2016 · Puzzle · Exploration · Open World
How long isThe Witness?
by Thekla, Inc.
16 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 6 hours and 30 hours
The Witness among the 773 puzzle games here
The whole tier list#485
of 773
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 34%
- got past 2 hours
- −5 on the kind's 39%
- 11%
- past 20 hours
- +8 on the kind's 3%
- 56%
- launched it
- about the kind's 57%
- 208
- libraries own it
- 1 in 12 of the 2,519 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Long for a puzzle game: 16 hours for the typical player, longer than 1,000 of 1,033 puzzle games here.
56% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
73% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
80% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
86% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
94% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
96% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
97% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
Does The Witness hold up?
Grows on people
73% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 97% at 100–200 hours played.
Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of The Witness tell you?
In the first two hours56%recommend it
After that88%recommend it
16 in 100 said no: 11 after the window had closed, 5 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 16 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 6 hours and 30 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 21,500 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It grows on people: 73% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 97% at 100–200 hours.
10% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 56% of those recommend it. After the window, 88% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 71% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 5.5 hours in.
When would you get there?
16days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 16 hours on Monday, November 30.
Half of its reviewers had played between 6 and 30 hours: Nov 20 to Dec 14 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is The Witness worth it?
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One hour, at list price
The Witness
- Steam list price, US
- $39.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 16 h
- puzzle game rate
- $2.28/h
- 16 h at that rate
- $37
About the going rate
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is The Witness worth it? Mostly.
Fair price
About what a typical puzzle game charges: $2.50 an hour
Liked
88% recommend it after the refund windowmost puzzle games: 92%
Usually played
56% of owners here have played itmost puzzle games: 63%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $39.99, the typical player's 16 hours come to $2.50 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 88% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of The Witness costs about what the typical one of 1033 puzzle games here charges $2.28.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (puzzle games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Is The Witness better now than at launch?
January 2016
86%
≈ 1,290 reviews
Now
81%
≈ 2,140 reviews
How this is counted
Its Steam reviews began in January 2016. Of those posted in the first 30 days, 86% recommend it; of those posted in the last 12 months, 81% do.
One token is 2% of the reviews first posted in its first 30 days, and in the last 12 months. Each counts with the verdict it carries today, so a review its author has since changed shows the new one. The biggest comebacks and falls.
Where can I play The Witness today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS4, Xbox One and iPhone.
- todayPS42016
- todayXbox One2016
- todayPC2017
- todayiPhone2017
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines The Witness came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like The Witness?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Witness, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Witness would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@ravage holds this page
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with The Witness?
1 in 48
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
Games like The Witness
The Talos Principle
The Witness, but not open world, and even better loved
Loved · 95%Games like The Talos Principle
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from The Witness: a kind of game it is that The Witness is not, a feature its tags carry that The Witness's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.