Journey vs The Blacklist: Conspiracy
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.
The Blacklist: Conspiracy
The Blacklist: Conspiracy is an investigative-themed hidden object adventure game based on the popular TV show, The Blacklist, that seems to merge the appeal of law enforcement-style hidden object games like Criminal Case with the secret and often morally-ambiguous world of spies, secret agents, and the FBI. In this game, you play as an FBI agent who has been tracking down the notorious terrorist organization known as The Invisible Hand. However, one day, you unexpectedly received help from a known Wanted criminal, Raymond Reddington, which you acted upon, due to the urgency of the tip-off, without thinking about the consequences of receiving such intel. As such, you end up trapped between doing what's right with the bureau while accepting aid and info from surprisingly reliable yet shady people like Raymond and his associates.Gameplay-wise, The Blacklist: Conspiracy feels a lot like Criminal Case, but it does do some things differently, such as adding in boosts and special timed challenges for scenes from time to time. You'll also sometimes find yourself in the hot seat in an interrogation where you'll be asked about important clues and findings you get from a previous case. Most interesting of all, the game often presents you with a critical moment in the storyline where you get to make a decision so important that it will change the course of your storyline. Most of these moments are moral dilemmas so there isn't really a black-and-white answer.
Sounds like fun? Well, The Blacklist: Conspiracy is free to download and play on all mobile devices, be it Android, iOS or Windows.