The Witness is a game where you explore a mysterious island and solve puzzles. Thematically, it’s a game about epiphany, that leap your mind makes when you instantly go from confusion to understanding.

The Witness takes place in an open world, so that you can go wherever you want.

For a puzzle game, this is nice, because it means the developers can include real puzzles that challenge and surprise you. In a linear game, if you get stuck on a puzzle, you are usually just stuck unless you look up the answer; this is why many linear games shy away from puzzles with non-obvious solutions. In The Witness, we can make puzzles as difficult or as subtle as we want, because if you are stuck in an area, you can simply go somewhere else.

Some puzzles in The Witness are hard, but some are easy. However, even the easy puzzles are interesting, because every puzzle has a little bit of communication wrapped inside it. So when you work through a bunch of puzzles in the game, you have also experienced a flow of ideas, presented to you at a high density.

With The Witness' imminent release, an updated ESRB product listing revealed the possibility of the game coming to Xbox One, and while developer Jonathan Blow does not dispute the ESRB mention of an Xbox One edition (as well as other platforms according to the official website), fans should not expect it anytime soon.

"We only put XB1 on there because it doesn't cost anything, and if we were to want to do an XB1 version later, we don't have to go through ratings again. But it is totally provisional, we have no plans for an XB1 version right now," commented Blow.

The Witness is a timed console exclusive, and is currently only scheduled for PS4 and PC.