Journey vs Osu!
Journey
Journey is literally a quintessential "artsy" adventure game. Why so? Well, the game puts you in the shoes of a mysterious robed figure who you will control throughout your adventure across beautiful, quiet and mostly desert landscapes. Each landscape provides players with a puzzle to solve that will allow them to move on to the next scene, though players can simply roam around the place and drink in the gorgeous visuals.There isn't a lot of buttons in the game and that's fine enough since you really don't need much to solve the puzzles, but personally, I'm incredibly intrigued by the Sing function. Although it is used to solve certain puzzles, most of the time you'll probably be using it idly while your character is travelling. Depending on how long you press the button and how fast you do so, you can actually create amazing little tunes that you'd love to have it recorded down and turned into perhaps a ringtone or something.
That said, Journey is a game that's so much more than composing music and solving puzzles. It is a journey (like its namesake) to help the robed figure discover who he/she is and to help you figure out what's happened in the game world, resulting in the sprawling desert that spans most of the game.
Osu!
Osu! is a fun rhythm game reminiscent of the popular Nintendo DS game Elite Beat Agents. However, unlike the game that inspired it, Osu! is completely free to play. In addition to online rankings, replays, as well as chat and multiplayer capabilities, Osu! provides creative players a beatmap editor as well. The selection of available songs is also incredibly extensive, especially with the many player-created beatmaps, allowing the game to persist even long after its launch.This free to play game certainly sets the bars high for any game of its genre so if you love rhythm games, you'll want to play Osu!