10 INCREDIBLE Video Games You Can Finish In Under 5 Hours
3. Journey
Sometimes it’s not about the destination - it’s about the journey.
Beautifully abstract and award-winning, Thatgamecompany’s Journey is an online adventure with little more direction than: See that pretty mountain? Let’s go there.
Controlling a robed figure with the power of flight who is wandering the desert, Journey features collectables that you can use to lengthen your character’s scarf, and therefore increase the strength of your flight. The movement is beautiful, and the environments are wonderful to explore, and so you’ll want to collect the longest scarf you can, so that you can fly around in pure floaty bliss a little longer.
It’s so simple, and yet, so brilliant.
Introduce a little peril around the midway point that threatens to rip your scarf, and with it, your ability to fly, and you’ve got enough heartbreak to have you sitting petrified behind a rock until danger passes.
Journey’s ultimate charm is that, much like real life, you don’t have to make that journey alone. Another player will join you and travel alongside you, and you are able to recharge each others scarves by calling out to each other in song. Side by side, you’ll reach that mountain together. It’s absolutely beautiful.
Cried at this one too.