Journey vs Limbo
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.
Limbo
Limbo is a platformer with some really hard (yet rewarding when solved) logic-based puzzles and a melancholic atmosphere mainly due to its shadowy world and graphics. In this game, you play as a boy who ventures into Limbo in hopes of finding his sister and learning her fate. However, like any adventure, you can definitely expect plenty of challenges and obstacles along the way.Limbo, like Inside, is a puzzle-platform game that can get increasingly very difficult and some of which may require a lot of trial and error to solve. So, if you're up for a brain-teasing challenge, you might enjoy this game.