
The Journey Back is a first person exploration experience. You gain consciousness after being involved in a car crash. Explore a colorful, stylized 3d world, solve puzzles and find out what happened along the way.
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Languages: English, Dutch, German
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Sorry, this game is just not good. The puzzles are way too easy, mostly "fetch item and insert someplace" or "use obvious clue on panel around the next corner". Not very entertaining.
Hayatımda böyle boktan bir oyun oynamadım çok samimi söylüyorum almayın
Definitely buggy, even with spelling errors, cliche topic, and story that is obvious from the Steam descirption and the game title. However, being a low-budget, one-man project, as well as inexpensive and short, it offers more than it takes. It is a satisfying gaming experience borrowing puzzle elements from The Witness and level design from The Beginner's Guide (with a more naive approach but still admirable). For sure it can take much much polishing but still it is a good first step for the developer and a nice 1hour to spend for the player.
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Hours played at review time, across 34 reviews with recorded playtime.
Very simple puzzles, very bare bones story. Don't know if it's a dying simulator or if the kid wakes up fine in the hospital bed at the end, but I didn't care enough to find out. The game either glitched or suffered such a massive difficulty spike that I got stuck and could no longer progress. The rotating room with the levers. The controls simply do not function in a logical fashion. If you can't tell the difference between a bug and intentional level design, in either case, the game has failed.
1時間と少しでクリアの雰囲気ゲー 妹を探しに、比較的簡単なパズルを解きながら先へ進むという流れ 英語が苦手なのでストーリーや背景の深読みは出来なかったけど 短いながらも美しい音楽とあたたかみのあるグラフィックを堪能できたので 値段あたいの価値はあると思います アート系ゲームが好きな方やリラックスしたい方は是非
Great little game. Loved the puzzles and the art-style.
I dont get the plot but I still cry.
An interesting little game, that I feel is more of an exploration game than a puzzle game. The art was unique and interesting, and it was a pretty neat world to move around in. None of the puzzles were particularly challenging, I would have liked to see more from them as a matter of fact - there were some neat ideas I would've like to see explored more. But for a couple bucks it's a cool experience. I think the game could have benefited from some tightening up of the controls, and a sensitivity slider.
Ein kurzweiliges Spiel (45min) in dem man die ganze Zeit Rätsel lösen muss um Türen zu öffnen. Nett gemacht mit einfacher Grafik. Die Rätsel sollten mit den Tipps im Spiel von jedem zu lösen sein.
I would not recommend this game for anyone who tends to get motion sickness. Your field of view wheels around in response to the movement of your mouse which gave me terrible motion sickness. I did like how you could switch between panning the camera and interacting with objects. Unfortunately, you can only move forward, backward and sideways; the only way to turn was to use the camera panning function. I can't say much else about the game as I only managed to play for about 30 minutes before the motion sickness became overwhelming. From what little I was able to see, the puzzles were too easy for my taste, but considering the price, it seems fair. I also thought the premise and the environments were interesting. I enjoyed the relaxing piano soundtrack at first, but it quickly became monotonous and I had to turn of the music. I did love that this was an option in settings. I recognize that not everyone has this issue, so if motion sickness is not an issue with you, you may enjoy this game. I just wanted to put this review out there for people like me who may experience this kind of problem.
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