Journey vs Surviving High School
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.
Surviving High School
Surviving High School is a visual novel game by EA Games developed with only one intention in mind - to let you create your very own high school drama at Centerscore High through your interactions with the game's many intriguing characters including some cliche ones like the jock and the cheerleader. The different storylines you can uncover through the dialogue options you chose allows for multiple replays as you try to find all the endings in the game. There are also tons of fun mini-games for you to enjoy. The game is also quite similar to games like Episode or Choices in the respect that the story in this game is released on an per-episode basis.Unfortunately, Surviving High School is nolonger around - the game has been shuttered since 2014. However, if you're interested to play something similar, you might enjoy Episode, Choices or any of the games listed below.