The Sojourn

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A nice puzzle game. Beautiful graphics. A lot quite abstract in nature. Does what good puzzle games should do - leaves you to find for yourself how the mechanics work without a too-heavy helping hand. There IS a story - but it's another thing that isn't given to you on a plate. I'm only half way through now and I've got some theories but that's all they are - theories. The only niggle I have with the game is that there are puzzles where you're going to have to try lots of different things to find the solution. And every time you have to do that you usually have to go right to the start of that puzzle. An "undo" feature would have been nice. But it's not a game killer! I did manage to 100% this one. So all the little ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ were just that and by the end I could avoid most of the backtracking as I got more used to how the puzzles usually work. I missed some of the "scroll" puzzles but (MINOR SPOILER ALERT!!!) there's an opportunity to complete all of them just before the end sequence.

I had to look up the word Sojourn one day and stumbled upon this game. It's a good puzzle game. The mechanics are introduced gradually and intuitevely, before a new mechanic is introduced you have already mastered the ones that came before. A lot of merit puzzles posed quite the challenge and it was exhilarating to solve them. Not gonna lie, the game felt a little tedious at times. Despite the 11 hour play time it took me several years to complete the game. I would boot it up from time to time to challenge myself intellectually, but after a few puzzles I would get off the game and not touch it for a while. Long-winded puzzles that require a lot of time to actually perform the solution were very rare, which is a massive W in my book. However, the lack of a running button still added to the annoyance when I had to reset a puzzle and redo everything from scratch. In the background a story is told throught statues with themes of knowledge and the virtue of thinking for oneself. I thought the art was beautiful and the little quotes that you get for solving merit puzzles really elevated the atmosphere. Good game.

Pretty good game. I don't know why so many negative reviews maybe because some levels are tedious and you need to think outside the box in order to beat them. Overall I had a great experience. Also, I think I cheesed some challenges at the end of the game.

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

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.

Slow, tedious puzzles that are generally one note, combined with sophistry and unexamined beliefs on levels previously thought left in the 1600s. In the first hour and a half of gameplay there are two decent puzzles, with the rest being uninteresting reskins of the same tutorial puzzles. Combined with a slow walking speed, this puzzle game is frankly not worth your time