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I desperately want to play “The Witness”, but my current desktop isn’t up to the task (and I mean the processor, so buying a new graphics card wouldn’t help), and I’m unlikely to get a new one any time soon.

I see that the game is now available for mobile, at 1/4 the price. The only device I have that would run it is my iPhone, and my knee-jerk reaction is that playing on such a small screen with touch controls might ruin the experience (or at least make it much more difficult), so I’m wondering if anybody has tried it and could either confirm my fears or reassure me that it is still enjoyable in that format.

It would not so much be the difficulty of using touch controls that I’d be worried about, but the game requires you to notice small details in the environment which I could not imagine doing on such a small screen. Maybe it would be OK if you are used to using a phone in that way, I know I am not.

Hmm…that’s a good point.

I guess what I really need is somebody that has played it on a phone (or better yet on a phone AND on PC or console) who can tell me how much of a problem that really is.

At the end of the day I may just end up biting the bullet and investing $10 to see what I get, as I really am likely a year or more away from getting a new computer (and am never getting a console that it will run on) and don’t really want to wait that long unless it is going to be horrible.

Well, I got it. So far so good. Movement is a little touchy (no pun intended), but otherwise I have encountered no problems (other than my fat fingers obscuring more of the puzzles than I’d like at times, though to be fair this has yet to actually make any puzzles unworkable).