Lucas Pope
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If you've just come here to play one of the cooler story-mystery games in recent history, head to game developer Lucas Pope's website as soon as you possibly can to download the first public demo of his new game, Return of the Obra Dinn, for free on Windows and OS X.
We've been eagerly awaiting a chance to try the game again after enjoying its 15-minute demo at last month's Game Developers Conference. Pope's game-making reputation precedes him, thanks to his one-two punch of the touchscreen masterwork Helsing's Fire and Ars' choice for 2013 game of the year Papers, Please. Still, we had no idea what to expect—especially from a new game so graphically rudimentary, it makes the lo-fi Papers, Please look like a piece of classic art in comparison.
"A lot of the work in making this game has been so that when a player sits down, they don't think immediately, 'why is this game in one-bit?'" Pope said to Ars during a GDC interview. "'I can't fucking see anything. Just give me more colors so I can tell what's going on. I don't care about the stupid art style.'"
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