a puzzle is in ruins of a temple of the sun, there is a high chance that the sun will be the key. If a puzzle is in shadows, try to use them to find a solution. Try to match rocks of different size by standing in the right place etc. The majority of the hints are near a puzzle.
  5. Pay attention to where you are standing. You can solve a puzzle only when its panel isn't obstructed by anything. You can't draw a line through obstacles or outside the screen. In other words, you need to stand in front of a panel throughout the entire process of solving a puzzle (some of them will require you to stand behind a panel or next to it).
  6. Adjust your mouse's sensitivity. All puzzles require you to draw a line in a maze. High mouse sensitivity will lead to many mistakes, especially when a maze consists of diagonal lines.

If these tips aren't enough, check out the chapter dedicated to general hints.

Walkthrough

The entire island is divided into smaller locations. Each one of them has puzzles that require you to use certain environment elements or a perspective. Our guide has walkthroughs for all the locations.

  1. The Fort
  2. The Fort Surroundings
  3. Waterside Workshop
  4. Rock
  5. The Garden
  6. Temple of the Sun
  7. Monastery
  8. Swamp
  9. Greenhouse
  10. Tree House
  11. Quarry
  12. Forest
  13. Jungle
  14. Keep
  15. The Town
  16. Mountain

Additional secrets

Some of the secrets are in places in-between locations or after fulfilling specific requirements.

  1. Shipwreck
  2. Challenge
  3. Audiologs outside locations

The Witness PC system requirements

The Witness runs on a 3D engine, but the graphics are rather simplistic. Thanks to that, the game has low system requirements.

Minimum system requirements

  1. OS: Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10
  2. CPU: 1.8 GHz
  3. RAM: 4 GB
  4. GPU: DirectX 9.0 support - Intel HD 4000
  5. HDD space: 4 GB

Recommended system requirements

  1. OS: Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10
  2. CPU: 2.4 GHz
  3. RAM: 8 GB
  4. GPU: supporting DirectX 10 - Nvidia GeForce 780
  5. HDD space: 4 GB

About The Witness Game Guide & Walkthrough

Author : Lukasz "Salantor" Pilarski for gamepressure.com

Translator : Slawomir "Szczur" Niejadlik, Marek Cendrzak

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Guide contains : 58 pages, 749 images.

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The Witness Video Game

  • genre: Puzzle
  • developer: Thekla, Inc.
  • publisher: Thekla, Inc.
  • platform: PC, PS4

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