The Witness News
March2019
Soapbox I Should've Scored The Witness 10/10
Stephen reflects on his original 9/10 review
There comes a point in any reviewer's writing career where they'll wish they'd scored something differently. Personally, there are a handful of games I've tackled for Push Square over the years which deserve higher or lower scores than I gave them. I won't be going through all of them here, although let's...
Guide How to Solve All the Puzzles in The Witness
Spoiler-free guide to PS4 brain teaser
How do you solve the puzzles in The Witness? It's alright! We've been stumped many a time, too, but because we've already been through the pain, we're willing to offer a helping hand. The real beauty of this game is finding the solutions for yourself, of course, so rather than reveal every answer for you, we've...
January2018
News The Witness Physical Version Witnessed on Amazon Italy
Blown it?
Jonathan Blow's masterful puzzle game The Witness is set to hit store shelves with a physical edition, if a listing on Amazon Italy is to be believed. At the time of typing, the product page is pretty barebones, featuring placeholder box art and, well, not much else. However, backing this up to a degree are Blow's own comments about a...
December2016
Game of the Year 2016 #7 - The Witness
Blown away
If there was an annual award for 'Game Most Often Judged by Cover', The Witness would take it this year, hands down. Written off by many as "that game that's just about drawing lines", Jonathan Blow's long-delayed successor to Braid is, and has always been, about more than what's on the surface. Sure, your only real interaction with the...
September2016
News The Witness Will Look Even Prettier with PS4 Pro
Regardless of which TV you own
The Witness will be one of the many titles updated for free on the PlayStation 4 Pro – and contrary to common misconception, you'll get a better experience whichever television you own. Jonathon Blow explained on the game's official website that those with 4K televisions will be able to enjoy the game at 1440p or...
February2016
News PS4 Architect Mark Cerny Proves His Genius By Platinuming The Witness
Are you on the same intellectual plane?
Anyone who earns the Platinum in Jonathan Blow's brilliant The Witness deserves an honorary PhD. Mark Cerny, the architect behind the PlayStation 4, is the latest to 100 per cent the release, following in the footsteps of our very own Simon Fitzgerald. Better order the gowns, guys – it's graduation time. And...
News PS4 Puzzler The Witness Selling Very, Very Well
Breaking records and Blow-ing minds
We're currently seeing lines in our sleep, and it sounds like we're not the only ones. The Witness – which launched on the PlayStation 4 last week – is selling almost as fast as graph paper right now, with creator Jonathan Blow revealing that the title has already raked in $5 million of revenue after selling...
January2016
Soapbox The Witness on PS4 Is a Special Kind of Brilliant
Seeing things differently
There are puzzle games, and then there is The Witness. As those of you that have spoken to me over the past few days will know, I wasn't convinced that Jonathan Blow's long-awaited magnum opus was going to be for me. I hated predecessor Braid with a passion, for starters – but all of this chatter about mind-numbing...
News Try Not to Witness This Game-Breaking Bug in The Witness
Hopefully this will all Blow over
Jonathon Blow's beautiful new project, The Witness, is finally here, and many PlayStation players - including many Push Square staffers - are pumped to play through it. However, some users have been complaining that the game's save system is subpar, claiming that the title doesn't automatically back-up saves and...
Round Up Witness the Reviews for The Witness on PS4
That headline sounded better in our head
The Witness is here. After approximately eight years of development, a budget bigger than every cent earned by Braid, and a press campaign that included rocking up at the PlayStation 4's reveal event, Jonathan Blow has finally put the lid on his 80 hour puzzler. But is it any good? Well, we don't know,...
News The Witness Will Cost You a Pretty Penny on PS4
But it will also last, like, 80 hours
The Witness certainly falls under the bracket "indie game", but much like the upcoming No Man's Sky, creator Jonathan Blow's open world adventure is not your average pixel art side scroller. And subsequently, the Braid maker is commanding a premium fee for the puzzler: $39.99 in North America, and £29.99 in the...
September2015
News Witness The Witness for Yourself from 26th January on PS4
80 hour indie game dated
If you can hear a kind of crackling noise, that's the sound of hell freezing over. The Witness was announced for the PlayStation 4 alongside the console itself, but almost three years later, it's finally ready for release. Braid developer Jonathan Blow has taken to the PlayStation Blog to confirm that the Myst-ical...
June2015
News PS4 Puzzler The Witness Will Apparently Take You 70 Hours to Fully Complete
Strap yourself in
Jonathon Blow reckons that his gorgeous new PlayStation 4 puzzler The Witness is going to take you a healthy chunk of time to fully complete. Indeed, speaking on Twitter, Blow said that a play-tester took approximately eight days to beat the game. He then did some complicated maths and determined that this means that the title will...
May2014
News The Witness May Just be the Prettiest Incoming PlayStation 4 Title
And it runs at 60fps in 1080p
Jonathan Blow has been working on PlayStation 4 title The Witness for five years now, and judging by this new batch of screenshots, it's been well worth the effort. The enticing images show off some varied locations in the stupidly pretty puzzler, and it's not hard to completely lose yourself in their beguiling char...
February2014
News Observe Ten Minutes of Pretty PS4 Puzzler The Witness
Trees and treats
As the next project from indie icon Jonathan Blow, Sony opted to spotlight The Witness during its PlayStation 4 unveiling around about a year ago. However, while the Myst-esque exploration title’s been in development for some time now, we still haven’t really been given an especially in-depth look at the game. Fortunately, a ten...
December2013
News Could We Have Witnessed the First Virtual Reality PS4 Game Already?
Seeing double
Strong speculation suggests that Sony wants to strap you into a new dimension of PlayStation 4 gameplay as early as next year – and Jonathan Blow’s upcoming indie title The Witness could be one of the first titles to take advantage of the unannounced virtual reality headset. Posting on the
May2013
News Jonathan Blow Evangelises the Indie Difference in New The Witness Video
Go your own way
Outside of Minecraft’s Markus ‘Notch’ Perrson, indie doesn’t get much more, er, mainstream than Braid creator Jonathan Blow. As such, it’s a testament to Sony’s overarching strategy at the present that the platform holder has the Thekla Inc president promoting The Witness on its impending next generation system. In this...
March2013
News Jonathan Blow 'Happy' to Be Working with Sony on The Witness
Developer excited by his relationship with the platform holder
Braid may have been a watershed release for Xbox Live Arcade, but creator Jonathan Blow reckons that he’s “happy” to be working with Sony on his next project The Witness. The title was announced as a timed exclusive for the PlayStation 4 during the platform holder’s press...
February2013
News Braid Developer Confirms The Witness for PS4
Not so exclusive
During the PlayStation 2013 presentation, Jonathan Blow, the developer of the indie sensation Braid, confirmed his new project would be heading to the PlayStation 4. The Witness is an open-world puzzle game, set on a series of dreamily colourful islands. Blow was keen to highlight the importance of the idea behind each individual...
