I - Loose Cargo - 0:11 II - A Bitter Cold - 2:15 III - Murder - 6:55 IV - The Calling - 11:22 V - Unholy Captives - 19:33 VI - Soldiers of the Sea - 25:04 VII - The Doom - 34:26 VIII - Bargain - 45:02 IX - Escape - 50:52 X - The End - 59:10

Can we safely agree that Ed Nichols was the reason for 80% of the deaths lol

59:10 "Captain! Open the door lest we break it down and take more than those shells." "The shells are gone, because they are the reason the spiders and the kraken attacked. So they're back in the ocean now." "Oh, okay, I misunderstood the situation. We are family, and I trust you. Good work Captain, now let's safely return home." *THE END*

I don't think I really parsed how tragic the story actually is when I was playing the game. Like then I was all focused on investigating the scenes of every death for as many details as possible, but now I'm sitting here getting emotional about all the unnecessary death and cruel murders. Thanks a lot, Nichols.

I just love how Brennan had more memories than the captain itself.

Paul's death may be one of the saddest ones. He seems like an okay guy and he was maybe a few minutes from surviving the ordeal.

Nothing is sadder than the story of the 3 middle shipmen

For some reason the first death in Bitter Cold really got me. The concern in the friends voice is so touching and sad. This game really makes you feel for the crew members.

I know Lucas Pope strove to write interesting and creative ways to kill the crew of the Obra Dinn, but on a recent re-play I found myself saying "poor guy!" over and over. Its really impressive how he humanizes so many characters through subtle gameplay. Aside from Nichols and his greed I empathized with just about everyone. They've all got good and bad, and are so human.

"Return of the Obra Dinn," also known as "Edward Nichols Ruins Everything." Also 56:37 is legendary among my friends just because it's so fast. You don't fuck with Henry Brennan.

These Unknown Souls were Eaten by Captain Robert Witterel

One of the best reasons for the artstyle of this game that no one seems to talk about, is that there are some things I’d really rather not see in any higher detail or colour.

the captain yelling at the mermaids is such a great moment, thank you for putting this video together

Hopefully this sparks a new wave of murder mysterys

It's so ironic that the artist died in like the least sightly way possible

Idk why, but my favorite character was Charles Miner, the assistant bosun. I loved his look and his where's waldo shirt and that he was always nearby helping. I was pretty sad when I worked out his fate

That mermaid killed at least 3 people before it even got to the lazarette; you would think they would've dumped it by then lmao

Third Mate Martin Perrott was this story’s biggest hero :( he was such a kind soul even in all the circumstances

I don't blame anyone for their actions except for Nichols and his dogs. Others had understandable reasons for their actions after living through the hell Nichols brought. But i have special love for Alfred Klestil, Martin Perrott, Maba, Charles Miner, all midshipmans, It-Beng Sia and Abraham Akbar

the gunner made one hell of a dodge in unholy captives

Soldiers of the Sea really got me. Because this crew isn’t soldiers, they’re EIC cargo sailors. Working men fighting and dying horribly. And those crab things dude, I cant imagine how horrifying it must have been to see those giant murderous crustaceans fill up an entire room and kill 7 of your brothers at sea.

RIP to those sweet Middleshipmen. Truely the blorbos of the Obra Dinn.

I wanna see them make another game like this, this game was definitely one of their best

Thanks for this awesome summary! I got all deaths eventually but had a hard time to place the secret scenes in there. Also I still feel very sorry for the 3rd Mate Martin Perrot. He was caring about the people on the ship, tried to help out and fight where he could and at the end basically saved the ship by releasing that mermaid with the shell. (In theory at least, without the mutiny and everything a lot of people could have reached the nearest port alive.)

oh my god rewatching the monkey's death and realizing that it's not just some random monkey makes me 110% sad It was so chill in all the other scenes too...

Chapter VI: -Soldiers of the Sea- Crab Rave

19:36 I can’t stop laughing at the way he yells “HEAVE TOGETHER!”

Very well done. I bought this game just out of curiosity when it was on sale a while back, and because it's main location is a ship. I could have not made a better purchase, it made me fall in love with videogames all over again, I was beginning to get burned out and didn't play them that much. This game honestly taught me the potential/ the beauty of videogames, as a medium to experience a world through someone you control at your own pace while also being an artistic vision of someone else's.

7:21 You can genuinely hear how devious Edward Nichols sounds here

The First Mate bringing a hatchet to a gun fight

"Let's book passage to the Cape of Good Hope on the Obra Dinn, they said. It'll be fun, they said. it's a bargain, they said."

25:30 Love this scene Seeing the topmen high up the ship is fascinating in a way.

"wheres the rest of his leg?"

Wow, that was a short hour. Thank you for this edit. This game is truly a masterpiece and a work of genius.

This was really well put together, well done.

Anyone else notice the heartbeats that play at the end of some of the scenes? I'm specifically talking about Perrott and the bosun.

RIP Timothy Butement, the most overlooked hero of the ship.

Taking a moment just to say I enjoy your camerawork in these vignettes

If only Edward hadn't tried that mutiny If that didn't happen the mermaids probably wouldn't have gone after the shells based on the fact that nothing had attacked until the shells were in much smaller, and open boats where the shells and people could be easy targets But as soon as the mermaids were brought on board then I believe that's the reason the terrible beasts attacked. Not to get the shells but to rescue the mermaids So basically I'm saying is I think the crew would've been fine if the shells were left on the obra dinn since the monsters didn't seem to want to go up against a huge ship like the obra dinn until the mermaids were kidnapped

53:26 and here's Henry booking it to the scene with his trusty club lol. Not yet, bud. Not yet lol

Thank you so much for this!

Seeing it in order like this, i can spot one missing detail during 55:04, when the kid is yellin Mutiny, you SHOULD be able to hear the gunshot from the womens rifle upstairs killing the other man from the previous scene

27:31 Lerooooy Jenkiiiiins 33:22 *being tortured* "Is that the best you got?" My 'muricans :')

Cannot thank Talmadge Atkins enough for compiling all these. Many thanks :D

Rest in peace Nunzio Pasqua. You’ve never done anything wrong.

Thanks bro keep it up

Regarding Chapter IX, I wonder why Thomas Lanke didn't abandon the ship with Evans, Jackson, Bird, and James. Besides Bird (who is a passenger), Thomas and Davey must be the youngest crew on board still alive at that point of the plot. Why didn't he leave? What duty tied him to the Obra Dinn? Yes, he's an official on training, but even the senior officials were running like headless chickens in front of the calamity that decimated the ship. He fought valiantly during the last couple of days and there was nothing else to do except endangering his life once more if he stayed. That makes me think that the escape in chapter IX was Moss' -secret- plan (I would add Perrot into this due to the events in chapter VIII) and while the captain didn't know about the escape beforehand, he was fine with it. Things went so awry that the escape was the least of his concerns, considering that his wife died, the crew was slaughtered in a short spam of time, and the 2nd mate orchestrated a mutiny under his nose. As the escape was Moss and Perrot's plan, they had to choose who could leave with them and Thomas unfortunately wasn't in the right place when such decision was taken or wasn't even considered. All deaths were particularly meaningless in chapter IX, but the ones that happened below deck were partucularly senseless, especially Thomas'. I also wonder if the 4th mate, John Davies, knew that his steward was among the escapees. I can only speculate, but I think Davies and Davey were separated after the events of the Doom due to the chaos that unfolded on the main deck, and Davey ultimately stuck with Moss and Perrot. Davies never left his steward alone, so he had to have a good reason for doing it so. I don't think Davies knew about the escape and Davey decided to leave by his own volition. I don't believe Davies would be furious about Davey's decision; after all, Davies actively protected Davey from danger and if this is considered as Davies' personal "goal", his steward survived the whole ordeal unscathed.

Martin Perrott is a god damn hero

I think about this game and soundtrack all of the time. Hit me like a ton of bricks. Nothing else like it in the medium.

I always thought the escape happened before the doom, so it made sense that some of the boats were going out during the kraken attack. Realizing that the escape and end happen after the bargain makes those last deaths so much more tragic and useless. The mermaid was bringing the ship back safe like was the last message from the third mate so all they had to do was wait.

I didn't realize the events from The Doom up to The End were as close as they where. Just reinforcing the idea of the captain & crew being at their wits end.

36:23 Edward! Man! What did you eat?

Just played through the game a second time to get all achievements and with the knowledge from the first walkthrough there is so much more to look at. this game is so fantastic, even a second time dragging me into the scenery. the music, the lowlevel graphics which give this game some kind of rough look which is perfect for the cruelty expressed. You just have to feel discomfortable. The small details like the waving sails and ropes inside the present; the captain leaning desperated over the rail in the escape chapter when he sees another good man shot through the chest; all those events happening at the same time with people dealing with stuff on another deck than others etc etc. Brilliant. Second walkthrough also revealed its linearity, though. But imo the best and most uncomfortable detail I only understood now playing it a second time... the shiny sun in the distance isn't the sun... it's the effing shell... here... lying around in the water... now THAT gave me some shivers... Another question though: what exactly is it in the chest... it is called quicksilver... but would it jump out into the 1st mate (that swedish dude) chest or the famosan's face upon opening? Or is he mistaken calling it quicksilver and it is some mysterious mystical power... also I dont quite understand why it can stun the mermaids, not killing them... a bit odd

Thank goodness this isn't based of a true story because I would never go to sea again

29:48 That scream still hits hard, especially when you think back to the characters first scene.

Thank you

A fantastic game about coming to a place after all the interesting stuff has already happened and filling out the paper work.

Makes you wonder... Will Hoscutt, Brennan, and Walker plan a mutiny against Cap. Witterel if Evans, Bird, Jackson, James, and Moss didn't take the last boat in The Escape. Granted, Moss was KIA by Volkov, but I can't also blame Volkov, he's just trying to defend the ship. But will Hoscutt and co. go against the captain if they know the last boat is still there?

I looked for this since my first playthrough!

This is, more or less, the entire game, without figuring out who's who. It's like a movie when presented this way.

Truly awesome game. It is on the same place for me as "The Witness" or "Talo's principal"

This is a truly excellent game.

6:43 I don't get why the Indians are moving their deceased fellow Renfred Rajub across the stairs. He'd just passed away in the surgeon's room, and the surgeon just requested that they took him to the carpenter's shop to be wrapped (5:14). These places are both in the orlop deck, so they should definitely not use the stairs. P.S.: Whoa, it must have taken quite an effort to pull all these scenes together. Great work, really!

35:48 2020 in a nutshell

32:03 absolutely my top #1 most memorable vignette

Fun Fact: Jeffrey Pillars, the voice actor of Henry Evans also appeared in the Mario Movie from 1993

Im still kinda confused for the people who just dropped dead after getting hit over the head once with a club. Must have been quite the swing!

I'm pretty sure most of us can agree that the guy dying, Winston Smith, at 33:18 was a pretty badass way to go out.

I learnt that cap killed himself and was the last one alive

One thing that has bothered me is that for Brennan’s death his flashback happens immediately when he throat is slit, but he is seen holding his throat and is heard still bleeding out in Lewis’ death, meaning he didn’t die immediately when his throat was cut, but characters like Bun Lan Lim were mortally wounded and then their death scene occurs when they finally bleed out. It’s a very very minor thing, and I understand why it was done, but I can’t help but notice it now

The score of this game is permanently dissonant with the mood of constant deaths.

11:50 "they say strange things... about monsters!" *LEGO Star Wars generic death sound*

This is what I was hoping would happen when you beat the game, that you could get an option to easily view chapters in order

I like how significant they made the execution of the Asian guy. Even though he was wrongfully accused.

49:10 Do I understand correctly that Martin also planned to leave on the last boat to Africa?

Man this is actually terrible, imagine being on a cursed ship and doomed to die, unlucky. Sure they pissed off Poseidon by capturing those mermaids or something.

What specific English accent does Henry Evans (the surgeon) have? I'm American and I feel like his accent is barely detectable.

seems like a lot of people bought the game a few weeks ago,like myself.

7:15 - 7:26 Am I the only one hearing Wheatley from Portal 2?

Timestamps for individual deaths (Spoilers!) *I* 0:12 Samuel Peters 1:09 unidentified Stowaway *II* 2:15 Soloman Syed 3:38 Renfred Rajub 5:15 Cow *III* 6:55 Nunzio Pasqua 8:29 Hok-Seng Lau 10:07 Timothy Butement *IV* 11:22 Li Hong 12:54 Patrick O´Hagan 14:20 Samuel Galligan 15:32 Bun-Lan Lim 16:56 It-Beng Sia 18:10 Edward Nichols *V* 19:33 Chioh Tan & Hamadou Diom 20:56 Thomas Sefton 22:22 William Wasin 23:24 John Naples *VI* 25:04 Huang Li 26:10 Nicholas Botterill 27:19 Marcus Gibbs 28:34 James Wallace & Jie Zhang 29:48 Charles Hershtik 30:53 Emil O´Farrell 32:03 Zungi Sathi 33:18 Winston Smith *VII* 34:26 Lars Linde 35:48 Edward Spratt 37:15 Abraham Akbar 38:29 Christian Wolff & George Shirley 39:43 Roderick Andersen 40:51 Peter Milroy 42:24 Maba 43:33 Abigail Hoscut Witterel *VIII* 45:02 Filip Dahl 46:22 Mermaid 47:10 Mermaid 48:02 Martin Perrott 49:52 Pet Monkey *IX* 50:52 Alfred Klestil 52:33 Paul Moss 53:50 Leonid Volkov 55:02 Olus Wiater 56:36 John Davies 57:45 Thomas Lanke *X* 59:10 William Hoscut 1:00:33 Henry Brennan 1:01:47 Lewis Walker 1:03:01 Robert Witterel

One though I had is what wouldve happened if Nichols killed the murmaids as he brought them aboard the rowboats.

Wait how did John Davies, the guy’s whose leg got cut off/ the “20 years my Stewart” memories die? It’s still a bit unclear

9:06 I love how shit of a shot everyone is, except for one certain fan favorite.

The guy impaled at 13:20 took me forever to figure out.

0:12 Cargo guy 3:36 conversación del médico y del 2do oficial mientras el otro muere. 23:57 all's fine John. Where's the rest of his leg? 27:19 Hey, catch? (si se puede quitar el audio de fondo) 32:19 Ahhh- Hmh- se murió. 37:22 Uoh- No! Aahhh AahAAaA-Aaa 57:44 Tell Pete's mother I I-I've tried my best.

19:46 32:06 32:17 43:35

Who did you always feel most sorry for? For me it was Maba, Charles Hershtik, and Phillip Dahl. They sounded like they were in most pain.

Scenes and 30:54 and 32:03 are out of order. In the latter scene we see the beasts are alive but in the former scene they are dead.

36:00 When I first played the game I thought he was taking an absolute massive shit but I was thoroughly suprised

I know that this is an old video, and that the hype of the game has been going on for years. But I also wanted to contribute my opinion about this story that has fascinated me so much this past week. For me, the biggest culprit in all this tragedy is Captain Robert. Not that I exclude Edward's guilt, but as I understand it, the only difference between these two is that Edward was active in the disaster, while Robert was initially passive and later became active as well. Taking out the first 3 deaths, which were but 1 fatality (the rope breaking) and 2 deaths from respiratory disease (which at the time had very few treatments - much of today's antibiotics are post-WWI), Robert could have prevented all of this. After all, Robert was the captain. Being a captain is not just about putting on a fancy hat, wearing a fancy outfit, and bossing everyone around with an aura of superiority. The captain's primary function is to ensure that the ship arrives at its objective intact with everyone in the crew alive, or at least with as many people alive as possible. Ultimately all deaths that occur on a ship are the captain's fault until proven otherwise. The first point at which the captain could have prevented this tragedy would have been during the execution of Hok-Seng. He had a murder occurred on his ship, by an alleged murderer who doesn't speak his language, and who magically decides to confess this "because he does" only to be met with a summary sentence of execution should have aroused suspicion, to say the least. This false confession was probably planted by Li Hong at Edward's behest, since Li Hong was together with Edward during the first riot, intentionally mistranslating what Hok-Seng was saying. There were three other Chinese on the ship, a separate translation of each would quickly reveal Edward's plan. Anyway, first missed opportunity. The second point comes after Edward's death, with the crew retrieving the mermaids and the chest. From this point on, Robert actively contributes to the disaster. Let's remember the scene, practically everyone who was in the first mutiny was dead or missing, with some bodies even multilayered, and the only one who could speak was Edward who was deservedly shot by Chioh Tan. In addition, 3 strange creatures were together on the boat apparently not moving. With all this, what does Robert do? He puts the creatures inside, and, not satisfied, even after a few minutes, not only is it revealed that the creatures were alive, but they also make dangerous mistakes, killing two crew members almost instantly. What does Robert do after this?Did he kill them and throw them into the sea? No, he had these creatures put inside the ship, the same mermaid that killed two people five minutes ago now killed the cook, even though it was tied up, and consequently also William during the fall from the ladder. At this point, Robert was worse than Edward, because Edward at least didn't know what he was really getting involved in, while Robert had more than enough information to come to the conclusion that the risk was not worth it. He even ignored Fillip, his own steward (and probably the only sane one at that moment) about the dangers the ship was involved in, calling him crazy and locking him up with the mermaids. Even though the game doesn't allow the player to read minds, I'm sure Robert was thinking something like this: "Thanks Edward for bringing me merchandise that is worth much more than this entire ship. Now not only will I be so rich that I can retire, but I will be famous all over the world for having captured a mermaid.Rest in hell, you imbecile". At least Edward was honest in his dishonesty, and exercised it through his actions. And with that, the rest is history (or tragedy would be more fitting) of what we have seen, with almost all the crew being killed by the sea soldiers or the Kraken. And Robert knew that it was all his fault, so much so that he killed the mermaids by demanding that they send the Kraken away; he let Emily, Henry, Jane and Davey take the last boat, telling Leonid to "let them go," even though this was considered mutiny, because he knew that the trust in him to run the ship had been broken. Looking at the big picture, I really have to agree with Olus (even though I disagree with the motive and methods): "Enough! Captain cannot be trusted.", because the captain traded the safety of the voyage for possible financial gain, and now, besides not having the money, practically everyone is dead, including his beloved, or abandoning ship. That is why at the end, he apologizes to Abigail for all that has occurred, with his voice now weak and melancholy, far from the strong voice of the beginning of the game, now with the blood of his own crew on his hands, with the blood of his friend on the deck floor with the gun he himself fired. Ultimately, Return of the Obra Dinn is a record of what an idiot captain who abandons his duties for sheer greed.

35:48 🚽 > Me, after eating Taco Bell!! 🤣🤣

Agora tudo faz sentido , Obrigado por colocar em orden Cronologica o/

I don't forget Nichols

How did you walk slow like that?

Just getting off my chest somewhere how Nunzio Pasqua's fate at 07:23 is currently the only thing that's royally annoyed me about an otherwise amazing game, that forced me to look online to solve. The audio effect sounds fully like he's punched him in the body, not that there's a knife involved

23:23 is my favourite scene and I dont even know why

Honestly, the Artist, Edward Spratt, dying while taking a shit will never not be funny to me

28:33 26:08

50:54 50:55

Thanks for stitching these together so seamlessly. I couldn’t piece together the game or make sense of any of it because the order threw me off. It’s more enjoyable chronologically, but I still needed to consult Wikipedia to figure out what happened. I like the retro style of the graphics, I just didn’t enjoy the gameplay at all.