Viewfinder cover

Viewfinder

Critic score3 critics
First release
Jul 18, 2023
Publisher
Thunderful
Engine
Unity
Genres
Indie, Adventure, Platform, Puzzle · Science fiction

Viewfinder is a puzzle game where you can reshape the world around you by taking photos with an instant camera.

Also known as Viewfinder.exe

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Storyline
Viewfinder is an inventive first-person puzzle game built around a remarkable ability: to take photographs and two-dimensional images and place them into the world, where they become real, three-dimensional spaces the player can walk through and manipulate. This reality-bending mechanic serves a deeper story. The game is set inside a simulation created by a small team of researchers desperately working to solve an existential crisis: in the real world, all plant life on Earth has been wiped out, leaving humanity without a viable source of oxygen. The player character enters this digital space to retrace the scientists' steps, solving intricate photographic puzzles to reach the teleporters that carry them ever deeper into the experiment. Guiding them along the way is a witty artificial intelligence in the form of a cheshire cat named Cait. As the player pieces together the clues left behind, they begin to uncover what became of the research and the hopes riding upon it.Read more

Viewfinder is an inventive first-person puzzle game built around a remarkable ability: to take photographs and two-dimensional images and place them into the world, where they become real, three-dimensional spaces the player can walk through and manipulate. This reality-bending mechanic serves a deeper story. The game is set inside a simulation created by a small team of researchers desperately working to solve an existential crisis: in the real world, all plant life on Earth has been wiped out, leaving humanity without a viable source of oxygen. The player character enters this digital space to retrace the scientists' steps, solving intricate photographic puzzles to reach the teleporters that carry them ever deeper into the experiment. Guiding them along the way is a witty artificial intelligence in the form of a cheshire cat named Cait. As the player pieces together the clues left behind, they begin to uncover what became of the research and the hopes riding upon it.

Release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Jul 18, 2023
PlayStation 4
Jul 18, 2023
PlayStation 5
Jul 18, 2023
All 5 release dates
Xbox Series X|S
Aug 12, 2025
Nintendo Switch
Dec 03, 2025
Time to beatIGDB · recorded
Main Story
4h
Main + Extras
6h
Completionist
7h
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
First person
Keywords
physics, experimental, abstract, narration, environmental puzzles

At a Glance

Critic Score
89
Main Story (IGDB)
4h
Main + Extras (IGDB)
6h
Completionist (IGDB)
7h

Overview

Steam review summary

Steam users rate this Very Positive, 12,221 reviews in all languages, recorded 16 October 2026

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