VIEWFINDER
A picturesque puzzler with far more than one weird trick to show you
All of the pictures you’re able to place in Viewfinder’s world are rendered in a distinct style, to help differentiate base reality from the one you summon on top of it
Developer
Sad Owl Studios
Publisher
Thunderful Games
Format
PC, PS5
Origin
Various
Release
2023
The
world
of
Viewfinder has been abandoned. That created a challenge, Knowles says: “How do you make something overgrown and messy, but not so messy it distracts from the puzzles?”
With
the
game’s
in-picture
worlds
dancing
between
visual
styles,
its
default
look
has
moved
from
an
initial
painterly
approach
to
something
cleaner
and
more
neutral
As
well
as
Portal and Manifold Garden, there’s a healthy dose of The Witness in Viewfinder’s design.
Completing
optional
challenges
will
unlock
filters,
from
oil
painting
to
pixel
art,
that
can
be
applied
to
your
own
photographs
–
including
their
threedimensional
counterparts