You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
| App ID | 210970 |
|---|---|
| App type | Game |
| Developer | Thekla, Inc. |
| Publisher | Thekla, Inc. |
| Homepage | http://the-witness.net/ |
| Release date | 2016-01-26 17:15 UTC |
| Original release | 2016-01-26 08:00 UTC |
| Release state | released |
| Controller support | partial |
| Store page | store.steampowered.com/app/210970 |
| Last store refresh | 1 hour ago |
| # | Executable | Arguments | OS | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | witness_d3d11.exe | windows | The Witness | |
| 1 | The Witness.app | macos |
| Playing now | 163 (23 minutes ago) |
|---|---|
| 24-hour peak | 191 |
| All-time peak (tracked) | 191 2026-09-11 21:10 UTC |
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| Date | Price | Regular | Discount |
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| 2026-09-11 21:01 UTC | $39.99 | $39.99 |
| DLC | AppID | Release | Price |
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| No DLC known for this app. | |||
| Branch | Build ID | Description | Updated | Password |
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| public | 11370412 | 2023-06-01 19:08 UTC | ||
| future | 11266061 | 2023-05-18 20:21 UTC | ||
| macos_old | 3801772 | Version before the 2023 changes | 2023-05-19 05:18 UTC |
| Depot | Name | OS | Size | Download | Public manifest | Notes |
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| 210971 | windows | 3.87 GB | 3.36 GB | 8672314139535162042 | branches: future, macos_old | |
| 210972 | macos | 3.86 GB | 3.34 GB | 640006414617329475 | branches: future, macos_old | |
| 228985 | windows | from app 228980 · shared install |
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| 11370412 | public | 2023-06-01 19:08 UTC | 2 hours ago |
| 3801772 | macos_old | 2023-05-19 05:18 UTC | 2 hours ago |
| 11266061 | future | 2023-05-18 20:21 UTC | 2 hours ago |
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The Witness was released in 2016, ten years ago... how time flies!We've been working hard that whole time, and can happily announce that the successor game is almost done, and there's a free demo on Steam only during NextFest. It's called Order of the Sinking Star and you can get the demo here (but don't tarry too long as it goes away on Monday morning!):
Earlier this year we released Braid, Anniversary Edition, a remastered version of Braid with a bunch of new levels and tons of developer commentary. Now Braid Anniversary is on sale and The Witness is in a bundle with it. Both games have a base discount of 75%, but if you already own The Witness, Braid Anniversary will be cheaper, and vice versa, and of course you get the extra discount if you get both. Braid, Anniversary Edition The Witness Thanks for reading this! As we finally enter the downhill slope of design on the (not yet named) giant new puzzle game, it's nice to be able to go back to
Fixed a crash on some modern macOS systems that was was caused by an outdated Steam SDK.
Fixed crash on macOS versions before 10.15 that got introduced in the recent update.
Fixed crash on macOS versions before 11.0 that got introduced in yesterday’s update.
Updated the macOS version to run on macOS 13+ Added the required signatures to prevent Gatekeeper pop-ups on macOS 10.14+ Improved trackpad detection code on macOS. Fixed that left-clicks on trackpads were sometimes incorrectly interpreted as right-clicks on macOS. Fixed that launching The Witness on newer macOS versions showed a popup about monitoring input from other applications.
Whether you feel that The Witness is slightly or enormously pretentious, three things are undeniable: It contains a lot of puzzles, it’s lovely to look at, and it’s the Epic Games Store’s new fortnightly giveaway. Developed by Jonathan Blow’s (Braid) studio Thekla, it’s part Myst, part jumbo puzzle book. In the game, your sole method of interaction with its lovely landscapes is to draw lines, mostly on strange high-tech signs, featuring unwritten rules that must be wordlessly intuited. You can grab the game here, and see a trailer and some thoughts below. (more&h
I love The Witness. It s a great game. But the more I play it, the more I m sure that Jonathan Blow was taking the mick out of everyone with it. In an interview with The Guardian, he said he wanted to make video games for people who read Gravity’s Rainbow. Widely considered to be Thomas Pynchon s magnum opus, Gravity s Rainbow made TIME magazine s list of All-Time 100 Greatest Novels. Pynchon s book is a great big amalgamation of beautifully messy imagery that leaves you absolutely clueless as to what actually happened by the time you put it down. Hm… Video essayist Joseph Anderso
Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid and The Witness, has shown more of his new puzzle game. It's a game inspired by (and even, it seems, codenamed) Sokoban, the old Japanese game about pushing boxes in specific orders to cover all the marks on the floor. Blow showed footage during his talk at Spanish conference Gamelab, which I popped along to a few weeks ago. It's taken a little while for the videos to appear online. In the footage, the viewer looks down into a leafy kind of compartmentalised level to see three characters and six doorless rooms. There's one big crystal which needs moving but when
Today's Deal: Save 70% on The Witness!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Sunday at 10AM Pacific Time
This is the version that has been on 'future' for a while, with a few changes. 'default' and 'future' are now the same build of the game. Full list of changes versus the current public version: Added alternative "Click-to-Move" control scheme: Pause Menu -> Controls -> Mouse Control Mimics the touch controls from the iOS version with the mouse Left click to walk Left double-click to run Left click and drag to look around Right click to toggle in/out of focus mode Hold middle mouse or alt to strafe Remappable keys: Pause Menu -> Controls -> Customize Keys Remappable gamepad: Pause Menu -> Contr
This is the version that has been on 'future' for a while, with a few changes. 'default' and 'future' are now the same build of the game. Full list of changes versus the current public version: Added alternative "Click-to-Move" control scheme: Pause Menu -> Controls -> Mouse Control Mimics the touch controls from the iOS version with the mouse Left click to walk Left double-click to run Left click and drag to look around Right click to toggle in/out of focus mode Hold middle mouse or alt to strafe Remappable keys: Pause Menu -> Controls -> Customize Keys Remappable gamepad: Pause Menu -> Contr
Save up to 60% on great titles like Firewatch, Tacoma, Obduction, Samorost 3, Quern, and The Witness as part of the Explorer's Bundle during this week's Midweek Madness*! *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time
The Witness is now available on Steam for the Mac. We sneakily put it up a week ago, but here's the official announcement. To celebrate the Mac release, the game is on sale for 50% off this week (for both Windows and Mac)!
The Witness is now available on Steam for the Mac. We sneakily put it up a week ago, but here's the official announcement. To celebrate the Mac release, the game is on sale for 50% off this week (for both Windows and Mac)!
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