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Return of the Obra Dinn

Return of the Obra Dinn is Lucas Pope's deduction game about the merchant brig Obra Dinn, which appeared off the Cape of Good Hope in 1807 with no one alive aboard. As an East India Company adjuster you carry the Memento Mortem, a watch that replays each corpse's final moment, and a book of the crew. Everything on the ship is evidence: language, nationality, a name called out in the dark. It is monochrome, exact, and completely its own thing.