It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play, we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.
2016’s The Witness is kind of like an open-world puzzle game. In it, you’re essentially asked to constantly solve the same 2D maze-style puzzle over and over, but depending on where you find it in the game’s open world, there are different rules for solving it. The most interesting of these puzzles are the ones that require you to step away from the puzzle and look at the world around you in order to solve it.
In one area, you learn that to solve the puzzle, you have to look at it through the branches of a tree, which shows...