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Obduction
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-15.
“OVERALL IMPRESSION I'm incredibly impressed by Obduction, Cyan has done it again! The game has the familiar myst-like feeling that brings me right back to my childhood when I first got to explore the Myst Island and I had no idea why I was there and what was going on, arriving…”
— a player, Steam review · 45 hrs played“Got stuck on the first puzzle. Walked around for an hour in the same area pulling random levers until hoping they would do something. Still stuck. If anything my short time with this game has reminded me why I loved Myst and Riven so much as a kid. I remember sitting with my Dad…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“I literally wanted to claw my face off for the last 60-70% of this game. The puzzles are mildly complex but exceedingly tedious. There is only so much walking back and forth to press the same buttons over and over that a person can take.”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-23.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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10 Years of Obduction
Today, August 24th, 2026, is the 10-year anniversary of Obduction ! Obduction was Cyan's first crowdfunded project . The project achieved its funding goal in November 2013. Development on the game com
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Adventure · Puzzle · Exploration · Indie · First-Person · Mystery · Surreal · VR · Walking Simulator · Atmospheric · Story Rich · Open World (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Tracked Controller Support · VR Supported · Steam Trading Cards · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese - Brazil * |
| Achievements | 15 |
| Official site | https://cyan.com/obduction |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 SP1 64 bit or newer Processor: CPU Intel i5-2500 equivalent or better Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce 660 GTX w/1GB / AMD 7700 series w/1GB equivalent or better Storage: 20 GB available space VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC Additional Notes: For VR: NVIDIA 970 or AMD 480 (equivalent or greater)