Old Man's Journey

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Price: $8
Old Man’s Journey takes around two hours to complete and makes the most of that time, showering players in an array of lovely images and sounds while also giving them some fun manipulation puzzles to solve. I left this beautifully animated countryside having felt that the journey was indeed one worth taking.
-- As reviewed by GameInformer Old Man's Journey
77

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 5 expert reviews
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    4
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    1
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7.6

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Expert reviews and ratings

75

Sometimes you find yourself with games that are truly hard to evaluate. Not because they aren't good, but even saying too much will spoil the experience. That is the pickle I found myself in with Old Man's Journey. Broken Rules' latest journey, which...

By nintendoworldreport.com on
80

Old Man’s Journey takes around two hours to complete and makes the most of that time, showering players in an array of lovely images and sounds while also giving them some fun manipulation puzzles to solve. I left this beautifully animated countryside having felt that the journey was indeed one worth taking.

By GameInformer on
80

Impressive effort with a few noticeable problems holding it back. Won't astound everyone, but is worth your time and cash. How we score:  The Destructoid Reviews...

By Destructoid on
70

There are lovely moments in Old Man's Journey - moments when you run your mouse over a scene and the scene registers your mouse's presence, allowing you to swish wind through the trees, knock open the shutters on a house, or jingle fairy lights strung across the branches of a tree. As a whole, though, I found it beautiful but quietly non-engaging - like one of those children's books that's so delicate and pretty and calculated that you never really reach for them anymore.

By EuroGamer on
80

The result is a game that reminds me of a picture postcard, or maybe a whimsical poem written by a friend on a long vacation. Old Man’s Journey is sweet, meandering and undemanding, a pleasant while-away that's full of feeling, at least for as long as the wandering lasts.

By Polygon on

Old Man's Journey feels a lot like a children's book - one of those beautiful ones, with huge illustrations brightly printed on decent paper. The kind a certain kind of person might not really want to read with actual children, who would spill things,...

By eurogamer.net on