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Viewfinder

Publisher: Thunderful Publishing
18 July 2023
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42 Ratings /
#3,342 All-time
#81 for 2023
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First-person puzzler#15 Science fiction#756 Logic puzzle#87 Dystopian#81
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Photography Puzzle platformer 3D platformer Surrealism
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences
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This was an interesting exploration of a (very) cool mechanic but I left feeling more like I played a tech demo than a puzzle game. It seemed like they didn't flesh out the mechanics in creative ways and relied too heavily on just copying and pasting level sections to get to other level sections. I think the issue is that the central mechanic is so powerful that they had to scramble to find ways to constrain it and couldn't really land on anything that would build into new interesting systems and mechanics.

Also, the early story beats (recorded dialogue + quick view of the outside world) hint at a much more interesting story than what actually takes place.
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hazardintherain Viewfinder 2024-04-18T07:46:08Z
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TCC Viewfinder 2024-04-13T02:27:09Z
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cultofbabies Viewfinder 2024-04-09T11:14:31Z
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worstcaseontario Viewfinder 2024-03-13T11:46:47Z
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5.5 /10
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Wolis Viewfinder 2024-03-06T21:43:00Z
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dwodimw27 Viewfinder 2024-03-06T10:22:12Z
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NarsU Viewfinder 2024-03-03T00:47:11Z
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2.5
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beekbirb Viewfinder 2024-03-01T19:38:31Z
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B+
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wilkeys Viewfinder 2024-02-27T06:04:46Z
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3.5
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akkidyy Viewfinder 2024-02-12T17:14:52Z
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5.0
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Purple_Orb Viewfinder 2024-02-10T14:21:26Z
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dannymason_1 Viewfinder 2024-01-31T20:34:47Z
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4.0
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  • pwnclub 2023-07-19 08:11:23.899664+00
    It was cool at first when Superliminal came out, but after Maquette and Viewfinder, I'm getting kind of tired of these first-person puzzlers that are effectively a single really cool tech demo stretched out over a few hours of really straightforward puzzles with boring/annoying/unnecessary narration
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    • pwnclub 2023-07-21 04:03:57.743017+00
      2.5 stars - one star for each of the 2 good puzzles in the game and .5 for the bit where you can exponentially increase your jump height (I found it pretty funny).
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  • thederpylink 2023-07-20 00:57:20.21609+00
    very obviously inspired by the games mentioned above but especially the cancelled Valve game F-Stop
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  • LordofSushi 2023-07-20 16:18:32.464762+00
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    • thederpylink 2023-07-21 00:28:33.907697+00
      only for the first chapter, after that the annoying woman more or less disappears from the game completely and is replaced by a British robot cat
    • marachi 2023-07-21 07:06:14.20167+00
      Twitter dot com users not judging something based on one out of context clip challenge (impossible)
    • TheDavidLol 2023-07-21 18:17:32.126423+00
      Well THAT just happened...
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  • XRader 2023-07-23 02:18:02.353859+00
    i love cait
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  • LordofSushi 2023-07-24 03:26:47.429174+00
    OK yeah actually playing it and not just watching someone go through the intro to see what it's about before sleeping I take back what I said, still don't think the script's amazing by any means (and having as many Whedonisms as it did in that first area, it's not just the one line that went viral, feels more baffling now since they get completely abandoned afterwards) but it's ok enough, even if I'm completely fine with just having it go in one ear and out the other just from being engrossed by fucking around to try to solve the puzzles lol
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    • LordofSushi 2023-07-24 03:28:03.105022+00
      will also say that the section at the end of the third area with the texture fuckery is an incredibly fun bit
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  • plastiquey 2023-07-24 17:06:06.462797+00
    poor dialogue and writing across the board, at this rate you might as well not write anything at all. some of it was so bad i thought it was ai generated mush. puzzles dont get good until two hours in and at that point i was clocked out. mediocre.
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  • Dr_Chair 2023-08-31 05:54:58.981388+00
    Erring on the side of positivity here,, yeah the writing was annoying at worst and whatever at best,, but the gameplay while never truly difficult was engaging all the way through.. With the comparisons this is getting and will continue to get,, I would actually recommend someone this over Superliminal,, which has worse puzzles,, worse writing,, and half the playtime.. Just about the only things it does better are ludonarrative harmony ((ie why the hell is Viewfinder about climate change)) and the basic concept,, and the former is something only critics care about and the latter is something that I will praise over on RateYourConcept when it opens.. I guess the moral here is let people keep making games like this,, maybe well have a surreal perspective puzzle masterpiece by 2026
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    • Dr_Chair 2023-08-31 05:58:32.269387+00
      On second thoughts this ones story might not be better than Superliminals,, theyre both incoherent in different ways and its hard to say that one ends up strictly better than the other,, but I can at least say I enjoyed Viewfinders more
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