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Genres:

adventure, interactive fiction

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themes:

law enforcement, detective, mystery

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feelies included, Engine: Z-machine

graphics:

text-based

Game modes:

single-player

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Platforms

DOS

Rating

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Do you have trouble running this game on Windows? Read this guide.

DOS games can't run on Windows. You need a DOS emulator like DOSbox or D-Fend Reloaded. Follow these instructions to play DOS games on Windows 10 or later systems.

Retro gamer collector's corner:

Included in each package of The Witness were the following feelies:

Virginia Linder's suicide note addressed to her daughter Monica
A telegram from Freeman Linder pleading for protection from Stiles
A matchbook from The Brass Lantern Chinese restaurant
A February 1938 "issue" of the fictional magazine National Detective Gazette
Two pages of a real issue of the Santa Ana newspaper The Register, with two fictional articles added about Virginia and Freeman Linder

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Status: abandonware
Abandonware DOS views: 6454

Awards won by The Witness:

1983 - Best Computer Adventure, Electronic Games Arcade Awards (Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, DOS).

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