Towards a perilous journey
Sparkly Games · 2018 · Action, Indie, Adventure, VR
PC
Mixed64% · 11
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About Towards a perilous journey
In charge of a squad of two ships, face the many enemies scattered throughout your adventure.
This adventure, let's talk about it. Sometimes by day, sometimes by night, you will progress through colorful environments, tinged with a predominantly electro musical atmosphere. The adventure is composed of 24 different chronicles, each conceived around a dedicated music. Accuracy, dodge and coordination will be the main ingredients of this perilous journey.
This game was imagined around a core gameplay mechanic: the manipulation of Energy. Energy is easily gained by destroying your enemies, but it is just as easily lost when one of the ships is hit. Energy will allow you to merge your ships when the danger is too present. Energy is also required to activate your secondary attack and defense systems. Finally, Energy is intimately related to your final score, which enables you to build skills by improving the weapons of your ships. The only limitation to Energy recovery is yourself.
Two game modes are available. If you prefer short gaming sessions, you may browse each of the 24 chronicles individually. On the contrary, if you want to start a long session and if you like the challenge, you should try the Journey mode which takes you through all of the chronicles. Be careful though, if one of your ships is destroyed, it will become inaccessible until the end of the Journey. Will you be able to escape unscathed?
The musical playlist of Towards a Perilous Journey is composed of 24 meticulously selected tracks, in agreement with their respective authors.
Trailer music
This adventure, let's talk about it. Sometimes by day, sometimes by night, you will progress through colorful environments, tinged with a predominantly electro musical atmosphere. The adventure is composed of 24 different chronicles, each conceived around a dedicated music. Accuracy, dodge and coordination will be the main ingredients of this perilous journey.
Energy Management
This game was imagined around a core gameplay mechanic: the manipulation of Energy. Energy is easily gained by destroying your enemies, but it is just as easily lost when one of the ships is hit. Energy will allow you to merge your ships when the danger is too present. Energy is also required to activate your secondary attack and defense systems. Finally, Energy is intimately related to your final score, which enables you to build skills by improving the weapons of your ships. The only limitation to Energy recovery is yourself.
Game Modes
Two game modes are available. If you prefer short gaming sessions, you may browse each of the 24 chronicles individually. On the contrary, if you want to start a long session and if you like the challenge, you should try the Journey mode which takes you through all of the chronicles. Be careful though, if one of your ships is destroyed, it will become inaccessible until the end of the Journey. Will you be able to escape unscathed?
Game Music Tracks
The musical playlist of Towards a Perilous Journey is composed of 24 meticulously selected tracks, in agreement with their respective authors.
- Andre Jetson - Fly (Vivaldi)
- Andre Jetson - Caprisqui (Vivaldi)
- Andre Jetson - Fly 2 (Vivaldi)
- Andre Jetson - Title (Vivaldi)
- Broke For Free - Night Owl (Directionless EP)
- Broke For Free - Day Bird (Directionless EP)
- Broke For Free - Calm The Fuck Down (Slam Funk)
- Broke For Free - The Great (Slam Funk)
- Broke For Free - Something Galactic (Something EP)
- Michett - Snap
- Nihilore - The Other (The Hermeneutic Circle)
- Nihilore - The Dining Dead (Titan)
- Nihilore - Captain Socrates (Titan)
- Pierlo - Venga Bus (Olivetti Prodest)
- Pierlo - Deleuze (Olivetti Prodest)
- Pierlo - Barbarian (Olivetti Prodest)
- Simon Mathewson - Metal (Some dance tracks)
- Six Umbrellas - Rise (Ad Astra)
- Six Umbrellas - Monster (The Psychedelic And)
- Six Umbrellas - The Psychedelic And (The Psychedelic And)
- Six Umbrellas - Zombie Disco (The Psychedelic And)
- Six Umbrellas - This Is For You (This Is For You)
- Stereofloat - Japanese Tunnel (Essentials)
- Stereofloat - Looper (Looper)
Trailer music
- Six Umbrellas - Runner (The Psychedelic And)
What Steam players say
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Towards a perilous journey is a free VR game that lets you fly ships on your hands through bullet hell like missions. It worked on my HTC Vive system, looked ok played ok, sounded ok. Very hard. Has a good choice of background music to listen to. Try this game, you might like it.2 found this helpful
Игра «Towards a Perilous Journey» — атмосферное приключение с элементами выживания и головоломок. Отличная графика, мрачная атмосфера и глубокий сюжет, раскрывающий тайны заброшенного мира. Геймплей требует внимательности: каждое решение влияет на развитие сюжета. Однако некоторые механики кажутся не до конца проработанными, а локации повторяются. Тем не менее, игра оставляет яркое впечатление благодаря погружению в атмосферу и оригинальному сценарию. Рекомендуется для любителей мрачных приключений.
"Towards a perilous journey" is quite a disaster... it's a VR exclusive "shoot 'em up" where you wave your hands around to control two ships that shoot from an oblique perspective (this perspective [i]never[/i] works in shoot 'em ups, but gets used whenever developers think they've cracked the problem and worked out how to make shmups into 3D blockbusters... and these developers are wrong every time they come up with this idea that no developer ever thought of before, several times a year). What do you do in the game? No music related gameplay, that's for sure, and it's unclear why the developer was misleading in their store blurb. You just wave your arms around in VR and look at crap graphics. I'm assuming you have the sound muted because the music is some of the most godawful crap I ever heard. Did the developer think they were going to get rich somehow by confusing Steam with Spotify??? The graphics here are particularly awful, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam. Quite an accomplishment. It's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and…
[h1]Before I played Towards a perilous journey, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
Free is good.
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