Journals of the Unknown vs J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars
Journals of the Unknown
Journals of the Unknown is a hidden objects adventure game where you'll get to play an up-and-coming, investigative journalist who specializes in covering mysterious and deadly events from a witch hunt in Salem to the serial killings in the Wolf’s Labyrinth. Find and collect useful items in various hidden object scenes and locations, and get them analyzed to obtain clues. Interview or communicate with key characters in the story to uncover new revelations about the story at hand. Are you good enough to get to the bottom of the mystery and score that front-page spot on the magazine? Play Journals of the Unknown to find out!J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars
J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars is truly a game that's very unique. Despite its apparent appearance - it does look like "just another space sim", doesn't it? - the game is a fun and innovative, story-driven adventure game with a heavy dose of mystery added for good measure. In this game, you'll get to step into the spacesuit of Rachel Manners, a 35-year-old astrobiologist who initially embarked on a critical mission to explore and collect data on potentially habitable planets with a crew of of other elite and hand-picked scientists, but somehow, things went awry, and she found herself alone with J.U.L.I.A., the space probe's rather tempermental AI and Mobot, the reconnaissance robot.Driven by a need to know, you'll need to help Rachel search for clues which might potentially explain the mission's failure and the missing crew. You'll also get to travel to six widely varied planets where you can then get to work trying to reveal their secrets. There will be plenty of puzzles and mini-games in your journey as well just to give your brain some intense workout from time to time.
That said, the puzzles in the game can be a tad bit frustrating to solve, mainly because it's the sort of "trial and error" puzzle-type. So, unless you have a thing or two against this specific game mechanism, J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars is a really nice puzzle-adventure game to buy and play.