Our Journey: The Silent Voice

This is a colorful and (largely) fun co-op puzzle game of leading your friend (or being led) through various puzzles to get to the end together using only cryptic cards as clues. A bit "Mysterium" meets "Bokura". One note that I'd HIGHLY suggest to prevent frustration: at the final chapter where the roles are forcibly swapped between body/spirit: USE the option to swap back. Otherwise, the person who was to that point doing all the following and had no idea about what the various "rumors" or guiding mechanics were; will be completely baffled and frustrated when the game throws ALL of those at them at once with no explanation. So, for the sake of everyone's sanity: Just swap roles after the forced change so that the person who was the guide from the start is still the guide and happiness will be had by all! :D Very fun game (especially with that small adjustment for the ending!)

Our Journey: The Silent Voice is an abstract and accessible cozy treat for 2-players to co-op. The best way to explain it is if one person controlled the body while another controlled the mind (or soul in this case), with no words to communicate. You have a set of symbols, or colors to somehow communicate the directions you need to go with each other. Your goal is to solve puzzles to reunite with each other. [b]Upside[/b] -Cozy colors, relaxing music and replay value where you take each others' roles make the game very viable. Not to mention, no two paths are the same. -Complex rogue-lite growth -Puzzles for the Spirit player to solve and while waiting, actionable things for the body player to pursue (collect coins, find chests) [b]Downside[/b] -Requires you and your partner to be in two different places, with two different copies of the game -My co-op partner had the game crash completely several times, and had to reload -Even though there is a twitch mode, and you can turn it on, when you create a lobby the lobby code appears completely on screen. There should be a warning or the code should be blanked out so we can copy and paste it without having randos joining [b]Verdict[/b] I had a lot of fun with this game, as did my co-op partner. Some achievements open to both players while certain achievements can only be unlocked via one or the other player, making the role reversal almost necessary if you want to complete the game. This, along with the randomized maps, raises replay value immensely! It also have a varying degree of good value in the hands of children and adults alike for problem solving and communication. Wishful thinking: The game might even benefit from a random lobby with timed input screens, so strangers could have fun being in either roles for quick, silent puzzle solving. It might be dangerous fun.

I really wanted to recommend this game since I was looking forward to it since the demo. But It's a case too high expactations. The demo was great as a glimpse into the game, and I thought the full version will have a lot more complex puzzles for both body and mind (both players). But instead the game didn't really "go anywhere" and the puzzles were not challenging at all. And if you play the body, you don't even get to expirence any real puzzle, so you just sit there until you get clues from the mind that take 0.5 second to descipher. Eventually you reach the last part of the game where you switch roles at the worst timing possible - when the puzzles actually becoming challenging. So now you lack expirence at desciphering the puzzles, and you get them at a MUCH higher difficulty. The game is also a lot shorter than i expected, we finished in about 3 to 3:30 hours. But it's not very expensive so I guess this is an acceptable length. For the Team behind the game: I hope you don't take this critique as "you've made a bad game". The game is very charming, and I love the idea behind it. And I relly hope your next project will have bigger scale. You are very capable!

I just had to drop a quick review for this game because it completely surprised me. I play a lot of co-op games, but usually, they are either too frantic or way too grindy. This game? Absolute vibes. ☕ The mechanics are incredibly straightforward, so even if your Player 2 isn't a "hardcore gamer," they’ll get it instantly. But don't let the simple look fool you—the puzzles actually require you to sync up your brains.

Just love it. The art is cool, the music is nice and the communication system with cards is very clever and enjoyable to play with. Had a lot of fun playing it with my wife, we didn't finish it yet but we surely will!

最後の謎解きがいまいちスッキリしなかった。

Un mix entre Mysterium, Dixit et Concept à jouer en duo. Toujours aussi plaisant de faire comprendre sa logique et toujours aussi drôle de comprendre celle des autres ! Le jeu est très joli, je recommande !

Jeu très sympa, mécanique originale et bien implémentée. Réalisé en jouant le corps, dernière partie du jeu un peu compliquée pour certains tableaux (2 passés au hasard).

Le jeu est très sympa mais il manque cruellement de finition. Il crash à des endroits fixes (sur deux partie, toujours au même endroit et uniquement pour le joueur qui joue le body), pas mal de moments où le son se coupe de manière brut et la musique se remet d'elle même à fond de manière un peu random dans le jeu ( j'imagine que c'est déterministe mais le moment où je m'en suis aperçu c'est lorsqu'on doit la désactiver pour une énigme et qu'elle se réactive toute seule quelques écrans plus tard). Il y a des choses vraiment pas clair dans le jeu notamment la fin et ses énigmes qu'on a dû un peu brute force (Direction_Body inscrit à l'écran comme si c'était la ligne direct du code me fait dire qu'il y avait un problème). Bref, le principe du jeu est super et on a pas passé un mauvais moment mais clairement les bugs entachent énormément le ressenti final en plus de la fin qui est bizarre même si on peut faire de la branlette intellectuelle pour justifier certains trucs.

Un jeu au concept génial, très plaisant à faire et refaire en échangeant les positions ! Je conseil vivement de jouer le jeu de ne communiquer que via ce que propose le jeu pour renforcer l'immersion.