The Sojourn

mass produced puzzles. Less then the witness, but you just learn slightly new mechanics to solve some new puzzles. There is some story. If you look for games like the house of Davinci or myst or quarn. then this isn't for you.

Do not hurry. A couple of riddles every evening will be enough.

I wish I could say I was having fun playing this game, but the truth is that I'm not. It is well made, it's pretty to look at, the audio is all nice, it runs alright on my modest hardware. I can't deny that some craftsmanship went into this. But it's missing that key ingredient of a game: it's not fun. In fact it's annoying. There's a basic premise that you shouldn't punish a player too much for experimenting; other puzzle games have approached this with features whereby the player can undo actions, or move faster than their animations so they can get back to their previous position without losing too much time. The Sojourn has no pity mechanics. The player is painfully slow to move, which might be excusable during the "contemplative walking simulator" sections of the game (that is, if the game offered much to contemplate, which it doesn't), but when I'm reluctant to "just try something" because failure wastes times then something has gone wrong. I've only unlocked the second level of the tower, and if I already feel like it's wasting my time then I dread to think how aggravating I'll find the busywork later on. I can't bothered to play any further.

needs to be like a "how hard is this to beat" meter for puzzle games - was to stupid to finish without walkthrough for last 9 levels.

Light and shadow shift Puzzles bend across two worlds Truth waits in between

horrible, tedious puzzles that range from super easy to downright frustrating with extremely tight time windows. i keep telling myself i'll finish the game out of spite and maybe one day i'll get round to it. i'm recommending it because i enjoyed it enough to want to finish it, but not enough to enjoy the experience of finishing it.