Braid Creator Jonathan Blow Teases the Scale of The Witness

It's already seven years since the release of Braid, the acclaimed platform puzzle game with its ingenious time-rewind mechanic. Since then, creator Jonathan Blow's been working on his follow-up - a 3D, first-person puzzle game called The Witness.

Seemingly more akin to something like Portal than Braid, The Witness offers up a remote island of intricately interlocking puzzles to solve. Blow's cited Myst as an influence, and there's certainly a hint of that game in The Witness's eerily deserted landscape.

With the game due out this year, Blow's been talking a little bit about The Witness's scale on Twitter. In a series of tweets, Blow mentioned that it took him six hours and 20 minutes to speed run through the game; by comparison, he said, Braid only took him "under 38 minutes" to finish.

"So The Witness is like 10 times as big as Braid," Blow said, before adding, "The time may change as the game continues to be worked on."

Given that Blow designed all the puzzles in The Witness - just as he did with Braid - that it took him six hours to finish suggests we're in for an even lengthier and more complex game than his previous title. 

If you haven't seen The Witness in action yet, here's Blow himself talking us through the game in a PlayStation Experience video from late last year. Some of those maze puzzles really do look fiendishly difficult.

The Witness is out this year on PlayStation 4, PC and iOS.

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