The Witness — Jonathan Blow’s followup to Braid — finally gets a release date

One of the first games announced for the PlayStation 4 should hit the system next year.

The Witness, an exploration puzzler, is coming out January 26 for PlayStation 4 and PC. It’s a beautiful-looking first-person adventure that has you solving different kinds of connect-the-dot puzzles, but it probably goes a lot deeper than that. In a post on the PlayStation blog — Sony is helping to promote it — developer Jonathan Blow emphasized that the final form of The Witness ended up far larger than his team initially expected.