Our Journey: The Silent Voice

The last chapter is a DISASTER to an otherwise kind of a good game

We’re having fun!

This is a colorful and (largely) fun co-op puzzle game of leading your friend (or being led) through various puzzles to get to the end together using only cryptic cards as clues. A bit "Mysterium" meets "Bokura". One note that I'd HIGHLY suggest to prevent frustration: at the final chapter where the roles are forcibly swapped between body/spirit: USE the option to swap back. Otherwise, the person who was to that point doing all the following and had no idea about what the various "rumors" or guiding mechanics were; will be completely baffled and frustrated when the game throws ALL of those at them at once with no explanation. So, for the sake of everyone's sanity: Just swap roles after the forced change so that the person who was the guide from the start is still the guide and happiness will be had by all! :D Very fun game (especially with that small adjustment for the ending!)

Our Journey: The Silent Voice is an abstract and accessible cozy treat for 2-players to co-op. The best way to explain it is if one person controlled the body while another controlled the mind (or soul in this case), with no words to communicate. You have a set of symbols, or colors to somehow communicate the directions you need to go with each other. Your goal is to solve puzzles to reunite with each other. [b]Upside[/b] -Cozy colors, relaxing music and replay value where you take each others' roles make the game very viable. Not to mention, no two paths are the same. -Complex rogue-lite growth -Puzzles for the Spirit player to solve and while waiting, actionable things for the body player to pursue (collect coins, find chests) [b]Downside[/b] -Requires you and your partner to be in two different places, with two different copies of the game -My co-op partner had the game crash completely several times, and had to reload -Even though there is a twitch mode, and you can turn it on, when you create a lobby the lobby code appears completely on screen. There should be a warning or the code should be blanked out so we can copy and paste it without having randos joining …

Simple puzzle game for 2. Occasionally there's a puzzle you get stuck on overthinking it, or the hints might not be clear. Overall it's a pleasant experience.

This game is incredibly fun, however it crashes so frequently that its almost unplayable. I received this game from my firend who streams so that we could play it together on the stream, we played for a bout 2 hours but called it after I had crashed about two dozen times.