Old Man’s Journey review A game with a happiness gameplay but darkness story

P_DARK_M
3 min readOct 10, 2021

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story Old man’s journey score: 8.0 | Platform: Win, Mac, IOS, Android | Publisher: Broken Rules Developer: Broken Rules | Release Date: May 18,

2017 Old Man’s Journey is an adventure indie puzzle video game developed and published by Broken Rules. The game was released for Android, iOS, macOS and Windows in 2017, the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in 2018 and the Xbox One in 2019

Its weekend and you need a game to play but not every game because you don’t have much time to play; you need a game with short gameplay and great story with wonderful scenery Old man’s journey can be good for what you want a game which about an old man who start traveling for something which you can know after you play it

Story
(spoil warning)

It was a beautiful sunny day like any other day before the post man coming and everything changed after post man give a letter from someone who you will know at the end of game After you (old man) read that letter, you start a great long travel to somewhere special you realize what happened in past and where did the journey start and the game choose the best way to show you why we are here and why your travel is so important You can be happy, sad, excited and other feelings by locations or dreams which you see when you sleep while you are traveling After all the end of story can be different for anyone, I don’t mean that it has different ending, no; I mean what you feel after you play the end chapter of game, may be different for some gamers.

Control

Old man’s journey is a puzzle point and clicker game so because of this, we can’t have very special movements or we don’t need keyboard to play it but the game could make some different puzzles and sometimes hard to solve them and this is how you won’t be tired of just clicking something in game

Environment & gameplay

The environment of game is very complete. It’s include of everything which a game like this need You are going to pass of many different locations like: rivers, cities, mountains, scary locations, underwater and … Usually the gameplay of puzzle games can make you bored because you only do the same puzzles in different difficulties but you don’t have to be worry, this game is not like those and you will complete many different puzzles in your journey and you won’t feel bored of completing puzzles because you like to know what will happen next as soon as it can be After all, all games have some problems in them and old man’s journey has, too you can’t feel these problems while you are playing because you drowning in beauty of game and gameplay but you will after you finished the game

Other parts of game

other things in game like music parts are very great and I don’t want to talk about them because I don’t have enough experience about them After all, old man’s journey is game which you can play to enjoy of great art and scenery and think about the story at the same time

Hope you enjoy of this review

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