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Guide a robed traveler across desert ruins toward a distant mountain, gliding on cloth and signaling to passing players.
Released 11 Jun 2020
Glide Across Sand
Signal With Chimes
Explore Desert Ruins
Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.
Developed by thatgamecompany · Published by Annapurna Interactive
You play as a lone, cloaked traveler crossing a vast desert toward a distant mountain. With no spoken dialogue, the world’s ruins, images, and music offer clues to the journey.
Explore sandy slopes and ancient structures on foot, then jump and glide to cross gaps and reach higher ground. A short chime lets you interact with cloth elements in the environment.
You may encounter another traveler online. You can journey together and help each other, communicating only through chimes; traveling alone is also possible.
Reviewers often praise Journey’s striking landscapes, evocative music, quiet storytelling, and calm pace. Many describe meeting an anonymous player and helping one another through the journey as especially memorable. Some appreciate its brief, simple format, while others find the gameplay too sparse or wish it lasted longer; a few report audio problems in the PC version.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 14 |
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| Players | 1–2 |
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| Multiplayer | Journey supports single-player and online co-op. The store page states you can play alone or with a fellow traveler, and the listed Steam feature is Online Co-op. Reviews consistently describe seamless automatic matchmaking with anonymous random players, typically one companion at a time, with no text or voice chat and communication limited to chirps. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No multiplayer mod support is mentioned. Reviews mention unofficial workarounds to try to match with friends by entering the same area at the same time, but this is not described as modding. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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